These are some of my favourite papers from SAS Global Forum 2011. As a platform administrator and metadata fan I am obviously biased to a specific subset of papers. I’m sure there were many other great papers at the conference, but these are the ones that I liked the most based on my own interests. :)
- Best Practice Implementation of SAS® Metadata Security at Customer Sites in Denmark
Cecily Hoffritz & Johannes Jørgensen
SAS Global Forum 2011 Paper 376-2011 - PDF available from http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/376-2011.pdf
- Single Sign-On Configuration and Troubleshooting for SAS® 9.2 Enterprise BI Web Applications
Stuart J Rogers & Heesun Park
SAS Global Forum 2011 Paper 365-2011 - PDF available from http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/365-2011.pdf
- Using SAS® on UNIX with Multiple Active Directories as Authentication Providers
Jan Bigalke
SAS Global Forum 2011 Paper 369-2011 - PDF available from http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/369-2011.pdf
- Understanding the Anatomy of a SAS® Deployment: What’s in My Server Soup?
Mark Schneider, Donna Bennett, & Connie Robison
SAS Global Forum 2011 Paper 363-2011 - PDF available from http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/363-2011.pdf
- Configuration and Tuning Guidelines for SAS®9 in Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Margaret Crevar
SAS Global Forum 2011 Paper 370-2011 - PDF available from http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/370-2011.pdf
- Considerations for Implementing a Highly Available or Disaster Recovery Environment
Diane Hatcher & Jochen Kirsten
SAS Global Forum 2011 Paper 358-2011 - PDF available from http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/358-2011.pdf
I’ll definitely be recommending these papers in my SAS platform admin consulting and training work, and have done so a number of times already. They offer a great supplement to the standard SAS documentation and provide lots of additional background info for some of the common types of platform admin related questions I hear like:
- “How can I find out more about SAS architecture, what all the components are, and how they fit together?”
- “What’s involved in setting up single sign-on for SAS installations?”
- “What do we need to know about optimizing the performance of SAS software?”
- “How do we secure our SAS content, what are the recommendations, and what should we watch out for?”
- “What happens if we get a hardware failure on our SAS Metadata Server? What things do we need to consider in disaster recovery planning?”
I’ve also added these papers to my reading list so I can find them easily when I need to point someone at them.
Thanks to all the authors for taking the time to prepare, present and publish them to share with the SAS community.
This list of SGF papers is a great resource for SAS Administrators. I’ve included a link to your post in the June edition of the SAS Tech Report. Thanks!