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		<title>Adding Metacoda Custom Tasks Capabilities for SAS Enterprise Guide</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Homes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2019 12:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When you install Metacoda Custom Tasks for use in SAS® Enterprise Guide® and the SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office you may find you don&#8217;t see the new menu items you expected in the Tools menu: There are 2 main reasons why they may be missing: 1) the custom tasks could not be loaded, perhaps due &#8230; <a href="/blogs/paul/2019/06/adding-metacoda-custom-tasks-capabilities-for-sas-enterprise-guide/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Adding Metacoda Custom Tasks Capabilities for SAS Enterprise Guide"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tracing Permissions for SAS Metadata Security</title>
		<link>/blogs/paul/2016/03/tracing-permissions-sas-metadata-security/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Homes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 04:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SAS Global Forum 2016 is just over 2 weeks away, and I&#8217;m really excited about showing a Permissions Tracer feature we&#8217;ll be releasing in the next version of our Metacoda Security Plug-ins. Metacoda is a SASGF sponsor again this year and we&#8217;ll be showing a preview of this new version at our Metacoda stand in &#8230; <a href="/blogs/paul/2016/03/tracing-permissions-sas-metadata-security/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Tracing Permissions for SAS Metadata Security"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Providing User Access to the SAS® BI Lineage Plug-in</title>
		<link>/blogs/paul/2013/12/sas-bi-lineage-user-access/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Homes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[SAS Management Console]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roles & Capabilities]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">/blogs/paul/?p=4649</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[I was asked yesterday whether it was possible to use the SAS&#174; Management Console BI Lineage plug-in to provide non-administrators with the ability to review BI Lineage scans (as previously run by administrators). The BI Lineage plug-in can be used to do impact analysis for BI content (reports, information maps etc.) in a similar way &#8230; <a href="/blogs/paul/2013/12/sas-bi-lineage-user-access/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Providing User Access to the SAS® BI Lineage Plug-in"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Removing Custom Task Capability Metadata</title>
		<link>/blogs/paul/2013/12/removing-custom-task-capability-metadata/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Homes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[SAS Open Metadata API]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metacoda Security Plug-ins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[omitoolsmc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roles & Capabilities]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">/blogs/paul/?p=4571</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I saw a question on the SAS&#174; Communities site from Nick about Registering Custom Tasks and managing the capability metadata that&#8217;s used for role based access control on those custom tasks. I found Nick&#8217;s question especially interesting because we have some free Metacoda Custom Tasks and those techniques can also be used to control &#8230; <a href="/blogs/paul/2013/12/removing-custom-task-capability-metadata/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Removing Custom Task Capability Metadata"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Promoting SAS Security Metadata (in Custom Repositories)</title>
		<link>/blogs/paul/2013/04/promoting-sas-security-metadata-in-custom-repositories/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Homes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[SAS Management Console]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metadata Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metadata Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roles & Capabilities]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">/blogs/paul/?p=3835</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Did you know that with SAS® 9.3 you can promote (export/import) SAS metadata packages containing users, groups, roles, and ACTs, just like you can with Jobs, Tables, Libraries, Stored Processes, Reports and Information Maps? I needed to do this myself a few weeks ago. I wanted to promote some groups, roles and ACTs from an &#8230; <a href="/blogs/paul/2013/04/promoting-sas-security-metadata-in-custom-repositories/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Promoting SAS Security Metadata (in Custom Repositories)"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Protecting your Metadata Protections: Part 2</title>
		<link>/blogs/paul/2013/03/protecting-your-metadata-protections-part-2/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Homes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[SAS Metadata Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metacoda Security Plug-ins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roles & Capabilities]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">/blogs/paul/?p=4214</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[In a guest post on blogs.sas.com in January, I wrote about protecting your metadata protections. In that post I said that &#8220;Ideally, a SAS® metadata security plan should address both ACT permissions and access to the Authorization Manager.&#8221; and went on to explain a method for addressing Access Control Template (ACT) permissions. In this second &#8230; <a href="/blogs/paul/2013/03/protecting-your-metadata-protections-part-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Protecting your Metadata Protections: Part 2"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Role-Based Access to Metacoda Security Plug-ins in SAS Management Console</title>
		<link>/blogs/paul/2012/02/metacoda-security-plug-ins-role-based-access/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Homes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Metacoda Security Plug-ins]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post explains how to provide role-based access to Metacoda Security Plug-ins in the SAS&#174; Management Console (versions 9.2 and 9.3). Update 01Sep2023: The method described in this post is relevant for Metacoda Plug-ins version 5 and earlier. Metacoda Plug-ins version 6 and above, available since 2016, allow a much more flexible approach where you &#8230; <a href="/blogs/paul/2012/02/metacoda-security-plug-ins-role-based-access/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Role-Based Access to Metacoda Security Plug-ins in SAS Management Console"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Baseline Security Metadata for a new SAS&#174; 9.3 Deployment</title>
		<link>/blogs/paul/2011/11/baseline-sas93-security-metadata/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Homes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[SAS Metadata Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accounts/Logins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metacoda Security Plug-ins]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;m reviewing SAS&#174; metadata security implementations, I find it useful to have baseline security metadata to refer to. This baseline documents the initial state of metadata security (ACTs, ACEs, users, groups, roles, capabilities, protected objects, logins and internal logins) for a fresh new SAS software deployment. When reviewing a SAS installation I can then &#8230; <a href="/blogs/paul/2011/11/baseline-sas93-security-metadata/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Baseline Security Metadata for a new SAS&#174; 9.3 Deployment"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Capability Reviewer Preview: who has access to a capability and how?</title>
		<link>/blogs/paul/2011/04/capability-reviewer-preview/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Homes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Metacoda Security Plug-ins]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SAS 9.2]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The next version of the Metacoda Security Plug-ins includes a new Capability Reviewer. This new feature provides the ability to review who has access to a specific capability and by what paths a user, group or role acquires that capability. As an example of how this is useful I&#8217;ll step through a scenario where we &#8230; <a href="/blogs/paul/2011/04/capability-reviewer-preview/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Capability Reviewer Preview: who has access to a capability and how?"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>User Reviewer V2: Sneak Peek</title>
		<link>/blogs/paul/2011/03/user-reviewer-v2-sneak-peek/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Homes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Metacoda Security Plug-ins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roles & Capabilities]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a SAS platform administrator who manages a SAS metadata security implementation then you might be interested in this sneak peek of some of the enhancements in the next version of our Metacoda Security Plug-ins (custom plug-ins that can be installed into the SAS Management Console). We&#8217;ve been hard at work updating our plug-ins &#8230; <a href="/blogs/paul/2011/03/user-reviewer-v2-sneak-peek/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "User Reviewer V2: Sneak Peek"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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