Getting Technical

Recently I was set up with a system without the correct SAP systems on my ‘logon pad’. This made it a little hard to access the systems I needed but here is the tip.

Use the sapgui.exe application to access the system you need.
Simply (from windows) hit the start button and then ‘Run’ and then type:

sapgui [appserver-domain] [system number]

If you add the switch /WAN it will treat it as a low speed connection.

One of the benefits of this is that it doesn’t start the SAP Logon application which will save you about 20M of memory. The downside is you don’t get the application in your tray that shows all the systems you are logged on to when you right click it.

More information here [SAP Service Marketplace link - credentials required]

It has been a long time coming this year, but I can now confirm that I will be attending TechEd in Vienna.

Vienna - I'll be there.

It will be a flying visit as I fly out  Thursday night so not much time to enjoy the highlights of the city.

So what will TechEd hold for me?

I have planned a few sessions to attend but there will be lots of SAP Mentor meetings , Demo Jam (SAP Entries notwithstanding), Hacker Night, catching up with virtual friends in the flesh and a keynote or two.

I note that Leo Apotheker will not be speaking. That is interesting all by itself.

The wonderful Community Network people have produced these badges and I love this one. “Come See Me Speak”. I know it is meant for people who have official sessions but you could come just to see me speak. I will be talking after all.  See you in Vienna.

Speaking at Vienna (well I am not a mute)

I was up for the go live of the Wolfram|Alpha site this morning and there is a new ‘Fail Whale‘ that I am sure everyone will be talking about soon.

If a blog post is less than 140 characters long should it have been a tweet?

It’s the 31st, so that means the year is already 1/12 old so excuse me for not doing this earlier, I have been in hiding from everything that looked like a laptop. Well, not for all of January. I am now back at work and very busy again.

I have also been focussing on completing a couple of tax returns. They are now complete. Not that I could possibly forget. There are several billboards on my way to work reminding me about JAN 31 in 1.5m high letters. And the kind folks at HMRC rang my office to remind me that I needed to get my return in. A new approach they said. How kind.

Anyway that explains my lack of activity on this blog. Well, at least it is a plausable excuse. You buying it? No? Oh well…

Last year was a great year of achievement and this year looks to build on that.

My current client has already extended my contract, always a good thing.

I am looking forward to a good year.

I trust you are too.

Technorati Tags: Happy New Year, Tax, Contracting

Have you been following the SAPfacts site? A winner has been declared.  I noticed that Eddy came second with “SAP Stands for Shai Agassi Products“. I submitted “SAP stands for the Shai Agassi Protocol” but was rejected because Eddy got there first. Oh well.

Well done everyone. It was a great bit of fun!

This is a lovely link to my Technorati Profile.

 Enjoy.