Operating system image build and management best practices?

how do we create gold images for servers/desktops,
Best practices image management,
How do we control changes?
How do we prevent unauthorized changes (installation of software)?
What tools we can use for above.

I use MDT 2013 Lite Touch to create my images
http://www.gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.ie/2014/03/create-customised-reference-image-with.html
You should use in-built ConfigMgr Role Based Access Control to manage images afterwards (look at the Operating System Deployment Manager role).
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Oracle Identity Manager - automated builds and deployment/Best practice

Is there a best practice as for directory structure for repository in version control system?
Do you recommend to keep the whole xellerate folder + separate structure for xml files and java code? (Considering fact that multiple upgrades can occur over the time)
How custom code is merged to the main application?
How deployment to Weblogic application server occur? (Do you create your own script or there is an out of the box script that can be reused)
I would appreciate any guidance regarding this matter.
Thank you for your help.

Hi,
You can use any IDE (Eclipse, Netbeans) for development.
For, Getting started with OIM API's using Eclipse, please follow these steps
1. Creating the working folder structure
2. Adding the jar/configuration files needed
3. Creating a java project in Eclipse
4. Writing a sample java class that will call the API's
5. Debugging the code with Eclipse debugger
6. API Reference
1. Creating the working folder structure
The following structure must be created in the home directory of your project (Separate project home for each project):
<PROJECT_HOME>
\ bin
\ config
\ ext
\ lib
\ log
\ src
The folders will store:
src - source code of your project
bin - compiled code of your project
config - configuration files for the API and any of your custom configuration files
ext - external libraries (3'rd party)
lib - OIM API libraries
log - local logging folder
2. Adding the jar/configuration files needed
The easiest way to perform this task is to copy all the files from the OIM Design Console
folders respectively in the <PROJECT_HOME> folders.
That is:
<XEL_DESIGN_CONSOLE_HOME>/config -> <PROJECT_HOME>/config
<XEL_DESIGN_CONSOLE_HOME>/ext -> <PROJECT_HOME>/ext
<XEL_DESIGN_CONSOLE_HOME>/lib -> <PROJECT_HOME>/lib
3. Creating a java project in Eclipse
+ Start Eclipse platform
+ Select File->New->Project from the menu on top
+ Select Java Project and click Next
+ Type in a project name (For example OIM_API_TEST)
+ In the Contents panel select "Create project from existing source",
click Browse and select your <PROJECT_HOME> folder
+ Click Finish to exit the wizard
At this point the project is created and you should be able to browse
trough it in Package Explorer.
Setting src in the build path:
+ In Package Explorer right click on project name and select Properties
+ Select Java Build Path in the left and Source tab in the right
+ Click Add Folder and select your src folder
+ Click OK
4. Writing a sample Java class that will call the API's
+ In Package Explorer, right click on src and select New->Class.
+ Type the name of the class as FirstAPITest
+ Click Finish
Put the following sample code in the class:
import java.util.Hashtable;
import com.thortech.xl.util.config.ConfigurationClient;
import Thor.API.tcResultSet;
import Thor.API.tcUtilityFactory;
import Thor.API.Operations.tcUserOperationsIntf;
public class FirstAPITest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try{
System.out.println("Startup...");
System.out.println("Getting configuration...");
ConfigurationClient.ComplexSetting config =
ConfigurationClient.getComplexSettingByPath("Discovery.CoreServer");
System.out.println("Login...");
Hashtable env = config.getAllSettings();
tcUtilityFactory ioUtilityFactory = new tcUtilityFactory(env,"xelsysadm","welcome1");
System.out.println("Getting utility interfaces...");
tcUserOperationsIntf moUserUtility =
(tcUserOperationsIntf)ioUtilityFactory.getUtility("Thor.API.Operations.tcUserOperationsIntf");
Hashtable mhSearchCriteria = new Hashtable();
mhSearchCriteria.put("Users.First Name", "System");
tcResultSet moResultSet = moUserUtility.findUsers(mhSearchCriteria);
for (int i=0; i<moResultSet.getRowCount(); i++){
moResultSet.goToRow(i);
System.out.println(moResultSet.getStringValue("Users.Key"));
System.out.println("Done");
}catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
Replace the "welcome1" with your own password.
+ save the class
To run the example class perform the following steps:
+ Click in the menu on top Run, and run "Create, Manage, and run Configurations" wizard. (In the menu, this can be either "run..." or "Open Run Dialog...", depending on the version of Eclipse used).
+ Right click on Java Application and select New
+ Click on arguments tab
+ Paste the following in VM arguments box:
-Djava.security.manager -DXL.HomeDir=.
-Djava.security.policy=config\xl.policy
-Djava.security.auth.login.config=config\authwl.conf
-DXL.ClientClassName=%CLIENT_CLASS%
(please replace the URL, in ./config/xlconfig.xml, to your application server if not running on localhost or not using the default port)
+ Click Apply
+ Click Run
At this point your class is executed. If everything is correct, you will see the following output in the Eclipse console:
Startup...
Getting configuration...
Login...
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (com.opensymphony.oscache.base.Config).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
Getting utility interfaces...
1
Done
Regards,
Sunny Ajmera

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I have a MAC, Ive just installed OS10.10.3 operating system in it and I can't open Photoshop. This is a wide spread problem that involves Java and Photoshop software. Since you produce both these products , I turn toward you to direct me to the best "Fix"?

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Is a system copy to development a best practice?

("Refresh", as I use it here, refers to a system copy.)
We typically refresh our sandbox and pre-production test systems from production. Not often, since its a non-trivial amount of work (although our functional/business teams don't seem to realize that ), but we've got the process down. The production DBs also total around 8-9 TB, and its not practical to store too many copies of that. The full environment includes the core ERP 6 system (HR, PY, FI, CO, parts of PLM), SRM 5, BI 7, and two portals (employee and vendor), each with development, QA/test, pre-production, and production.
We have never refreshed our development environment, mainly since that version history and test data.
We recently had a project consultant request that we refresh development from production, and claim doing so was a "best practice". The project might significantly reconfigure FI, but everything else is out of scope.
Although refreshing the development system/environment can be done, should it be? What kind of circumstances might make it a good idea? Is it considered it a "best practice" by others? Why?
(Cross posted to the [ASUG Systems Management forum|http://hosted.jivesoftware.asug.com/community/sig_communities/business_integration__technology_%26_infrastructure/systems_management_sig].)
Thanks,
Dave

Well i cannot view the ASUG discussion but here is my 2 cents:
cons:
- versions history has to be saved prior to copy
- cost (additional disk space, backups, cpu/memory)
- the production data will age pretty fast, so the copy has to be done on a regular basis
- lots of interfaces to other systems will have to be corrected, risk of connecting to prod systems during the copy process
- the dev system will be unavailable for several days during the copy
pros:
- real data on the prod system, no need to manually generate data
- most performance issues can be discovered at design time, given the hardware is comparable to the prod system
In my opinion regularly copying the prod system to dev is not best practice. Personally i would never do it because of the cost and amount of work needed to do it.
Best regards, Michael

Powershell commands to change operating system image in task sequence

Hello,
I am looking for a way to script changing a task sequence to use a different OS image file. So far the only thing I can find using the powershell MDT module is the "import-mdttasksequence" command, but it looks like that can only create a whole
new task sequence.
My end goal is to automate our master image builds and the last step is to take the captured master wim file, import it into the Operating Systems folder, and then update the associated custom image task sequence to use that new OS image. With
"import-mdttasksequence" I have to create a new task sequence with a new ID, when I already have one present that would be easier to just update to point to a different OS image. I do not see anyway to edit task sequence steps using the powershell
module.
Is this possible? Maybe using Get-Item to get the OS GUID and then editing the task sequence XML file directly?
MDT 2013
Server 2008 R2
Regards,
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If I understand correctly, you can use the same name for the captured WIM file? Then you can just copy it to the operating systems and it will be picked up by your TS.
I've found this
thread on the forums that probably has your solution in it.
From that thread:
I now capture to the Captures folder and name the WIM file after the task sequence ID. So for example, my "Update Windows 8 General Purpose" task sequence with ID "8_GP" now creates "\\server\DeploymentShare$\Captures\8_GP.wim"
In the Scripts folder on the deployment share I created "Relocate.cmd" with the following contents:
MOVE /Y "%DEPLOYDRIVE%\Captures\%1.wim" "%DEPLOYDRIVE%\Operating Systems\%1"
And finally, I added a step at the end of my task sequences that runs this custom command (no
Start in value defined):
cmd /c %SCRIPTROOT%\relocate.cmd %TaskSequenceID%
This works great and MDT does in fact recognize the changed .wim file in Operating Systems and copies it to linked deployment shares, so no worries there.
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FAILURE ( 5640 ): FALSE: Verify File: \\SERVER\DeploymentShare\Operating Systems\Image 11-13-2014.wim\image.wim ERROR

Guys,
I need help with this error please. I have a WDS in building 13 and another 1 in building 31; Both servers have MDT 2013. At some point, both deployment shares were linked via MDT but I deleted that few days to solve some deployment share corruption in building
31 WDS.
Presently I have 2 32bit images (my 64bit images work fine) giving me the following MDT error in BUILDING 13 during the image deployment:
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Litetouch deployment failed, Return Code = -2147467259 0x80004005
Failed to run the action: Install Operating System.
Unknown error (Error:00001608; Source: Unknown)
The Execution of the group (Install) has failed and the execution has been aborted. An action failed....
Please note, BUILDING 13 deployment share is not linked to BUILDING 31 deployment share. I don't understand why this error is pointing to BUILDING 31 deployment share.
\\BUILDING 31 SERVER\DeploymentShare\Operating Systems\Image 11-13-2014.wim\image.wim has been removed. I need the task sequence to point to
\\BUILDING 13 SERVER\DeploymentShare\Operating Systems\Image 11-13-2014.wim. BUILDING 13 deployment Share task sequences are pointing to
\\BUILDING 13 SERVER\DeploymentShare as well as my CustomSettings.ini and Bootstrap.ini
1. I have diskpart and cleaned the disc, no luck.
2. I have checked the Install action for both images task sequences and even verified each action on both tasks and cant find any error.
3. I have re-generated the boot images and retyped
\\BUILDING 13 SERVER\DeploymentShare on its CustomSettings.ini and Bootstrap.ini
4. I am in the process of copying Image 11-13-2014.wim back to
\\BUILDING 31 SERVER\DeploymentShare\Operating Systems BUT again I don't understand why these task sequences are pointing to building 31. If this step doesn't work, I will restore both images from a backup and re-added them to building 13 MDT.
But I don't think these steps are the solution.I am out of ideas here...

I disabled McAfee AV, moved images boot files to a different location, regenerate boot images files in MDT, update deployment share, re-add boot files to WDS & refresh WDS. This works for me.

HT1338 Purchased a used macbook pro with Mountain Lion. My old Mac runs Snow Leopard is backed up to Time machine. How do I register the operating system to me and how do I use Time Machine to move my files to the new used computer?

Purchased a used macbook pro with Mountain Lion. My old Mac runs Snow Leopard is backed up to Time machine. How do I register the operating system to me and how do I use Time Machine to move my files to the new used computer?

If you look at the User Tips tab, you will find a write up on just this subject:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4053
The subject of buying/selling a Mac is quite complicated. Here is a guide to the steps involved. It is from the Seller's point of view, but easily read the other way too:
SELLING A MAC A
Internet Recovery, and Transferability of OS & iLife Apps
Selling an Old Mac:
• When selling an old Mac, the only OS that is legally transferable is the one that came preinstalled when the Mac was new. Selling a Mac with an upgraded OS isn't doing the new owner any favors. Attempting to do so will only result in headaches since the upgraded OS can't be registered by the new owner. If a clean install becomes necessary, they won't be able to do so and will be forced to install the original OS via Internet Recovery. Best to simply erase the drive and revert back to the original OS prior to selling any Mac.
• Additionally, upgrading the OS on a Mac you intend to sell means that you are leaving personally identifiable information on the Mac since the only way to upgrade the OS involves using your own AppleID to download the upgrade from the App Store. So there will be traces of your info and user account left behind. Again, best to erase the drive and revert to the original OS via Internet Recovery.
Internet Recovery:
• In the event that the OS has been upgraded to a newer version (i.e. Lion to Mountain Lion), Internet Recovery will offer the version of the OS that originally came with the Mac. So while booting to the Recovery Disk will show Mountain Lion as available for reinstall since that is the current version running, Internet Recovery, on the other hand, will only show Lion available since that was the OS shipped with that particular Mac.
• Though the Mac came with a particular version of Mac OS X, it appears that, when Internet Recovery is invoked, the most recent update of that version may be applied. (i.e. if the Mac originally came with 10.7.3, Internet Recovery may install a more recent update like 10.7.5)
iLife Apps:
• When the App Store is launched for the first time it will report that the iLife apps are available for the user to Accept under the Purchases section. The user will be required to enter their AppleID during the Acceptance process. From that point on the iLife apps will be tied to the AppleID used to Accept them. The user will be allowed to download the apps to other Macs they own if they wish using the same AppleID used to Accept them.
• Once Accepted on the new Mac, the iLife apps can not be transferred to any future owner when the Mac is sold. Attempting to use an AppleID after the apps have already been accepted using a different AppleID will result in the App Store reporting "These apps were already assigned to another Apple ID".
• It appears, however, that the iLife Apps do not automatically go to the first owner of the Mac. It's quite possible that the original owner, either by choice or neglect, never Accepted the iLife apps in the App Store. As a result, a future owner of the Mac may be able to successfully Accept the apps and retain them for themselves using their own AppleID. Bottom Line: Whoever Accepts the iLife apps first gets to keep them.
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Follow these instructions step by step to prepare a Mac for sale:
Step One - Back up your data:
A. If you have any Virtual PCs shut them down. They cannot be in their "fast saved" state. They must be shut down from inside Windows.
B. Clone to an external drive using using Carbon Copy Cloner.
1. Open Carbon Copy Cloner.
2. Select the Source volume from the Select a source drop down menu on the left side.
3. Select the Destination volume from the Select a destination drop down menu on the right
side.
4. Click on the Clone button. If you are prompted about creating a clone of the Recovery HD be
sure to opt for that.
Destination means a freshly erased external backup drive. Source means the internal
startup drive.
Step Two - Prepare the machine for the new buyer:
1. De-authorize the computer in iTunes! De-authorize both iTunes and Audible accounts.
2, Remove any Open Firmware passwords or Firmware passwords.
3. Turn the brightness full up and volume nearly so.
4. Turn off File Vault, if enabled.
5. Disable iCloud, if enabled: See.What to do with iCloud before selling your computer
Step Three - Install a fresh OS:
A. Snow Leopard and earlier versions of OS X
1. Insert the original OS X install CD/DVD that came with your computer.
2. Restart the computer while holding down the C key to boot from the CD/DVD.
3. Select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu; repartition and reformat the internal hard drive.
Optionally, click on the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass.
4. Install OS X.
5. Upon completion DO NOT restart the computer.
6. Shutdown the computer.
B. Lion and Mountain Lion (if pre-installed on the computer at purchase*)
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because
it is three times faster than wireless.
1. Restart the computer while holding down the COMMAND and R keys until the Mac OS X
Utilities window appears.
2. Select Disk Utility from the Mac OS X Utilities window and click on the Continue button.
3. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the left side list. Click
on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
4. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on the Security button
and set the Zero Data option to one-pass.
5. Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
6. Quit DU and return to the Mac OS X Utilities window.
7. Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
8. Upon completion shutdown the computer.
*If your computer came with Lion or Mountain Lion pre-installed then you are entitled to transfer your license once. If you purchased Lion or Mountain Lion from the App Store then you cannot transfer your license to another party. In the case of the latter you should install the original version of OS X that came with your computer. You need to repartition the hard drive as well as reformat it; this will assure that the Recovery HD partition is removed. See Step Three above. You may verify these requirements by reviewing your OS X Software License.

Building complex flash game in Flash Builder 4 - Workflow/Best Practices

I'm investigating switching to Flash Builder 4 for building a complex game that currently lives purely inside Flash CS4. CS4 is a pretty terrible source code editor and debugger. It's also quite unstable. Many crashes caused by bad behavior in the SWF will take out the entire IDE so are almost impossible to debug. And I've heard other horror stories. To be clear, for this project I'm not interested in the Flex API, just the IDE.
Surprisingly, it seems Flash Builder 4 isn't really set up for this type of development. I was hoping for an "Import FLA" option that would import my Document Class, set it as the main entry point, and figure out where other assets live and construct a new project. What is the best workflow for developing a project like this?
What I tried:
-Create a new Actionscript Project in the same directory where my CS4 lives
-Set the primary source file to match the original project's source file and location
-Set my main FLA as "export to SWC", and added "SWC PATH" to my flash builder 4 project.
-Compile and run.. received many errors due to references to stage instance. I changed these to GetChildByName("stagename"). Instead, should I declare them as members of the main class? (this would mimic what flash CS4 does).
-My project already streams in several external SWF's. I set these to "Export SWC" to get compile-time access to classes and varaibles. This works fine in cs4, the loaded SWF's behave as if they were in the native project. Is the same recommended with FB4?
-Should I also be setting the primary FLA as "export to swc"? If not, how do I reference it from flex, and how does flex know which fla it should construct the main stage with?
Problems:
-I'm getting a crash inside a class that is compiled in one of the external SWF's (with SWC). I cannot see source code for the stack inside this class at all. I CAN see member variables of the class, so symbol information exists. And I do see the stack with correct function names. I even see local variables and function parameters in the watch window! But no source. Is this a known bug, or "by design"? Is there a workaround? The class is compiled into the main project, but I still cannot see source. If FLEX doesn't support source level debugging of SWC's, then it's pretty useless to me. The project cannot live as a single SWF. It needs to be streaming and modular for performance and also work flow. I can see source just fine when debugging the exact same SWC/SWF through CS4.
-What is the expected workflow with artists/designers working on the project? Currently they just have access to all the latest source, and to test changes they run right through flash. Will they be required to license Flash Builder as well so they can test changes? Or should I be distributing the main "engine" as a SWF, and having it reference other SWF files that artists can work on? They they compile their SWF in CS4, and to test the game, they can load the SWF I distribute.
A whitepaper on this would be awesome, since I think a lot of folks are trying to go this direction. I spent a long time searching the web and there is quite a bit of confusion on this issue, and various hacks/tricks to make things work. Most of the information is stale from old releases (AS2!).
If a clean workflow I would happily adopt Flash Builder 4 as the new development tool for all the programmers. It's a really impressive IDE with solid performance, functional intellisense, a rich and configurable interface, a responsive debugger..I could go on and on. One request is shipping with "visual studio keyboard layout" for us C++ nerds.
Thanks very much for reading this novel!

Flash builder debugging is a go! Boy, I feel a bit stupid, you nailed the problem Jason - I didn't have "Permit Debugging set". I didn't catch it because debugging worked fine in CS4 because, well, CS4 doesn't obey this flag, even for externally loaded SWF files (I think as long as it has direct access to the SWC). Ugh.
I can now run my entire, multi SWF, complex project through FB with minimal changes. One question I do have:
In order to instantiate stage instances and call the constructor of the document class, I currently load the SWF file with LoaderContext. I'm not even exporting an SWC for the main FLA (though I may, to get better intellisense). Is this the correct way of doing it? Or should I be using , or some other method to pull it into flex? They seem to do the same thing.
The one awful part about this workflow is that since almost all of my code is currently tied to symbols, and lives in the SWF, any change i make to code must first be recompiled in CS4, then I have to switch back to FB. I'm going to over time restructure the whole code base to remove the dependency of having library symbols derive from my own custom classes. It's just a terrible work flow for both programmers and artists alike. CS5 will make this better, but still not great. Having a clean code base and abstracted away assets that hold no dependencies on the code seems like the way to go with flash. Realistically, in a complex project, artists/designers don't know how to correctly set up symbols to drive from classes anyway, it must be done by a programmer. This will allow for tighter error checking and less guess work. Any thoughts on this?
Would love to beta test CS5 FYI seeing as it solves some of these issues.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:06:07 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Building complex flash game in Flash Builder 4 - Workflow/Best Practices
How are you launching the debug session from Flash Builder? Which SWF are you pointing to?
Here's what I did:
1) I imported your project (File > Import > General > Existing project...)
2) Create a launch configuration (Run > Debug Configuration) as a Web Application pointing to the FlexSwcBug project
3) In the launch config, under "URL or path to launch" I unchecked "use default" and selected the SWF you built (I assume from Flash Pro C:\Users\labuser\Documents\FLAs\FlexSwcBug\FlexSwcBugCopy\src\AdobeBugExample_M ain.swf)
4) Running that SWF, I get a warning "SWF Not Compiled for Debugging"
5) No problem here. I opened Flash Professional to re-publish the SWF with "Permit debugging" on
6) Back In Flash Builder, I re-ran my launch configuration and I hit the breakpoint just fine
It's possible that you launched the wrong SWF here. It looks like you setup DocumentClass as a runnable application. This creates a DocumentClass.swf in the bin-debug folder and by default, that's what Flash Builder will create a run config for. That's not the SWF you want.
In AdobeBugExample_Main.swc, I don't see where classCrashExternal is defined. I see that classCrashMainExample is the class and symbol name for the blue pentagon. Flash Builder reads the SWC fine for me. I'm able to get code hinting for both classes in the SWC.
Jason San Jose
Quality Engineer, Flash Builder
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System Image Builder issue

This problem most likely falls under the "oh yeah forgot that step" I've used the clone approach to build a netinstall image.
1) I set it up exactly how I wanted.
2) booted to another drive.
3) copied it to a compressed DMG,
4) converted it to Read Only,
5) then I ran ASR on the drive,
No problems. Move it over to the Xserve, and when I mount it, and open System Image Builder, it simply says "no Valid Source Found"
How do I fix that? All I need is to put this DMG in as a NetInstall choice.

You did not do anything wrong.
Welcome to the club of those confused by this new "feature".
See this discussion: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11083155#11083155

Differences between operational systems data modeling and data warehouse da

Hello Everyone,
Can anybody help me understand the differences between operational systems data modeling and data warehouse data modeling>
Thanks

Hello A S!
What you mean is the difference between modelling after normal form like in operational systems (OLTP) e. g. 3NF and modelling a InfoCube in a data warehouse (OLAP)?
While in a OLTP you want to have data tables free of redundance and ready for transactions meaning writing and reading few records often, in an OLAP-system you need to read a lot of data for every query you do on a database. Often in an OLAP-system you aggregate these amounts of data.
Therefore you use another principle for these database scheme. This is called star schema. This means that you have one central table (called fact table) which holds the key figures and have keys to another tables with characteristics. These other tables are called dimension tables. They hold combinations of the characteristics. Normally you design it that your dimensions are small, so the access on the data is more efficent.
the star scheme in SAP BI is a little more complex than explained here but it follows the same concept.
Best regards,
Peter

Certified operating system for Oracle Identity Management 10g (10.1.4.0.1)

Hello,
I have a question regarding the certified operating system for Oracle Identity Management 10g (10.1.4.0.1)
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/idm_certification_101401.html
- for an Intel EM64T 64 bit machine
for the application server database it is stated that we need
Windows 2003 R1 (64 bit OS)
and the application server platform is certified with
Windows 2003 R1 with SP1 or higher (64 bit OS)
an installation of application server platform + database on a single Intel EM64T with Windows 2003 R1 with SP1 is not certified ? or with other words, if I add Sp1 to 2003 than the application server database is not on a certified platform ?
thanks

Hi Florin
My guess is that you are looking at the Oracle Identity Federation certification section in the link for the IDM certification.
The IDM certification for windows is in par. 2.3
For a 64 bits machine it specifies that you need Windows 2003 R2 to run it. And it is only certified for an Oracle database version 9.0.3.1. The footnote says:
Oracle Database includes Oracle 9i 9.2.0.8, Oracle 10g 10.1.0.5, Oracle 10g 10.2.0.1, and Oracle 10g 10.2.0.2
so I would go for the latest Oracle database version 10g 10.2.0.2. However the link with the Oracle database versions only notes an Oracle database version 10.2.0.1 available for Windows 64 bit. A quick lookup under the certifify tab in metalink shows that Oracle 10g R2 is certified for Windows 2003 10g R2 and that there is a 10.2.0.2 patch set that can be applied upon the Oracle database 10.2.0.1 base release. Don't forget to apply the latest CPU after this is done.
I have this from the documentation links you added in your question. I have not installed IDM 10.1.4 on Windows 64 bit myself.
Cheers

HTML and CSS Best Practices for Eloqua?

Hello Topliners Community,
My name is Ben and I am a Web Designer. I am currently looking for any guidance on HTML and CSS best practices when working with Eloqua. I am interested in the best practices for e-mail and landing pages.
Thank you,
Ben

Personally I like to upload my custom created html/css into Eloqua instead of using the WYSIWYG.
But if you must then right clicking on text boxes and click edit source is the way to go.
There was a good discussion on editing your forms with CSS:
Energize Your Eloqua10 Forms with CSS
created by Ryan Wheler on Nov 2, 2012 8:44 AM, last modified by Greg Stotler on Sep 19, 2013 2:00 PM
Version 2
CSS can be used to heavily customize the layout of forms in Eloqua10. In this article we will provide sample cover some common formatting use cases on Eloqua10 Landing Pages. Further details about uses of CSS in Eloqua10 form templates can be found here: EE12 - Do It - Eloqua - Energize E10 Forms
Eloqua10 Forms HTML Structure
Below is an outline of the structure of the HTML generated by Eloqua when a form is added to a landing page. By targeting the HTML classes highlighted below, we can control the layout of any form on your landing page.
For the rest of page: http://topliners.eloqua.com/docs/DOC-3015

I have owned a Photoshop Element 4.0 Then I change my operating system to Maverick, and after that

I have owned a Photoshop Element 4.0
Then I change my operating system to Maverick, and after that it will not work.
I remove the application and try re-installing but just before is completed I receive a massage saying that: “ Installation failed”: Installer encounter an error that cause the installation to failed. Contact software manufacturer for assistance. I went to adobe help chat and they send me here. Can any one help me to re-install my adobe again? Thanks!!!

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Certified operating systems for 32bit and 64 bit with bussines intelligence

Hi,
Pls can you tell me where I can find the list of certified operating systems for 32bit and 64 bit with bussines intelligence standart edition1.
thank you in advance,
Denis

Check the documentation:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/real-time-decisions/downloads/bi-se1-089899.html
regards
John
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I found the operating system very confusing and hard to use. No tutorial. Manual and online help were outdated. Tool bars, programs and documents randomly appeared and disappeared. Programs I installed completely disappeared. Anyone else experience this?

I found the operating system very confusing and hard to use. No tutorial. Manual and online help were outdated. Tool bars, programs and documents randomly appeared and disappeared. Programs I installed completely disappeared. Anyone else experience this?

No need to apologize, Jim. I think your rant was justified. For years people have been telling me how easy the Mac was to use. Imagine my frustration when I finally learned from friends and users that it takes weeks or months to make the transition from Windows to Mac.
Still, I agree that I acted to too hastily when I returned my mini-mac to the store only three days after I bought it.
I'm going to try again, this time with an iMac. This time I'll keep it. Since this thread is for the mini-Mac only, I'll probably be starting a new one for the iMac.
Why did I decide to try again? Well, I do like the faster speed and compact hardware of the Macs. I also like the fact that I can install Windows and use that for my programs until I transition completely to Mac, IF I make the complete transition.
Thank you all for your suggestions and advice. I have paid attention to what you said.
Andy

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