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Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & Development Operating - installing and maintaining - Oracle Fusion Middleware, especially Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.4 is quite some work. Not only does installation itself consist of a number of steps, but...

In this article we'll show you how to create an OAuth-Sign-In Flow after migrating from MS Exchange on Premise to Exchange online.

In this blog post we will give you an overview for Oracle E-Business Suite Workflow Mailer when migrating to Exchange Online.

Recently for multiple customers I ran into issues while running "adop phase=fs_clone".

Analyzing the error further I realized that this is around the (rather old) version of Oracle Installer trying to find the available space on the disk. With E-Business Suite running on OCI File Storage Service (FSS) this amount of available disk storage is basically "unlimited"; df reveals 8 Exabyte of free storage.

As you're probably aware, Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager is a great tool to automate the operation of Oracle E-Business Suite.

This is especially true for cloning, e.g. creating Production-to-Test (P2T) copies. In the old days, for some of my customers it was a multi-week project to create such a P2T copy. Or alternatively, it resulted in a 50 days+ project to fully automate this with traditional infrastructure.

Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager provides a powerful way to run and manage E-Business Suite environments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI.
While the tooling covers many parts of the usual cloning steps, it is sometimes necessary to add some "custom stuff", e.g. modifying the ALLORACLE password, registering monitoring solutions, pausing some concurrent requests and so on.

This week, Oracle released the version 23.3.1 of Cloud Manager.

The new release finally provides the possibility to change the apps, ebs_system and weblogic password during cloning. This is great, and for most of my customers it works "out-of-the box".

I've just realized, that Oracle today released Cloud Manager release 23.3.1. I'll give you a first overview of new features I've discovered at first glance.

Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & Development Last week, I've upgraded the E-Business Suite of a first customer to the latest E-Business Suite RUP 12.2.13, Enterprise Command Centers V11 as well as Database 19.21. A comprehensive list of...

Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentAs you're probably aware by now, since June 1st 2023 all well-known / public Certificate Authorities (CA) no longer provide Code Signing Certificates using pure software based private keys (see...

Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentAs you're probably aware by now, since June 1st 2023 all well-known / public Certificate Authorities (CA) no longer provide Code Signing Certificates using pure software based private keys (see...

Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & Development While applying the October 2023 Critical Patch Update (CPU) - that contains various critical fixes as can be found over there https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2023.html - I realized...

Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is a critical application that requires careful monitoring to ensure optimal performance and prevent potential disruptions. One crucial aspect of monitoring EBS instances is keeping track of free disk space. In this guide, we will explore how to effectively monitor the free disk space on Oracle E-Business Suite instances running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Maybe you've read my recent blog post on issues with using OCI Load Balancers in combination with E-Business Suite July 2023 security patches.

Together with Oracle we found a better workaround than the one mentioned in my previous post.

Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Application Apps (MSCA) / Mobile Web Applications (MWA) rely on a telnet-style protocol to connect from the client - be it an Android or iOS device or be it a dedicated scanning hardware - to the application server.

On Tuesday Oracle released the quarterly security patch set, which contains a bunch of security related patches for both the Tech Stack and the Application Tier of E-Business Suite. While applying the patch for some of our customers running E-Business Suite on OCI I realized that access to the environment was no longer possible: Instead, a "502 Bad Gateway" error is shown.

Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & DevelopmentE-Business Suite Umgebung mit LetsEncrypt Zertifikat Nowadays, all web traffic through the internet should be encrypted. For this to work, SSL certificates are required. These can be bought from...

Johannes MichlerExecutive Vice President – Head of Platforms & Development Wireguard Windows Client Connecting to OCI When setting up Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments, it is often helpful to have a lightweight VPN from your local machine to the newly...

We recently upgraded a great amount of customer instances, both on the APEX and on the ORDS layer. The general procedure for Oracle APEX is more or less unchanged in comparison to previous versions. On the ORDS layer however, the upgrade to 22.1 contains many changes. Additionally, we encountered a couple of issues, which are (along with their solutions) described below.

Recently Oracle released the Critical Patch Update for April 2022.

We analyzed the security patches published and first of all: There is a lot of highly critical stuff in this quarter’s release, especially for E-Business Suite (incl. Cloud Manager -maximum CVSS base score of 9.8), Fusion Middleware (a whole bunch of 9.8 ratings with more Log4J as well).

Together with our friends from Enginatics, we recently performed a bunch of performance benchmarks, especially of the CPU performance in the context of an Oracle E-Business Suite on various Oracle Database Releases. This blog will give an overview on the results we measured.

As described in many of my previous posts, Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager tooling allows for a convenient management of your Oracle E-Business Suite environments on OCI.

At the beginning of March, Oracle released the OCI “edition” of an Application Performance Monitoring Service (APM). The service is even available free of charge for smaller applications (up to 1,000 Events per hour).

I recently set up a new “E-Business Suite on OCI” environment for a customer. During the initial setup, the customer was not able to set up a Site-2-Site Tunnel between their on premise Data Center and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Center in Frankfurt. To make my initial setup and testing more convenient, I decided to set up a separate VPN tunnel to my own development network.

I recently set up a new “E-Business Suite on OCI” environment for a customer. During the initial setup, the customer was not able to set up a Site-2-Site Tunnel between their on-premise Data Center and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Center in Frankfurt. To make my initial setup and testing more convenient, I decided to set up a separate VPN tunnel to my own development network. I first tried libreswan on a Raspberry Pi.