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Jun 07, 2011 at 05:00 AM

SAPGUI Security SAPGUI 7.20 - Changing defaults for rollout to workstations

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We are looking at rolling out SAPGUI 7.20 (patch 6 at this stage unless Patch 7 is available soon) with Windows 7.

Our initial testing has raised lots of complaints\comments about the SAP GUI Security popups.

SAPGUI 7.20 sets the level of SAPGUI security to the customized level by default. We would like to modify the defaults that get rolled out to the users and I am looking at the options for doing this and have so far come up with the following:

- We don't really want a Central Repository for Security Configuration (because of WAN issues). What happens anyway if someone tries to start the GUI and the saprules.xml file is not available because the Central Repository server is down or network issues prevent a workstation from seeing the central file?

- Is it possible to package the 7.20 GUI and customizing the SAP GUI security settings (so rollout the GUI with the security settings we want but so they are stored locally on people's workstations)

- Or, could we create a 'corporate saprules.xml' setting it up the way we want it to be rolled out initially and copy it to a location on each workstation but then point the registry entry for the "Central Repository" to this location on the local workstation. This way if we wanted to update the saprules.xml we could just copy the file back to everyone's workstation?

Are there any better ways? Can anyone see any flaws with these?

Presently the messages from the SAPGUI Security are a bit confusing I think and we don't want them coming up for all our users when they start using SAPGUI 7.20 (when they are going to be dealing with lots of other changes as they get Windows 7).

Thanks

Felicity