Lawson LSF/LBI Upgrade

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Lawson LSF/LBI Upgrade

• Kevin Cubillas
• Director of Enterprise Technology
• Boulder Valley School District

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Who We Are

• 2 People in IT (s/b 3)
• 4,900 Employees
• 27,000 Students
• 55 locations
• MS Windows 2003
• SQL Server 2003

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Why Now?

• Summer upgrades are good.
• Couldnt upgrade and support LSF, LBI, and
  Applications all at once
• Absence Management.

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Our Server Configuration
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Upgrade Benefits

• Logical and Robust Security Model
• Say goodbye to laua and security classes!!
• Better Security Reporting
• Better performance, scalability, and stability
• Next generation of Lawson products
• Java based say goodbye to COBOL
• New Functionality Absence Management
• Intuitive Single Sign On Security
• Process Flow
• Smart Notifications
• Scorecard
• LBI Report Bursting
• Process Flow Integrator

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New Concepts To Learn

• Single Sign On Implications
• LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
• LDAP RD30, Laua, Printers, Groups, etc.
• LDAP Bind to Active Directory
• Identities Requester, Employee, SSO
• MS ADAM / Tivoli / JExplorer
• Lawson Security and Resource Management

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Surprises

• Do not attempt LDAP Bind by yourself! Trust us!
• LDAP Bind program not ready.
• LBI must be upgraded prior to LSF.
• RSS must be upgraded with LSF.
• Employee Identity
• Load LDAP with clean data.
• LBI vs. Websphere servers
• Passwords
• Synchronizing passwords
• Change password link

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Lessons Learned

• Production upgrade only
• Made us more reactive
• Lawson LSF 9 consulting and GSC expertise is
  still growing.
• Remote Install with Xansa
• Pros and Cons
• Upgrade not evident to end user
• Cosmetic
• Houseboat
• Communications critical
• Lot to learn
• Take your time