This guide introduces you to Basis, explains best practices and pitfalls to avoid and provides troubleshooting help and advice. You'll find Basis articles, tutorials, tips, tools, white papers, expert advice and more to pump up your Basis know-how quickly. Drop me an e-mail to let me know what other learning guides you'd like to see on SearchSAP.com. Matt Danielsson , Editor.
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Basis is a set of middleware programs and tools from SAP, the German company whose
comprehensive R/3 product is used to help manage large corporations, that provides the underlying
base (thus the name) that enables applications (such as FI, CO, and SD, for example) to be
seamlessly interoperable and portable across operating systems and database products. R/3 Basis
includes client/server architecture and configuration, a relational database management system
(RDBMS), and a graphical user interface (GUI).
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- Basis (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- All about Basis (SearchSAP.com)
- Q & A- A practical guide for SAP Basis Administrators (SearchSAP.com)
- Handy Basis downloads (Giovanni Davila)
- Troubleshooting SAP startup problems in Windows (SearchSAP.com)
- Automating line-item data entry for purchase orders via SAPGUI scripting (SearchSAP.com)
- Overcoming Basis challenges inside and outside the box (SearchSAP.com)
- Overcoming Basis challenges by reaching inside the database (SearchSAP.com)
- Basis shortcuts-SAPGUI, Unix, SAP ITS, Router, Client Copy and IDES (sap-img)
- Basis discussion forum (basisconsultant)
- Administrator discussion forum (SearchSAP.com)
- Best Web links for Systems Administration (SearchSAP.com)
- Get advice from our resident Basis on Windows expert Giovanni Davila (SearchSAP.com)
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- What is an instance? (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- What is a transport? (SAP Library)
- Import PROD client to DEV instance (SearchSAP.com)
- Accessing information from a central instance (SearchSAP.com)
- Two instances- one report (SearchSAP.com)
- Downloading transports (SearchSAP.com)
- ALE customizing transport "cannot add to buffer" . (SearchSAP.com)
- Can I roll back a transport after it has moved into production? (SearchSAP.com)
- Heterogeneous database transport support (SearchSAP.com)
- Creating a transport request for a trading partner (SearchSAP.com)
- Taking instances out of the TMS landscape (SearchSAP.com)
- Transport guide (SearchSAP.com)
- Extended transport control (SearchSAP.com)
- Resetting released transports (SearchSAP.com)
- View a transport object list before import (SearchSAP.com)
- Restarting a hanging transport (SearchSAP.com)
- Mass transport imports (SearchSAP.com)
- How to find which user imported a transport (SearchSAP.com)
- Better transport TP processing info (SearchSAP.com)
- Manual configuration transport requests (SearchSAP.com)
- Managing critical transport objects (SearchSAP.com)
- Correction & transport tip (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP Instance Consolidation (SearchSAP.com)
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- What is a GUI? (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- Extend the maximum number of GUI sessions in 4.6C (SearchSAP.com)
- Delete the picture in the SAPGUI window (SearchSAP.com)
- Error when launching SAPGUI (SearchSAP.com)
- SAPGUI 4.6D crash on mixed network (SearchSAP.com)
- Identify which is the "compilation" version of SAPGUI 4.6D (SearchSAP.com)
- Running SAPGUI on a thin client (SearchSAP.com)
- Eliminating the Front.EXE errors on SAPGUI 4.6D (SearchSAP.com)
- Error messages in SAPGUI v4.6 on Windows 2000 Pro (SearchSAP.com)
- Recording messages and doing silent install for SAP 4.6D on NT (SearchSAP.com)
- What happened to the SAPGUI Automation library in 6.20? (SearchSAP.com)
- How do I uninstall SAP GUI 4.6C? (SearchSAP.com)
- Creating a distribution package for SAPGUI 4.6D (SearchSAP.com)
- Start SAPGUI at the command prompt (SearchSAP.com)
- Controlling the SAPGUI New Visual Design. (SearchSAP.com)
- SAPGUI Installation with WIN2000/NT and SAPGUI History (SearchSAP.com)
- Color SAPGUI for each SYSID differently (SearchSAP.com)
- Preventing Web access via SAPGUI (SearchSAP.com)
- Show progress clock in status bar (SearchSAP.com)
- Spell checker for SAPGUI fields (SearchSAP.com)
- Execute OS commands from SAPGUI (SearchSAP.com)
- SAPGUI strategy (SearchSAP.com)
- Using DDE to fill in SAPGUI fields & Automation Toolkit (SearchSAP.com)
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- What is an authorization? (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- What is a role? (SAPInfo)
- Introduction to the Authorization Concept and Components . (Matt Wong's Basis)
- Pros and cons of structural authorizations (SearchSAP.com)
- Limit authorizations (SearchSAP.com)
- Authorization highlighted in red? (SearchSAP.com)
- Creating multiple users with the same authorizations (SearchSAP.com)
- Copy users and authorizations to another system (SearchSAP.com)
- CRM authorizations (SearchSAP.com)
- How to for HR authorization (SearchSAP.com)
- Regulating user authorizations for goods receipt transactions (SearchSAP.com)
- Granting authorizations by user/table (SearchSAP.com)
Implementing structural authorizations (SearchSAP.com)
- Create role indices in Excel to match R/3 (SearchSAP.com)
- R/3 audit review questions (SearchSAP.com)
- Quick-check users with many authorizations (SearchSAP.com)
- User & authorization related tables (SearchSAP.com)
- Authorizations: automatic conversion (SearchSAP.com)
- Authorization groups (SearchSAP.com)
- Transporting user master records, authorizations and profiles between clients (SearchSAP.com)
- Exclude/include objects from authority checks (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP roles (SearchSAP.com)
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- What is a profile? (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- What is a password? (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- What is a transaction? (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- Disabling requests for change of password (SearchSAP.com)
- Non-expiring passwords (SearchSAP.com)
- Reset password for SAP and DDIC (SearchSAP.com)
- Security: transaction codes vs. profiles (SearchSAP.com)
- Lost passwords (SearchSAP.com)
- Synchronize your SAP account passwords (SearchSAP.com)
- Parameters for establishing SAP password policies (SearchSAP.com)
- Business security begins with a strong password policy (SearchSAP.com)
- Protect SAP against hackers using word attack/dictionary methods (SearchSAP.com)
- Saving passwords for SAP shortcuts (SearchSAP.com)
- Restricting use of certain passwords (SearchSAP.com)
- Authentication and single sign-on (SearchSAP.com)
- Using the SAP Password BAPIs (SearchSAP.com)
- Reset SAP password when automatic SAP is disabled (SearchSAP.com)
- Using the SAP Password BAPIs (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP Logon with no password expiration possible? (SearchSAP.com)
- Change the password of SAPR3 (SearchSAP.com)
- Password table (SearchSAP.com)
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- What is a client? (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- What is a session? (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- Moving between vendor platforms (SearchSAP.com)
- copy control functionality (SearchSAP.com)
- Refreshing training clients (SearchSAP.com)
- Bypassing database creation during system copy (SearchSAP.com)
- Problems with BRBACKUP after system copy [ENGLISH/SPANISH] (SearchSAP.com)
- Transferring data between two IDE systems using client copy (SearchSAP.com)
- Exclude a table from Client Copy(SearchSAP.com)
- Automatic nightly client copy triggering (SearchSAP.com)
- Copy or rename R/3 w-out installing (SearchSAP.com)
- How to copy tables to another system using R3trans (SearchSAP.com)
- Quick cut & paste in SAP (SearchSAP.com)
- R3copy and R3load? (SearchSAP.com)
- Homogeneous System Copy (SearchSAP.com)
- Copy Session in 4.6C (SearchSAP.com)
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- What is a patch? (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- What is a kernel? (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- Kernel patch upgrades on a three-tier system (SearchSAP.com)
- Downloading kernel executables vs. patches (SearchSAP.com)
- Decompressing HR patches (SearchSAP.com)
- Stuck applying support packages? (SearchSAP.com)
- Deleting entries in PAT03 (SearchSAP.com)
- Digesting Support Pack Notes (SearchSAP.com)
- Getting technical info at the OS level (SearchSAP.com)
- Upgrading SAP Kernal from 46B to 46D (SearchSAP.com)
- Kernel Patch level (SearchSAP.com)
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- What is a table? (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- Find data underlying a transaction. (SearchSAP.com)
- Retrieving table contents with JSP (SearchSAP.com)
- Identifying input/output tables during introspection (SearchSAP.com)
- Is there a generic SAP MetaData list? (SearchSAP.com)
- Supercharge performance with hashed tables (SearchSAP.com)
- Use field symbols for better performance in internal tables (SearchSAP.com)
- Create dynamic table with conditions (SearchSAP.com)
- Copy table dynamically (SearchSAP.com)
- Programming dynamic selections (SearchSAP.com)
- Database maintenance (SearchSAP.com)
- Data Generation for SAP Demo Tables (SearchSAP.com)
- Finding tables (SearchSAP.com)
- Activity Group Tables (SearchSAP.com)
- User & authorization related tables (SearchSAP.com)
- Exclude a table from client copy (SearchSAP.com)
- Favorite tables (SearchSAP.com)
- Maintaining tables with ALV (SearchSAP.com)
- Locking and unlocking of tables (SearchSAP.com)
- See all config. tables relating to a company code, sales org, division (SearchSAP.com)
- Dynamically extract data using internal tables (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP table view in html format (SearchSAP.com)
- Analyzing tables (SearchSAP.com)
- View active internal tables during debugging (SearchSAP.com)
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- SAP Basis: Printing Problems and Solutions (Geocities)
- Print control (SearchSAP.com)
- New printer problems (SearchSAP.com)
- Sending mail through SAPOffice (SearchSAP.com)
- Generate e-mails based on purchase requisition (SearchSAP.com)
- Using the FrontEnd printer (SearchSAP.com)
- Remote user printer problems (SearchSAP.com)
- Test print job to SAP printer (SearchSAP.com)
- Printing bold, italic, small and big letter from SAP (SearchSAP.com)
- Print two pages of ABAP code on one page (SearchSAP.com)
- Changing printer host in one shot (SearchSAP.com)
- Print a TEST indicator on non-productive documents (SearchSAP.com)
- Saving report to a PDF file (SearchSAP.com)
- Printing to PDF file (SearchSAP.com)
- Printing logos using Smartforms (SearchSAP.com)
- Automatic mail forwarding (SearchSAP.com)
- Sending a work item via e-mail (SearchSAP.com)
- Send background job failure alerts to users by e-mail (SearchSAP.com)
- How to use Sapconnect for send mail under Windows NT (SearchSAP.com)
- Sending e-mails from R/3 (SearchSAP)
- Selective deletion for printer spool (SearchSAP.com)
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- Useful SAP System Administration Transactions (sap-img)
- More useful Basis transactions (SAP Genie)
- Consumption of memory in particular transaction (SearchSAP.com)
- Understanding the Internet Transaction Server (SearchSAP.com)
- Finding Transaction codes (SearchSAP.com)
- Searching SAP Menus (SearchSAP.com)
- Search for menu path to a transaction in 4.6C (SearchSAP.com)
- Search for transaction codes/menu paths (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP transaction log trace (SearchSAP.com)
- List transactions by user (SearchSAP.com)
- Avoiding the yellow lights when adding transactions via PFCG (SearchSAP.com)
- List
executable transactions by user (SearchSAP.com)
- Search for TCODE or MENU PATH (SearchSAP.com)
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- What is OSS?. (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- Easy Service Marketplace -- SAP notes (Easy Marketplace)
- Handy OSS notes (SAP tech)
- Useful technical OSS notes (sappoint)
- SAP R/3 Document : Using transaction SNOTE (sappoint)
- OSS connection over VPN (SearchSAP.com)
- OSS problems after upgrading to Solaris 8 (Expert Answer Center)
- Sapserver FTP (SearchSAP.com)
- Standards for making changes to programs created by SAP. Including points related to OSS source code corrections (SearchSAP.com)
- Manually Applying OSS note on SAP Standard Program (sap-img)
- How to apply OSS notes to my R/3 system? (sap-img)
- OSS Note 53459- SAP programs available for Linux. (Christopher Browne)
- How do I configure the OSS connection through SAP? (SearchSAP.com)
- Support Package Order in SAP 4.6x (SearchSAP.com)
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- What is archiving? (SearchSAP.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- Top 6 reasons to archive (thespot4sap)
- Presentation (pdf): SAP data archiving projects (SAP AG)
- The Year of Archiving (SearchSAP.com)
- SAPscript and Smart Form Archiving Technologies (SearchSAP.com)
- White Paper Data archiving and archive development kit (IT Toolbox)
- Archiving data from a Development server (SearchSAP.com)
- Archiving Objects (SearchSAP.com)
- Archiving Processed IDocs (IT Toolbox)
- Reloading archived SD/MM documents safely (SearchSAP.com)
- Disk space is cheap...or is it? (SearchSAP.com)
- Data archiving- where do we start? (SearchSAP.com)
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- Sample Basis certification questions (sap-img)
- Is Basis certification necessary? (SearchSAP.com)
- Building a career from a basis support position (SearchSAP.com)
- Advice: SAP authorization expert without Basis experience (SearchSAP.com)
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- Text: 'SAP Basis Administration' by Giovanni Davila (Amazon.com)
- Text: 'SAP R/3 System Administration: The Official SAP Guide' by Lianne Will (Amazon.com)
- Text: 'SAP R/3 Administrator's Handbook' by Jose Antonio Hernandez (Amazon.com)
- Text: 'Basis Administration for SAP' by Robert E. Parkinson, Robert Parkinson, Victor Wood, Kay Tailor, Robert Lyfareff (Amazon.com)
- Text: 'SAP R/3 Administration for Dummies' by Joey Hirao, Jim Meade (Amazon.com)
- Text: 'SAP Performance Optimization Guide, Third Edition' by Thomas Schneider (Amazon.com)
| More Learning Guides | Return to Table of Contents |
- SAP Certification Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- Application Security Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP CRM Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- ERP guide for the midmarket (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP Security Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP Career Advancement Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP Job Seeker's Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP NetWeaver Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- Business Intelligence (BI) Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP BW Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP HR Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP XI Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- SAP RFID Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- BAPI Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- Basis Learning Guide (SearchSAP.com)
- Learning Guide for Sales Effectiveness (SearchCRM.com)
- Wireless Learning Guide (SearchMobileComputing.com)
- Learning Guide for Marketing Effectiveness (SearchCRM.com)
- XML Learning Guide (SearchWebServices.com)
- Linux basics for Windows pros (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
This was first published in June 2004

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