{"id":509,"date":"2018-05-14T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/akquinet-security-en.blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2020-07-07T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T09:40:47","slug":"handling-authorizations-during-an-sap-release-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sast-solutions.com\/blog-en\/2018\/05\/14\/handling-authorizations-during-an-sap-release-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling Authorizations During an SAP Release Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #616262;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-510 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sast-blog.akquinet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/akquinet-img_0202w_jpg.jpg\" alt=\"akquinet-IMG_0202w_jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sast-solutions.com\/blog-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/akquinet-img_0202w_jpg.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sast-solutions.com\/blog-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/akquinet-img_0202w_jpg-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>After upgrading to a new SAP release, customers often face the challenge of using the SAP transaction SU25 to bring their authorizations up to speed, as well. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #616262;\">In today&#8217;s practical tip, Steffen Maltig shows you how to save up to 90% of the resources this normally requires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #616262;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #616262;\">Since it typically impacts a large number of roles, the conventional approach to an authorization upgrade like this entails a significant amount of role maintenance and testing effort. If you deviate from this approach, however, authorization-related error messages are practically guaranteed during live operations, which also results in more effort and irritating delays in your business processes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #616262;\"><strong>Is there any way to make this procedure as efficient as possible while minimizing authorization problems?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #616262;\">One option involves establishing a fallback mechanism \u2013 using <a href=\"https:\/\/sast-solutions.de\/en\/sast-suite\/identity-user-access-management\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SAST Safe Go-Live Management<\/a>, for example. It\u2019s a quick and easy means of updating your default authorization values and safeguarding your go-live with a solution your users can rely on when necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #616262;\">When they run into an error message, it takes just a few seconds to extend their personal authorizations to the objects in question for a short time, which enables them to continue working on the operative process at hand without further disruptions. Meanwhile, the admins responsible receive e-mail notifications about the error that occurred. They can then access a seamless authorization trace to quickly identify the problem and address it in the roles affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #616262;\"><strong>In the end, only the roles that are actually impacted by the SAP release upgrade in question will be adjusted. In our experience, this can save you up to 90% of the time an upgrade like this usually takes!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-412\" src=\"https:\/\/sast-blog.akquinet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/referent_steffenmaltig_akquinet-e1517509266646.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sast-solutions.com\/blog-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/referent_steffenmaltig_akquinet-e1517509266646.jpg 649w, https:\/\/sast-solutions.com\/blog-en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/referent_steffenmaltig_akquinet-e1517509266646-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #616262;\">Steffen Maltig<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #616262;\">Head of SAST Authorization Management at AKQUINET<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"color: #616262;\">Are you interested in learning more about how SAST SUITE can help you optimize your authorization projects? Then get in touch with us today: <a href=\"mailto:knowhow@akquinet.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">knowhow@akquinet.de<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After upgrading to a new SAP release, customers often face the challenge of using the SAP transaction SU25 to bring their authorizations up to speed, as well.<br \/>\nIn today&#8217;s practical tip, Steffen Maltig shows you how to save up to 90% of the resources this normally requires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[151,67,64,68],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sap-authorizations-grc","tag-grc","tag-identity-management","tag-role-management","tag-sap-authorizations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Handling Authorizations During an SAP Release Upgrade<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sast-solutions.com\/blog-en\/2018\/05\/14\/handling-authorizations-during-an-sap-release-upgrade\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Handling Authorizations During an SAP Release Upgrade\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After upgrading to a new SAP release, customers often face the challenge of using the SAP transaction SU25 to bring their authorizations up to speed, as well.  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