I have come out to the need to recover some e-mails that were stored in a .pst file (easily read by Outlook, more difficulty imported to other mail client), so I needed to learn how to import mail from Outlook…
Browsing through the SAP discussions, I read a comment where a user summarized all tasks required for SAP Closings. I thought it is interesting to have them on hand. These are the activities that have to be performed when doing…
Some users prefer to use a desktop e-mail client (like Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird) instead of webmail applications (like Gmail or Outlook web), but sometimes the decision is not in their hands. This would be the case of those employees…
A common mistake for SAP users who work with multiple environments (e.g. Development, Testing and Productive) is to be working on a system that is not the intended. This can make us spoil our time when the displayed information is…
There are some currencies (like the defunct pesetas or the Colombian peso) that can’t be divided into decimals, because there are no coins or notes of a value smaller than an unit. SAP stores how many decimals are used for…
This post explains how to create a simple Gantt chart using Excel 2007 and above. It is also useful for creating charts in PowerPoint, because the data is based on Excel charts. Step-by-step Instructions 1. Create the Table with Data…
When an error has been detected in a SAP system, or you need to track how an error reported by a user has been triggered, it is very useful to know how to get the program linked to a transaction…
About a year ago, I had to install a Citrix ICA Client to connect to a SAP system from my home laptop. I searched on the internet to find a simple tutorial to explain how to run it under Ubuntu,…
Two years ago, I had a subject at university that consisted of developing our skills as Systems Administrator (its fullname was “Administración de sistemas informáticos“). The main task was to configure a minimal Debian GNU/Linux 4 (“etchy”) to work as…
I use the GNOME video player that is installed by default in Ubuntu 9.04 – Jaunty Jackalope. Its name is Totem, and it can be either based on GStreamer or xine. I am using GStreamer as this is the default…