This is the third of a six-part series progressing from initial download, through installation, to configuration of scripted packages for a fine level of workstation control via an SAPGUI Installation Server. Later in the series I will show how to maintain central control of the SAP Logon configuration, and I will make some recommendations that may help ease the administrator's burden.
As parts of this process are likely already familiar to many of you, I have broken it up into stages. Please feel free to jump to the sections most relevant for you. If you are setting up an Installation Server for the first time, however, I recommend you go back to SAPGUI Installation Server Part 1 - Getting Started and move sequentially through the steps.
In Parts 1 and 2 we downloaded all our required files and installed our Installation Server to a network shared location. Now it's time to bring our Installation Server up-to-date with the latest patches.
- Getting Started
- Includes download of all required files
- Initial Installation
- Patching (this document)
- Package Creation
- Includes initial installation of the administrator's SAPGUI
- Scripting
- LSH and Distribution
Patch Installation Server
If you are continuing on from the previous step (SAPGUI Installation Server Part 2 - Initial Installation), then the Installation Server Administration Tool will be automatically launched for you when you click Close on the Installation and Update Tool. If you are returning to this step at a later time, you can launch the tool manually on your workstation by navigating to your server share:
- \\server\sapgui
- Setup
From there, execute the program:
- NwSapSetupAdmin.exe
You will get to know this program very well. It is important to execute it from the location in your Installation Server share, not from the installation files you previously extracted to your local hard drive.
When you first launch it, you will notice in the title bar that it names the Installation Server that you are working in, so you can confirm that you are in the right place. You will initially see a list of SAP frontend components that are available on your Installation Server. Above that are several tool buttons. Click Patch Server.
The Patch Installation Wizard will open.
Click Next and then click Browse. A browse window will open. Navigate to the location where you stored the two patches you downloaded earlier (as part of SAPGUI Installation Server Part 1 - Getting Started), and select the SAPSETUP patch.
Click Open.
Click Next. The tool will then validate the patch.
If this is an established Installation Server already being used by end users, then you should not proceed during business hours or at a time when users may be installing or updating their SAPGUIs. If this is the initial configuration of the Installation Server, however, then you are so far the only user. Click Next.
The tool will close NwSapSetupAdmin and apply the patch. When it's finished, you will see a success message.
Leave the checkbox checked and click Close. The Installation Server Administration Tool will reopen. You aren't done patching, however, as so far you have only patched the infrastructure of the server, and not any of the products. As before, click on Patch Server, then Next. This time, browse to the GUI Core patch you downloaded earlier.
This time, the patch will take longer to apply.
When the patch is complete, you are once again returned to the Installation Server Administration Tool. Your Installation Server and the core SAPGUI product are now up-to-date, but in order to make it easier on your end users and yourself, you will now want to create a Package. That is the subject of the next installment in this series.
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Continue on to SAPGUI Installation Server Part 4 - Package Creation.
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