Academy · Basis & Platform · 200 Practitioner
Patching and Maintenance: SAP Notes, Support Packages and Maintenance Planner
Covers the maintenance lifecycle for on-premise and private cloud ABAP-based SAP S/4HANA systems: implementing SAP Notes and capturing them in transports, the difference between support packages, feature packages and release upgrades, planning a target stack with Maintenance Planner and applying it with SPAM or the Software Update Manager, coordinating maintenance with test and release calendars, and tracking security notes from SAP's monthly Security Patch Day. Built for Basis / Platform Administrators and Release / Change Managers at Practitioner level.
- 50 minutes
- 5 lessons + quiz
- Basis / Platform Administrator, Release / Change Manager
What you’ll be able to do
- Implement an SAP Note and capture it in a transport
- Explain support package, feature pack and release upgrade differences
- Plan a maintenance stack with Maintenance Planner
- Coordinate maintenance with test and release calendars
- Track security notes from SAP's monthly patch day
Sources and further reading
- SAP Note Assistant (lesson, Technical Implementation and Operation II of SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Suite) · SAP Learning
- SAP Support Packages (lesson) · SAP Learning
- Patching SAP Systems (lesson) · SAP Learning
- Maintaining SAP Systems (lesson) · SAP Learning
- Maintenance Planner · SAP Support Portal
- Software Update Manager (SUM) · SAP Support Portal
- SAP Security Notes and News (Security Patch Day) · SAP Support Portal
- SAP Release Strategy · SAP Support Portal