topic Re: Sandbox Refresh in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Sandbox Refresh

Former Member — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:30:33 GMT

Hello All - I wanted to see if there is any work around for my issue, here is the scenario:

Company policy says contractors cannot get access on PRD, so on every sandbox refresh contractors or interns are losing their access because sandbox is a copy of production.

I was trying to find if there is any work around to come over this issue, like putting these specific users in transport with their roles. This way I can import this transport to sandbox after sandbox refresh.

I searched user admin tcodes to see if I have any options, I did not see any.

Thanks all in advance.

Re: Sandbox Refresh

sdipanjan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:09:24 GMT

Put the users in the Transport request with assignment to roles and after refresh, import it to sandbox.

Regards,

Dipanjan

Re: Sandbox Refresh

Former Member — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:58:37 GMT

Refresh PROD --> Sandbox...

As you are not concerned about data confidentiality, but only it's integrity (in PROD), I would recommend creating a "Backup" client.

Assuming that your "refresh" is still capable of doing it via a client copy (temporarily permitted?), you can then do another client copy from the backup client to your "contractor sandbox client" after the fresh.

If it is a system copy, then consider a backup client in an intermediate system (e.g. QAS) to copy back from for the user profile, and then reactivate the ID's for them, You could provide a password self-service for them, which would also validate whether they are on the project or not - for example by sending a password on request to the mail ID, possibly after having been able to correctly answer an embarassing question....

Personally, I use incorrect answers.

Cheers,

Julius

Re: Sandbox Refresh

Former Member — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:39:58 GMT

It is very common to export users and roles from a sandbox, apply the refresh and then reimport the users and roles again.

Re: Sandbox Refresh

Former Member — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:16:25 GMT

Hi,

In this case as mentioned already the effort is eased out if a separate client is used and data related to roles and users are exported and re imported in the client in Post Refresh step.

Regards

Aveek.

Re: Sandbox Refresh

Former Member — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:43:31 GMT

Thanks Everyone.