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Watch this Ask the Expert session to learn about different tasks that should be done on a regular basis to keep your SAS Viya environment healthy and secure.    Watch the webinar     You will learn about: Monitoring a Viya environment. Administering users and groups. Checking pods. Backing up your Viya environment.   The questions from the Q&A segment held at the end of the webinar are listed below and the slides from the webinar are attached.   Q&A How can I integrate/inject organization user from active directory into SAS VIYA to manage their SAS access? Users are brought into Viya through the identity management service. You work with your authentication provider, whoever manages that, and you will enter that information to allow SAS Viya to connect with you. You set up SAS groups and users, and those users will be brought over into SAS Viya. They're listed as users and listed as groups. Remember that the custom groups are groups that exist only in SAS Viya. The users and the groups exist in your authentication provider.   Could you please explain SAS Single Sign On? What resources are required? That's just dealing with your authentication provider. As you can see, most of the SAS applications now are web-based so you're working with whatever authentication provider the browser uses. How I view single sign-on is one set of credentials that work everywhere in the environment. And if that's how your environment is set up, then you know the credentials that you log onto your desktop will work to access and run CAS servers. SAS Viya uses Kerberos for single sign on. Once the environment is configured the browser must be configured as well. Documentation on authentication mechanisms can be found here: https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/sasadmincdc/v_026/calauthmdl/n1iyx40th7exrqn1ej8t12gfhm88.htm#p1fra9uzsjyqnqn1xdo11y8v7t71   How to make SAS Viya integrated with R, JAVA, python, and Lua use CAS programming in an interface? Is there any documentation? I'm not a programmer, so I use the words from our SAS documentation: CAS integrates with common open-source languages. CAS actions can be called directly from Java, Lua, Python, R, or REST APIs. Integrating SAS and open-source technologies is often helpful for two main reasons: programmatically accessing SAS Viya using open-source software or bringing open-source models into SAS Viya.   We currently use pre-Viya versions on SAS in our organization with separately managed environments by business domain/dept. From an admin point of view, do you see large organizations manage a single Viya instance or multiple instances? Like most things administration, it depends on the size of the organization. SAS Viya supports multi-tenancy that allows several groups to interact with a single instance of the software. In this configuration each group would be a tenant. There are also organizations that choose to deploy individual instances of SAS Viya for specific groups within the organization. I recommend continuing to work with your SAS team to determine the best option for your organization.   What's the equivalent object in SAS Viya 4 for SAS 9 information map? SAS 9 information maps based on relational tables are job definition and job request objects in SAS Viya. SAS 9 information maps based on OLAP cubes are not supported in SAS Viya.   Could you please explain what SAS cache locator does in SAS Viya? The SAS Cache Locator is a server that provides discovery information to SAS Viya microservices for the purpose of forming a distributed data cache.   Are there other monitoring tools I can use with SAS Viya? You can use the following tools to view and manage metrics: SAS Viya Monitoring for Kubernetes logging and monitoring tools – This monitoring solution uses the following open-source technologies: Prometheus, Alertmanager, Prometheus Operator, and Grafana Microsoft Azure Monitor – Azure monitor can be used if SAS Viya is deployed in a Microsoft Azure environment. Your preferred logging and monitoring technology – SAS Viya and Kubernetes allows for various monitoring tools to be used to gather metrics.   Do I need to be a Kubernetes administrator to administer SAS Viya? I've probably mentioned Kubernetes almost as much as SAS Viya in this. I won't say that you must be the Kubernetes administrator, but for some of the basic tasks I showed you, like checking if the backup ran, you will need to understand some Kubernetes. There are tasks associated with the environment that you will need elevated Kubernetes permissions for. You don't have to be a Kubernetes administrator, but a good knowledge of Kubernetes is needed. We have created two free e-courses to help you get started, Getting Started with SAS and Kubernetes and SAS Viya Administration: Getting Started.   What percentage of your clients who utilize SAS Viya do not use SAS on any other platform? (Estimate would be fine.) Unfortunately, we don’t have access to that information. I will say there are customers that SAS Viya is their first introduction to SAS. I don’t have exact numbers, however.   Where is the best place to find what are current hot fixes or patches for SAS Viya? SAS is still working on methods to alert customers of hot fixes. However, the process to update depends on whether you are using LTS or stable cadence. LTS would basically redownload the deployment assets and redeploy. The fix would be there. For stable, you would just move forward to pick it up in the next stable release.   How can I monitor user activity in SAS Viya 4? How can I audit them? You mentioned RTM in your other question that I responded to.4 SAS Workload Management is the grid equivalent in SAS Viya. You can run your SAS 9 programming jobs in a grid in SAS Viya.   How can I monitor user jobs in SAS Viya, like in SAS grid we have RTM portal to track it? What are the possibilities with SAS Enterprise Session Monitor for the SAS administrator? There is also a SAS utility called SAS Enterprise Session Monitor. ESM can be used to monitor and audit users as well. https://us.docs.boemskats.com/esm/2022.x/   Do you need BASE SAS to do work that you cannot do in SAS Viya? Are those two platforms, Cloud vs. Unix, interchangeable with SAS on it? Is it redundant to have SAS on both platforms? SAS code in SAS 9 can execute in SAS Viya, but the best option is to use SAS Content Assessment to analyze your SAS 9 components, code and objects to determine system readiness for SAS Viya. SAS 9 and SAS Viya are unique, stand-alone systems. You do not need one to use the other.   So you are saying they are redundant, and that there is no need to have both? I wouldn’t say redundant. SAS Viya and SAS9 are unique systems but can process your SAS programs on either.   In SAS Viya 4, is there any order standard to do stop, start? The Kubernetes pods are independent objects and Kubernetes takes care of all of the starting/stopping order.   I'd be interested in learning steps to go from SAS Viya 3.5 (Windows) to the more current Linux SAS Viya versions. From installing Linux on a Windows Server 2019 to installing SAS Viya on the Linux OS. This is the documentation for migration.   Does Viya have special user, like sasadm@saspw, like in SAS 9? The is one: sasboot. If you are having problems with loading the identities into Viya from LDAP/AD, that account provides a way to connect.   Please let us know the detailed information about the SPRE, microservices and controller and workers servers separately. SAS Programming Runtime Environment, often referred to as SPRE, includes several SAS Viya servers that run SAS programs and stored procedures in the form of jobs for processing using the SAS language.   Microservices are self-contained pieces of software that do one thing, depend on one another to the least extent possible, and are deployed independently. One or more instances of these processes can run at a time and in many instances have built-in fault tolerance.   Controllers are required components that direct code execution to the workers.   Which details, as an administrator, do I need to provide to my SAS users when they ask me how to call CAS action and actionsets via REST API? Is the REST API something which exists inside a Viya microservice? The administrator registers the REST API with SAS environment and provides a client id and secret. REST API technology is built into the SAS Viya via microservices. Here is a link outlining the process of registering a REST API in SAS Viya.   How to migrate SAS 9 contents to SAS Viya? Gerry Nelson from SAS wrote an excellent article in the SAS Communities Library discussing migrating from SAS 9.4 to SAS Viya. How Do I Migrate from SAS9 to SAS Viya?   Ask the Expert on setting up SAS Viya for Guest access to bypass kerberos authentication in SAS Viya 3.5. Is it possible to make a complete implementation of SAS Viya 3.5 where it is completely Guest access enabled with only additional access by members of the SAS Administrators? Guest access is an optional feature that provides anonymous Read-Only access to a subset of resources and functionality in some applications. Yes is the answer to your question. The admin team would have to give access to the reports to be viewed by guests that connect. If users are to create content, they cannot connect as a guest.   Does SAS Viya webservices startup take lot of time SAS 9? SAS Viya is completely web based and has microservices that share little to no dependency. The number of microservices you have will depend on the software you have purchased from SAS, but typically, the microservices don’t take a great deal of time to start. I haven’t run a stopwatch comparison, but I think you will experience less time because of the autonomy of the microservices.   Recent issue where I developed a Visual Analytics report in My Folder and only I had access to its data source. Then, later when I shared the report and granted access to the data source, when the user tried opening the report, they see the unable to load data source error message. I would have to dig a bit deeper to know for sure, but one issue may be how the data is being accessed. You created the report and possibly accessed the data as yourself. The user could not have the same level of access to the physical data (although you did give them access through SAS Viya) or the account they are using to open the report doesn’t have access to the data.   Could you please explain what is the role of postgresql db in SAS Viya? What does it store? Is it possible to interact with it programmatically as an admin to draw some insights? The SAS Infrastructure Data Server stores SAS Viya user content, such as reports, authorization rules, selected source definitions, attachments, and user preferences. SAS Viya uses High Availability (HA) PostgreSQL for SAS Infrastructure Data Server. You can use tools to connect to the PostgreSQL instance, but it is better gather information about your environment through SAS Monitoring tools.     Recommended Resources SAS Viya Administration Documentation Free Self-paced E-learning course: Getting Started with SAS Workload Management in SAS Viya Free Self-paced E-learning course: Getting Started with SAS and Kubernetes Free Self-paced E-learning course: SAS Viya Administration: Getting Started A Day in the Life of a SAS Platform Administrator Please see additional resources in the attached slide deck.   Want more tips? Be sure to subscribe to the Ask the Expert board to receive follow up Q&A, slides and recordings from other SAS Ask the Expert webinars ... View more

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There are two #FREE #elearning course offerings from SAS Education! The new courses are *SAS Viya Administration: Getting Started* and *SAS 9 Administration: Getting Started*. The courses come with 10 hours of lab time! Click the links below to register.   SAS Viya Administration: Getting Started   SAS 9 Administration: Getting Started ... View more

Watch this Ask the Expert session to learn the similarities and differences between SAS 9 and SAS Viya administration.  Watch the webinar   You’ll see a comparison of SAS Viya versus SAS 9 in terms of: User access. Data access. Server architecture. The questions from the Q&A segment held at the end of the webinar are listed below and the slides from the webinar are attached.   Q&A I would like to share a report created in SAS with an outside org. If I create a custom group, will they be able to view it/access? Though the custom group itself does not exist in your authentication provider, custom groups are created from combinations of users or groups that DO exist in your authentication provider. So, the answer is, no, you will not be able to share a report created in SAS with members of a customer group that contains members not in your authentication provider.   This looks like a Windows specific environment. How would your presentation be different if we had a Linux environment? The great thing about SAS Management Console and SAS Environment Manager is that the applications have the same look, feel and behavior regardless of the backend. There may be some minor differences, like where the menu items are located, but overall, the experience is the same. The backends would be a little different and what I did not get an opportunity to mention is that each offering, SAS 9, and SAS Viya, has command line access.  You can perform the same administration task or similar administration tasks that I showed you here using the command line tool available in each offering. Then of course, it is going to be based on the command lines for your operating system, Linux, or DOS.   How often do you recommend doing hot fixes on both 9.4 and Viya? Best answer: it depends. It is really going to be based on the type of administrator you are and how important that hot fix is. Sometimes our security hot fixes could fix something urgent like a security hole, so I recommend installing those as they come out. SAS has a great Community page now. If you are not a part of it, you can subscribe to the SAS Hot Fix Announcements and that will alert you to hot fixes. The good thing about SAS is that we are flexible when it comes to hot fixes, so applying them depends on your environment. So, if it is broken, fix it. But, beyond that, I would look at the maintenance releases. Or if you do not want to wait for the maintenance releases, I would also look at your overall system structure. How often do you update your system? What are your maintenance periods for your overall system? Then possibly incorporate the hotfixes during those times. There is no set schedule that SAS has as far as, “you have to apply the hot fixes at this certain time.” We do release critical hotfixes and when we release critical hotfixes, I would do those as soon as possible.   Are we getting 9.4 depot through GitHub instead of a download manager through SAS? I have not heard of that yet. A lot of deployments are moving that way, but I have not heard of SAS 9 integrating with such open-source tools yet.   When creating new users, you first add the users to a group and assign security/permissions, correct? Yes, the order is to create a metadata identity for the individual user, add that user to a group, and then add that group to the metadata object in question. That is what you would do in SAS 9. In SAS Viya users and groups are pulled from your authentication mechanism, so there is not the need to create new users. However, once the users have been added to SAS Viya, then you would add the users to the content, such as a folder, and secure.   Could we migrate SAS data from SAS 9.4 to SAS Viya 4? The answer is yes. Though the migration path could depend, but mostly it is s about making the data available, so definitely SAS data in SAS 9 to SAS data in SAS Viya is very much doable. You may have a few tweaks if it is a third-party data source, but the one important thing is that content / data / code running in SAS 9 today, by all intents and purposes and in the best theories, should run effectively today in SAS Viya with minimal changes.   Are there filters/mechanisms available to selectively pull users & groups from LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) in Viya or pull everyone? It is highly recommended that you use filters in your LDAP or authentication provider to only pull the users and groups you want into SAS Viya. In my experience, a SAS group in the authentication provider is created, and the desired users and groups are added to the SAS group as needed.   Can you pull users in with LDAP or Active Directory in 9.4 also or just manually adding? SAS 9 provides bulk load macros that connect to LDAP, /etc/password and other authentication mechanisms to import and synchronize users. The macros are used initially to load users into SAS 9, and then to synchronize users between your authentication mechanism and SAS.   Can you show how to remove a user from a data, library, group from view authorization? I never can delete. When viewing the authorization for SAS Viya, there is a space next to the principle. Click that space and the delete icon becomes available. You can then remove the principle.   Is it best to create CAS (Cloud Analytic Server) Lib when sorting out who has access to what reports? I advise before you ever point and click in a SAS application, that you have a plan. This especially is the case for concepts like security and giving access to content.   Can you advise if the current version of SAS 9.4 in existing HSBC environment supports and provides access to “Table Editor tagset” for creating PivotTable using SAS? Though I cannot speak to the HSBC environment specifically, SAS 9 does support and provide access to the “Tableeditor tagset”. The Tableeditor tagset must be downloaded. Please reach out to Chevell.Parker@sas.com if you have more questions. (Email given with his permission)   Is SAS Viya a separate SAS license? SAS 9 and SAS Viya each require their own license. The offerings do not share licenses.   Can you please show what My SAS is about and its interface, how to signup maybe? When you create a SAS profile, you will get a My SAS page. My SAS allows you to manage your SAS software, renew your SAS license, follow support tracks, and get access to SAS Cloud.   Does anything change in programming syntaxes and semantics between SAS 9 and SAS Viya, apart from SAS Viya architecture and processing being different from SAS 9? SAS 9 programs can run unmodified within SAS Viya.   Does SAS plan to release SAS 9.4 M8? SAS 9.4M7 shipped August 2020. I believe SAS will release SAS 9.4 M8, but I do not know the timeframe.   SAS 9 has some client software which are fat clients like SAS DI (Data Integration) studio, SAS EG (Enterprise Guide), SAS Information Map, etc . As I can understand, SAS Viya will only have thin clients like SAS Studio as a replacement. What is SAS going to provide in SAS Viya as a replacement for SAS Information Studio because SAS solutions like SAS CI (Customer Intelligence) 360 are fully dependent on Imap at the moment. Does SAS Viya have an alternative? SAS Information Maps are metadata objects and SAS Viya does not have metadata. I do not have an exact answer as far as a replacement for SAS Information Studio, but I do know SAS is working diligently to incorporate solutions into SAS Viya.   How does SAS 9.4 Grid differ from SAS Viya? SAS 9 Grid and Viya are integrated in many ways as noted in this SAS Global Forum paper (https://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/sas-global-forum-proceedings/2020/4577-2020.pdf). However, one of the most significant differences is how SAS 9 Grid and SAS Viya handle distributed processing. SAS Viya leverages the CAS server, and SAS 9 Grid uses the SAS Grid Manager. The following two articles go into more detail in answering this question:   https://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/sas-global-forum-proceedings/2020/4577-2020.pdf   https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/SAS-Grid-Manager-and-SAS-Viya-Comparing-Capabilities/ta-p/665896   How does SAS Viya boost processing power? SAS Viya uses the CAS server. The CAS server performs better because it can retain data from one action to the next action rather than having to reload the same data from disk for each action.   Does SAS have an online certification program? Cost? Yes, we have an online certification program. Please visit our site to learn more.   No metadata in Viya? Maybe not, but you can get a lot of info from the CLI (Command Line Interfaces) interfaces, which are great. You are correct there is no metadata in SAS Viya. There is no monolithic process like the metadata server. However, SAS Viya does have infrastructure servers that contain information needed by the system. The SAS Configuration Server and the SAS Infrastructure Data Server handle this functionality.   How can I install SAS Management console SAS admin on my desktop? Steps provided by Stefan Giuros in the SAS Administration and Deployment Communities page... Make the SAS depot accessible to your workstation, either by copying it or by using a shared folder. As a local administrator on the workstation, execute, from SAS depot directory, setup.exe. Choose the language or accept English by default. In the "Select Deployment Task" window, choose "Install SAS Software" and click Next. Note: at this point, if (a) you already have some SAS software already deployed on the workstation and (b) the SAS version of the depot is newer than the SAS version deployed, then SAS Deployment Wizard will ask you to update the existing SAS software deployed. You should allow updating and, when this process finishes, the SAS Deployment Wizard will close. You should launch it again at shown at point 2 above. In the "Select Deployment Type" window, choose "Install SAS Foundation and Related Software" and click Next. In the "Select Products to Install" window, do the following: In "Products to Install" dropbox select "Clients Only" Be sure that "SAS Management Console" checkbox is selected. You may want to un-check clients you do not need. Something like: Click Next In "Specify SAS Installation Data File" window, specify the SID file (it is OK to have the Linux SID) or leave the default selection. In the "Select Language Support" window, select languages you need. Wait for "Checking System" windows to complete. Perform deployment. Does the SAS identity management/Open LDAP support nested groups in AD (Active Directory)? Are there any limitations? SAS supports nested groups without any limitations.   What about roles in SAS Viya? SAS Viya supports roles, but not in the same manner as SAS 9. Roles and capabilities in SAS 9 have been replaced by rules and custom groups. In SAS Viya, you control access to functionality through membership in custom groups and assigning principals (users and groups) to rules.   If you create a custom group, does it get written to the LDAP? No, SAS Viya only pulls from LDAP. The identities service does not push.   How will authentication happen in SAS Viya when you set up configuration with Database Domain in Console Management without LDAP Authentication for database access? Does it require OS (Operating System) user to create database authentication? SAS Viya is going to attempt to use the credentials available. If the owner of the process is the CAS account, then that account needs database access. If the owner of the process is the user, then that account needs database access. Domains are managed in the interface and users have the ability to manage         their own accounts.   What is the major difference between SAS 9 vs SAS Viya while accessing tables? The major difference is that SAS Viya loads the data into memory for fast access. SAS 9 accesses the data on disk, unless using a LASR server.   Select data, if DB as a data source, then DB grants supersede Viya perm? Example, DB grants. SAS Viya security does not override database security. If the database grants permission and SAS Viya authorization denies permission, the user will not be able to access the database through visual interfaces. However, the user could still access the database through SAS programming interfaces.   Other than LDAP accounts, can we add Linux external accounts like SAS and CAS to give authorization to a folder? The CAS account is typically added to LDAP because that is the default account that the processing server runs under when using visual interfaces in SAS Viya. The SAS account is not typically added, but if adding that account meets your security requirements, then feel free to. The CAS account is added to some data sources in SAS Viya as needed, but it is not a customary practice to add the CAS account to folder authorization. However, if this also meets your security requirements, feel free to.   How do you create authorization control templates (act's) in SAS Viya? SAS Viya does not support Access Control Templates.   How do I manage the data if the data is in MongoDB? SAS has a SAS/ACCESS for MongoDB that includes SAS Data Connector to MongoDB. The data connector enables you to transfer large amounts of data between MongoDB and the CAS server for parallel processing.    What percentage of the installs are SAS 9.4 and what percentage is SAS Viya? Unfortunately, I do not have the statistics on the percentages of installations. SAS 9 has had and continues to have a great history. SAS 9 has also been around for longer. I am sure the number of sites with SAS 9 outnumber the number of sites with SAS Viya. However, I would think that the number of sites with new installations would favor SAS Viya. That is just a guess, and as I mentioned, I do not have the exact numbers.   Can I put the data into the data lake in a Parquet format? For the answer to this question, I have to again turn to our SAS Communities page. Please view the link below. It leads to a page that discusses SAS Viya and Parquet Data Files. https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/SAS-Viya-and-Parquet-Data-Files/ta-p/765869   How can data loading be automated? You can create jobs in SAS Viya and schedule those jobs to load and unload data.   Is there any tool to move/migrate easily from SAS 9 to SAS Viya? In SAS 9 we have import /export tool? SAS Viya can take advantage of the import/export process as well. You can import SAS 9 packages into SAS Viya with proper mapping. However, if you are considering moving from SAS 9 to SAS Viya, I suggest you use the SAS 9 Content Assessment. The SAS 9 Content Assessment is a collection of applications designed to help you understand the various characteristics of your SAS 9 deployment.   You can download the SAS 9 Content Assessment using the following link: https://support.sas.com/downloads/package.htm?pid=2465   Will there be any more SAS versions post SAS 9.4 or now only Viya will be used in the future? The current version of SAS 9 is SAS 9.4M7. There is going to be a SAS 9.4M8 release.   What are the advantages of PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) in SAS Viya? I do not know if this is considered an advantage but configuring PAM for your CAS server enables you to control how SAS Viya performs authentication.   If you have created SAS webapps using a stored process server - can you still use them - or what is the alternate to using them? SAS Viya does not support web applications created using a SAS Stored Process.   How does SAS Viya handle SAS stored processes? Does SAS Viya have SAS stored processes? SAS Viya does not support SAS Stored processes as you know them in SAS 9. SAS Viya supports Jobs, and the Job functionality is similar to the SAS 9 Stored Process.   Does SAS Viya require a public cloud like Azure or AWS (Amazon Web Services) because banking clients are still hesitant to move to the cloud? Does SAS Viya have an option for on-prem machines? Currently SAS does not offer an on-premise option for SAS Viya. An option is expected later in 2021. I do not have a date for that option.   Can we have the GitHub reference please? (For SAS material that you mentioned during the webinar) The main SAS Software GitHub repository is found at https://github.com/sassoftware/ If you enter “iac” in the search field, you will get to the infrastructure as code projects for the different providers.   I am a SAS 9 user. I would like to know more about the difference from the user environment / interface point of view between SAS 9 and SAS Viya. The following document is a great resource to understand the differences between SAS Viya and SAS 9. https://support.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/technical-papers/sas9-4-sas-viya-functional-comparison.pdf   We heard SAS Viya is good for analytics purposes, but you cannot use it as an ETL tool, is that true? If not, how effective will it be if we use it as an ETL tool? SAS provides SAS Data Studio and programming interfaces for data quality operations.   SAS 9 provides automated ways to maintain users & groups with SAS code (cfr. sample program "importad.sas") you can run to synchronize with your authentication provider (which Viya also does, directly as I have understood), but also macros to report security, batch utilities to create (sas-make-act) & apply ACT's (sas-set-metadata-access), folders (sas-make-folder), libraries and so on with metadata-functions and alike. Is this possible in Viya too and how do you accomplish this? Are there similar "batch utilities", a one-to-one mapping perhaps? SAS offers the SAS Viya command-line interface (CLI) that allows you to enter commands on a command line and receive responses from the system. You can set security (though ACTs (Access Control Templates) are not supported in SAS Viya), add content, and manage resources.   The SAS Viya CLI can be downloaded here https://support.sas.com/downloads/package.htm?pid=2512   Does SAS offer free courses for 9.4? You can find information about our free training here.   Can those two free courses (links to them) get posted in the resources widget? SAS Platform Administration: Getting Started The second class should be released in the next few weeks.   Does the EG application work with SAS Viya? Yes, if configured properly you can connect to SAS Viya and establish a CAS server session using SAS Enterprise Guide.   We have a highly customized and automated SAS 9 environment, based on the batch utilities to create folders, security groups, libraries, etc. Everything gets generated and applied in an automated way. Since we have spent a lot of time developing the setup, is there some kind of conversion utility from SAS 9 to Viya for those specifics? I recommend the SAS 9 Content Assessment to evaluate the readiness of your environment to move from SAS 9 to SAS Viya. The SAS 9 Content Assessment can be downloaded here: https://support.sas.com/downloads/package.htm?pid=2465   Recommended Resources SAS Viya Getting Started (free e-course) SAS Viya Administration Fast Track (3.5 course) SAS Viya Administration (based on Viya 2020.1.0) SAS® 9.4 and SAS® Viya® Functional Comparison Migrating from SAS® 9.4 to SAS® Viya® 3.5 SAS Users Group for Administrators & Architects   Want more tips? Be sure to subscribe to the Ask the Expert board to receive follow up Q&A, slides and recordings from other SAS Ask the Expert webinars.   ... View more

Hi SAS Viya, I’m presenting a live “Ask the Expert” webinar on January 6 th , 11 AM – Noon ET entitled How Are SAS ® 9 and SAS ® Viya ® Administration Different? I’ll do a comparison of architecture, users and group data, and security. Bring your questions. I’ll also host a live Q&A session at the end of the webinar. We will compare Viya versus SAS®9 in terms of: User access. Data access. Server architecture. Reserve your spot for the webinar.   Want more tips? Be sure to subscribe to the Ask the Expert board to receive follow up Q&A, slides and recordings from this and other SAS Ask the Expert webinars. ... View more

Hi SAS Architecture, I’m presenting a live “Ask the Expert” webinar on January 6 th , 11 AM – Noon ET entitled How Are SAS ® 9 and SAS ® Viya ® Administration Different? I’ll do a comparison of architecture, users and group data, and security. Bring your questions. I’ll also host a live Q&A session at the end of the webinar. We will compare Viya versus SAS®9 in terms of: User access. Data access. Server architecture. Reserve your spot for the webinar.   Want more tips? Be sure to subscribe to the Ask the Expert board to receive follow up Q&A, slides and recordings from this and other SAS Ask the Expert webinars.   Can't join the live event? You can view this and other Ask the Expert sessions on-demand here. ... View more

Hi SAS Administration and Deployment Community, I’m presenting a live “Ask the Expert” webinar on January 6 th , 11 AM – Noon ET entitled How Are SAS ® 9 and SAS ® Viya ® Administration Different? I’ll do a comparison of architecture, users and group data, and security. Bring your questions. I’ll also host a live Q&A session at the end of the webinar. We will compare Viya versus SAS®9 in terms of: User access. Data access. Server architecture. Reserve your spot for the webinar.   Want more tips? Be sure to subscribe to the Ask the Expert board to receive follow up Q&A, slides and recordings from this and other SAS Ask the Expert webinars.   Can't join the live event? You can view this and other Ask the Expert sessions on-demand here.  ... View more