1. Monday by 9am - Post messages on insideMIT, SAPweb and ESS (Employee Self Service) web sites about upcoming SAP outage.
2. Monday by 10am - Post message on ECAT web site about upcoming SAP outage.
3. Monday 10am - Begin online upgrade piece of the application of Enhancement Pack(s)
4. Monday 12pm - Post message on SAPgui indicating upcoming SAP outage
5. Monday by 5pm - Confirm that there are no GuiXT Changes
6. Monday by 5pm - Send message to MIT-SAP community about upcoming SAP outage.
7. Tuesday 10:30am - Cutover weekend planning meeting IS&T.
8. Tuesday 12pm - Steering Committee Meeting – review cut-over plan/ Go/No-go decision – W92
9. Tuesday by 5pm - Email Steering Committee Go/No-go decision
10. Wednesday 10:30am - 12pm - SAPbiz meeting to review the Production Cutover schedule and details, including action log and user support
11. Wednesday 2:00 - 3:00pm - Final review all issues in RT project queue, transport list, and web components.
12. Wednesday 3:00 - 4:00pm - SAP Action log team meeting to review the Production Cutover action log.
13. Wednesday by EOD - Final Copy of the Production Update Schedule published and emailed.
14. Wednesday by EOD - R3-Admin email message about system down time
15. Thursday by 4pm - Schedule Pre & Post Trial Balance reports to be used by R3-Admin for controlled data comparisons.
16. Friday by 2pm - Facility supervisors print out work lists as back up for Monday Morning.
17. Friday by 12 Noon - Reschedule (shift) DW batch jobs to Sunday night (10PM & 12AM).
18. Friday by 4:20pm - Shift Concur outbound execution from 5:00 pm to 4:20pm
19. Friday by 4:30pm - Suspend weekend MITSIS Grad Appointment Feed
20. Friday by 5:00pm - Workflow and JV Validation Reports
21. Friday 4:35pm - Stop EDI Production Jobs (5 Minutes)
22. Friday 5pm - Shut down EDI application server
23. Friday 5pm - Voice message update when system goes down (617-324-7468)
24. Friday 5pm - System Downtime Message (3 Down)
25. Friday 5pm - Bring down application servers. Production Environment becomes unavailable to users
26. Friday 5pm - Disable Gateways: Enable “PS1 System Unavailable” redirect on SAPweb & Self Service/insideMIT web sites (including EHS specific message activating their manual reporting of injuries)
27. Friday 5pm - Suspend Drop-box processing.
28. Friday 5:00 - 7:00pm - Validation Reports (Trial Balance) executed in SAP.
29. Friday 5:00 -7:00pm - Limited activity in PS1.
30. Friday 7:00pm - 12:00am - Backup PS1.
31. Saturday 12am - 9am - SAP ERP: Execute support pack application; includes BSI upgrade.
32. Saturday 9am-1pm - Backup System (R-MAN)
33. Saturday 1pm - 9pm - Execute concurrently: Generate DB Statistics (6 – 8 hours) Complete ABAP Loads (5 hours)
34. Saturday 4pm - Conference Call Check-in Core Team Check in at 4pm on Saturday (use conference call webex line)
35. Saturday 9pm - Restore WT Table (once loads are done)
36. Saturday 9pm-10pm - Transports Application – after the completion of the ABAP Loads
37. Saturday 10pm - Set Production Flag for Finance
38. Saturday 10:30pm - Validation reports executed (trial balance reports)
39. Sunday 1:30am - 7:00am - On Line back up of PS1 (reestablishment of SRDF mirroring).
40. Sunday 8-9am - TB Validation reports validated
41. Sunday 8-10am - R3-Admin Action Log
42. Sunday 8am - Unlock web-services ids in Production
43. Sunday 8am - Enable Gateways (SAPWeb/ESS); after verifying application connections.
44. Sunday by 10am - Execute SAP report SEGREP to update segment length in the table EDISDEF
45. Sunday by 10am - EDI Step 1 Turn on the EDI “gourmet-1” server (start EDI)
46. Sunday by 10am - EDI (TLE) Step 2a Update SAP EDI Version number
47. Sunday 10am - EDI (TLE) Step 2b Load new BEN mappings (TLE)
48. Sunday 10:30am - EDI Step 3 Start EDI Jobs
49. Sunday by 11am - EDI Step 4 (last step) Schedule EDI Job
50. Sunday by 10am - Email to ist-sap@mit.edu • List of transports applied and any related issues. • List of jobs shifted in PS1 during cutover
51. Sunday 10am - 12pm - • ADMIN SYS Action Log users unlocked • ADMIN SYS executes the PS1 Action Log / Validations and email steps completed to rest of the team (sap-action-log-team@mit.edu) • ADMIN SYS Extended Team reviews transport logs
52. Sunday by 12 Noon - Unlock validators (testers)
53. Sunday by 12 Noon - Update voice message whether or not Data Validation is on schedule.
54. Sunday 12pm - 2pm - PS1 Data Validations & Transaction processing
55. Sunday by 2pm - Coordinators for each area should send email to sap-validation-team@mit.edu at the completion of validations indicating any issues encountered.
56. Sunday 2:30pm - Conference Call Check-in Go/No Go conference call Sunday webex Line
57. Sunday after conference call - Send e-mail to (sapbiz, sap-upgrade-core, ist-sap@mit.edu,warehouse@mit.edu, Elena@mit.edu,) indicating decisions/results.
58. Sunday 3pm-5pm - Unlock users (Facilities, SMART) Unlock all users (R3-Admin notifies operations center at 3-1500).
59. Sunday 5pm - Enable Drop box
60. Sunday by 5pm - Execute ProCard from Bank of America Feed
61. Sunday 8pm-12am - Data Warehouse Job Validation
62. Monday 1:30am - On Line back up of PS1 (reestablishment of SRDF mirroring).
63. Monday by 6am - Update the 3-down web page & SAPgui message.
64. Monday by 6am - Remove SAP outage message on ECAT webpage.
65. Monday by 6am - Remove SAPweb, ESS and EHS messages
66. Monday by 6am - Validate SAPweb, ESS and EHS messages have been removed (verify in IE, Firefox, Safari)
67. Monday 6am - Email notification to the MIT Community stating the update is completed and Production is available.
68. Monday 9am - Reinstate weekend MITSIS Grad Appointment Feed