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High-Level Timeline

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By end-of-day Nov 4 - Plan, create/update test scripts in ALM. (SAP Business Areas)

End of day production snapshot from

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20/

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2021 to be used to refresh SF3 and SH1 environments

End of day production snapshot from 10/

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2021 to be used to refresh SH2 environments

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Refer to calendar for detailed time frames

2021 SAP Support Pack Upgrade - Calendar View----------

Oct

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15-25: SF3 upgrade

Oct 22 at 5PM: start of SF2 restricted window

Oct 25-28: SF2 upgrade

Oct 26 at 5PM: start of SH2 restricted window

Oct 27-Nov 3: SH2 refresh and upgrade

Nov 4-5: IS&T Controlled Payroll Test

Nov 8-30: SH2 business testing

Dec 1 -Dec 3

Oct 19 - take snapshot for SH2 refresh -

Oct 14 - Last transport meeting for production support & enhancement changes until support pack work is complete -

Oct 8 - Oct 14 - SAP release of year end base level support pack (SAP) -

Oct 21 5PM - SF2 restricted development mode starts - 

Oct 22 - Nov 6: Automated Testing SF3 -

Oct 22 - Oct 23 - Unit test  SF3 - IS&T and EpiUse Support Teams (Facilities, Finance, HR, R3, Release Engineering, SAP ABAP) - 

Oct 26 - Nov 4 - Unit test  SF2 - IS&T and EpiUse Support Teams (Facilities, Finance, HR, R3, Release Engineering, SAP ABAP) -

Nov 5-Nov 6 -  Controlled Payroll Run Test  - (IS&T HR and EpiUse Support Team) -

Nov 6-Nov 25 - System Integration Test  (Central Office Business Teams) -

Nov 6 - VPF test to compare year-to-date tax information with production -

Nov 6-Nov 25 - Bug fixes and regression testing (Central Office Business Teams, IS&T and EpiUse) -

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- Uptime Production Cut-over Activities -

Dec

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3-Dec

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5 - Go-live weekend! (start Friday at 5pm)

Dec

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6 - Upgraded  PS1 is ready for use

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SAP Scheduled Upgrades - Ancillary Systems

ERP Target

ERP:

GRC:

ERP:

-- EHP8 for ERP 6.0 SPS 17 w/HR SP 0098

with -- SAP KERNEL 7.53 64-BIT UNICODE PL 801

with -- SMERP 630_740 SP 0008

with -- SMFND 630_740 SP 0008

NetWeaver/GRC:

-- NetWeaver 7.52 SPS 09

with -- GRC Access Control 12.0 SPS 14

with -- SAP KERNEL 7.53 64-BIT UNICODE PL 801 

NetWeaver/ADS:

 -- NetWeaver 750 SPS22 w/JVM 8.1.080 and XI3RDPARTY SP22

SAP Mobile: