What's New in Desktop Application Administration for the SAS 9.3 Intelligence Platform

Overview

The SAS Intelligence Platform: Desktop Application Administration Guide contains new and updated administrative tasks that are associated with seven client applications.

Documentation Enhancements

For SAS 9.3, the SAS Intelligence Platform: Desktop Application Administration Guide contains enhancements for the following applications.

SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office

The chapter for the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office now addresses the following administrative topics:

Migrate SAS content between releases, either automatically, or using a migration wizard. See Migrate SAS Content.
Maintain multiple versions of the SAS Add-in on a single host. You select the release that you want to run by selecting a utility. See Manage Multiple Instances On a Single Host.
Administer the use of SAS content in Outlook instant messages. See Administer Publishing by Instant Message.
Use a SAS grid for parallel processing. See Configure the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office for Grid Computing.
Use capabilities to confgure access to SAS comments, dashboards, and OLAP cubes in Outlook. See Administer SAS Functionality in Microsoft Outlook.
Set options to govern refresh rates for SAS functionality in Outlook. See Set Refresh Options for SAS Functionality in Outlook.
Roles and capabilities have been added and changed. See Default Roles and Capabilities for the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office.

SAS Enterprise Guide

The chapter for SAS Enterprise Guide now addresses the following administrative topics:

The SAS Enterprise Guide chapter now documents all of the administrative tasks that are performed with SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer. Included are all tasks that apply to the use of local repositories, when you are not using a SAS Metadata Server. This chapter now supersedes and replaces the document Administering SAS Enterprise Guide.
Roles and capabilities have been added and changed. See Default Roles and Capabilities for SAS Enterprise Guide.

SAS Data Integration Studio

The SAS Data Integration Studio chapter now documents administrative tasks associated with the DataFlux Data Management Platform. The chapter now includes updates to the data quality configuration topics. See Setting Up the SAS Data Quality Server Software.

SAS Enterprise Miner

The technical content in the SAS Enterprise Miner chapter is now provided in the document SAS Enterprise Miner: Administration and Configuration.