Alternative option to updating the services file on the local computer

[Former Member]

Hi,

Our project needs to add updates to the file C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services in order to allow excel reports to work from the SAP enterprise portal.

The client will need to apply this change in the services file to all the desktop computers of the end-users. They are now asking whether there is an alternative solution to updating the services file on the local machine. Our team does not think that there is one but maybe one of you experts out there can provide some more insight.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Best Regards,

Giwan Persaud

[former_member66264 · Accepted solution]

For our normal sapgui rollout we never change the services file.

This is only possible if you change in saplogon.ini the MSSrvPort section, the names to numbers:

instead of

Item88=sapmsPS1

you use

Item88=3600

Then you don't need the services file ( excepte the standard ones which you can rollout once )

sapdp*

sapgw*

you to check if this works for Excel also!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thanks for the information. It was helpful but it would still require an update on the computers of the end-users so for us the result was the same. In the end we decided that the only way to go was to have the client roll-out a new update to all of it's users.

Thanks.

Giwan