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There may be some times where you need to redeploy Landmark and the applications.  This should be done with every CU maintenance, but also can be done in between if there seem to be issues with one or more applications. This process will not reinstall your Landmark and Applications, it will just stage and redeploy what is already there.

The two commands are:
stagelandmark –rebuild –all
activatelandmark –all

After staging and deploying, you will need to generate and propagate the web server plugins in IBM.  Then, you will restart the web server in ISS (do an IIS reset or restart the WWW Windows service).  Finally, you will reboot the WebSphere application server.

Problem: A user doesn’t see their tasks to approve in Lawson

Example of Inbasket missing tasks on left column:

In Process Server Administrator or Lawson Rich Client, verify the user didn’t have a recent name change and that their task filters are setup correctly in Landmark:

Regularly generating reports and maintaining your requisition process level filters is key to avoiding these work flow issues which can delay important equipment, supplies etc. for weeks.

To avoid these pitfalls, some organizations hire Lawson consultants that offer managed services to perform such maintenance to prevent these recurring issues. It’s a common alternative instead of solely relying on a single Lawson employee who is expected to have wide set of expertise on all these systems.

When the ADFS Token-Signing certificate is updated on the ADFS server, it will have to be imported to Lawson and Infor OS.  The networking team should let the Lawson team know when the certificate is being updated in ADFS.

The networking team will need to export the certificate and provide you with the “.cer” file before these tasks can be completed.

Update the Certificate in Lawson

1. Log onto the Lawson Server
2. Start a ssoconfig -c session
3. Go to “Manage WS Federation Settings” > “Manage Certificates”
4. Select “Delete IdP certificate”
   1. Enter the IdP service name for your ADFS configuration
      
5. Select “Import IdP Certificate”
   1. Enter the IdP service name for your ADFS configuration
   2. Provide the full path where you have the token-signing certificate saved
      

Reboot the server

Update the Certificate in Landmark

1. Open a LMK command line window
2. Type in secadm -m
3. Type the password
4. Manage WS Federation Settings > Manage WS Federation Certificate
5. Select “Delete IdP Certificate”
   1. Enter the IdP service name for your ADFS configuration
   2. Property name is IdPSigningCertificate
6. Exit
7. Select “Import IdP Certificate”
   1. Enter the IdP service name for your ADFS configuration
   2. Provide the full certificate path
   3. Property name is IdPSigningCertificate
      

Update the Certificate in Infor OS

Log into the Infor OS server as the LAWSON user

Double-click on the desktop icon for InforOSManager

Go to Identity providers on the left side

Double-click on the identity provider

Select “From URL” to import the new certificate and metadata

Provide the URL: https://<adfsserver>/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml

Click “Load”

Make sure the certificates load (there may only be one, but there should be at least one)

 Reboot the server