How to write a LinkedIn recommendation? What are the key things to touch on or highlight?

I covered the benefits of endorsing trusted teammate skills and writing recommendations for close professional associates as a tools to build goodwill, drive engagement with your LinkedIn profile and also boost its SEO relevance for recruiters using search engines to scout for candidates in your field of work. Make sure to also read my post on ways to boost your profile as a passive job seeker.

Writing a LinkedIn recommendation for a co-worker involves highlighting their key skills, achievements, and your personal experience working with them.

Here is a list of topics to touch on for inspiration as you write your recommendation, at the end I am including an example of a recommendation, the key elements to include:

1. Professional Relationship:

  • Begin with Context: Start by explaining how you know the person and your professional relationship.


2. Key Skills & Strengths:

  • Highlight Skills: Focus on 2-3 key skills or strengths that make your co-worker stand out.
  • Provide Examples: Use specific examples to demonstrate their skills and expertise.


3. Achievements:

  • Mention Accomplishments: Outline any significant accomplishments, contributions, or projects they’ve led or contributed to.
  • Results and Impacts: If possible, quantify the impacts and results of their work within your project, organization or internal to your team’s culture.


4. Personal Qualities:

  • Interpersonal Skills: Touch on their teamwork, mentorship, leadership, and communication skills.
  • Character Attributes: Discuss attributes like dependability, creativity, or problem-solving abilities.


5. Endorsement:

  • Personal Endorsement: End with a strong statement of recommendation, indicating your confidence in their abilities and contributions to future employers.
    • Would you work with them again?
    • Would you recommend them for leadership positions and as mentors or sponsors?
    • Would you trust them to lead large projects in your organization?


Sample Recommendation:

I had the pleasure of working with [Co-worker’s Name] for [X years] at [Company Name], where we were both [Your Roles]. [Co-worker’s Name] is not only adept at [Key Skill 1] and [Key Skill 2], but also is a natural leader and team player.

One of [Co-worker’s Name]’s standout qualities is their ability to [Specific Skill or Achievement, e.g., “turn complex problems into actionable, manageable tasks”]. In our time working together, they spearheaded a project that [Explain the Project, Result, and Impact, e.g., “led to a 30% increase in customer satisfaction”].

On a personal level, [Co-worker’s Name]’s ability to build and maintain relationships is unparalleled. They are [Include Personal Qualities, e.g., “dependable, creative, and solution-oriented”], making them a favorite among clients and colleagues alike.

I wholeheartedly recommend [Co-worker’s Name] for any team looking to add a dedicated and innovative professional. They would no doubt be a valuable asset to any organization.
Modify this template according to the specific skills, achievements, and personal qualities of your co-worker to make your recommendation personal and impactful.

How does giving recommendations and endorsing team mate skills on LinkedIn benefit my profile ranking?

Giving recommendations and endorsing skills on LinkedIn can positively influence your professional reputation and visibility, although it may not directly boost your profile ranking internally on LinkedIn, it will highly benefit it’s ranking on search engines like Google whose advanced search features are preferred by some recruiters scouting for great candidates within your field of work. Here are specific ways it can benefit you:

1. Professional Reputation:

  • Credibility: By endorsing skills and writing recommendations, you show that you acknowledge and appreciate the expertise of others, which enhances your credibility.
  • Authority: Giving well-articulated recommendations can position you as an authority in your field.

2. Networking and Relationships:

  • Reciprocity: Endorsing or recommending someone can often lead to them returning the favor, which can enhance your profile’s credibility.
  • Networking: This practice strengthens your professional relationships and keeps you on top of mind among your connections.

3. Engagement:

  • Visibility: Your activity is visible to your connections, keeping your profile active and engaging.
  • Content Creation: Recommendations contribute to content on LinkedIn, boosting your overall activity and engagement.

4. Skills Validation:

  • Trust: When you endorse skills, it’s a validation from a real person, building trust and authenticity.
  • Expertise: Your endorsements can sometimes reflect your ability to judge and recognize skills, contributing to your image as an expert.

5. SEO Benefits:

  • Keywords: Recommendations often contain relevant keywords that can enhance the search visibility of your profile indirectly.
  • Backlinks: Each time a connection publishes your recommendation on their profile a backlink to your profile is created, this is an implicit endorsement of your profile for Google’s algorithm. It will also, on occasion, will drive recruiters and other connections browsing that profile back to yours.
  • Search Ranking: Increased engagement and activity can potentially improve your visibility in LinkedIn search results.

6. Professional Image:

  • Positivity: Giving recommendations and endorsements reflects positively on your professional image as someone supportive and appreciative.
  • Community Engagement: It shows you’re actively engaged in supporting and uplifting your professional community.

Key Takeaways:

  • Reciprocal Benefits: Giving recommendations and endorsements can often result in receiving them, enhancing the richness and credibility of your profile.
  • Engagement: Active participation on LinkedIn, including giving recommendations and endorsements, increases your profile’s visibility and engagement.

While these activities may not directly impact your “ranking” on LinkedIn, they contribute to a richer, more credible, and engaging profile, increasing your visibility and attractiveness to other professionals, recruiters, and potential employers. They also foster a positive professional image and strengthen your network. Ensure your endorsements and recommendations are genuine to maximize their impact.

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What are ways to boost your LinkedIn profile as a passive job seeker?

Even as a passive job seeker, it’s essential to maintain and boost your LinkedIn profile to stay visible and attractive to potential employers. Here are some strategies to build goodwill and enhance your profile:

1. Profile Optimization:

  • Professional Photo: Use a clear, professional photo to make a positive first impression.
  • Update Information: Ensure your profile is up-to-date with your latest achievements, skills, and experiences.

2. Networking:

  • Connect: Grow your network by connecting with professionals in and outside of your industry.
  • Engage: Comment, like, and share posts from close connections and past associates that is relevant to your field. This will help their content as well as surface this content to your own network.

3. Content Sharing and Creation:

  • Share Useful Content: Regularly share articles, news, and updates related to your industry.
  • Write Articles: Publish articles on LinkedIn to showcase your knowledge and insights.

4. Recommendations and Endorsements:

  • Give Recommendations: Write recommendations for your colleagues to build goodwill, this also creates backlinks to your profile boosting it on search engines such as Google.
  • Give Endorsements: Networking is a team sport, make it a habit to endorse skills you know your close associates to possess when visiting their profiles. When you endorse skills of close associates you boost their profile and your own as a link back to your profile is created for each skill you endorse.
  • Request Recommendations: Politely ask for recommendations to strengthen your profile. Share these articles with them so they can realize the benefits of endorsing trusted professional associates.

5. Skills and Accomplishments:

  • List Skills: Make sure to list all relevant skills and get them endorsed by your connections.
  • Highlight Achievements: Update your accomplishments, certificates, and projects.
  • Reorder your skills: Make sure to re-order your listed skills from time to time, boosting unendorsed skills to the top so that people visiting your profile view them and endorse them first.

6. Join Groups:

  • Participate: Join and actively participate in LinkedIn groups related to your field.
  • Network: Use groups to network with like-minded professionals and potential employers.

7. Profile Badge:

  • LinkedIn Badge: Create a LinkedIn Badge and add it to your email signature, blog, or website.

8. Learning:

  • LinkedIn Learning: Complete LinkedIn Learning courses and add certificates to your profile.

9. Career Interests:

  • Settings: Update “Career interests” settings to be approachable by recruiters, even if you’re not actively looking.

10. Volunteer Work:

  • Add Volunteer Experience: This can be a great way to showcase your skills and contributions to the community.

Bonus Tip:

  • Analytics: Use LinkedIn analytics to understand your profile’s reach and engagement, and adjust your strategies accordingly.

Implementing these strategies will not only enhance your LinkedIn profile but also build goodwill in your professional network. Even as a passive job seeker, staying active and engaged on LinkedIn can open up unexpected opportunities.

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How To: Manage your Oracle patch deployment life cycle using Oracle Support Patch Plans

Introduction

 

As part of my writing I often try to document and share best practices I develop on my day to day work, this one relates to formalizing the patch deployment process for your oracle environments. This approach is developed for organizations that have formal release cycles and have established procedures to take patches through test life cycles that; at a minimum, begin in a develop environment, followed by integration testing in a QA and culminate when patches are promoted to production.

I will try to keep this post brief so, at a high level, I have found that the best way to manage patches is to use the Oracle support portal patch & upgrades functionality to create a patch plan for each environment in the life cycle for either each major release or at least each quarter. This process is always initiated by the need to apply a patch so whenever no patches are necessary during a release or quarter no patch plans are created.

The two main benefits of this approach is (1) that it brings transparency into which patches have been approved for each environment, (2) it is a straight forward process that does not carry a lot of overhead. The way patches make it to a patch plan is when a project manager requests a patch to be applied or promoted to each environment in your life cycle, this in turn is monitored using standard project management mechanisms such as issue, task and test management.

 

Implementation

Creating your first patch plan is very simple, just take your first requested patch through the process outlined below.

 

  1. Login to http://support.oracle.com
  2. Click on the Patches & Updates tab
  3. Locate the appropriate version of your patch by specifying a patch number and operating system on the patch search interface

    Locate the appropriate version of your patch by specifying a patch number and operating system on the patch search interface

  4. Locate your patch on the search results screen and click on Add to Plan > Add to new …

    Locate your patch on the search results screen and click on Add to Plan > Add to new ...

  5. Locate the a valid target application server or host name using the search box
  6. Provide a patch plan name using your company’s naming standard and click create plan

    An example naming convention I have used in the past, this particular one allows system administrators to sort by date and to manage patch plans by product:

    – – – approved patches

    Provide a patch plan name using your company's naming standard and click create plan

  7. To add any additional requested patches to your plan go back to Patches & Updatesand select your plan from the Plans list and click on the Add Patch… button.

Having this patching plan makes it easy to manage patch deployment through your environments. As for the actual deployment of each patch, I am a command line geek and like the ability to make sure that each individual patch deployment works correctly by running OPatch for each individual package.

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Configuring OBIEE to run as a Windows Service

Introduction

One key step to configuring an enterprise deployment of Oracle Business Intelligence is to be setup your services to run in the background as Windows services and start automatically with your server.  By default the installer will create windows services for Oracle Process Manager (OPMN) and the Weblogic Node Manager, this leaves us with the need to configure services for the Weblogic AdminServer and the BI Managed Server.

Pre-requisites

  • Verify boot.properties files exist for both Weblogic Servers

    AdminServer:
    %mw_home%\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\AdminServer\security\boot.properties

    BI Managed Server:
    %mw_home%\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\bi_server1\security\boot.properties

  • Define the MW_HOME Variable
  • Edit %MW_HOME%\wlserver_10.3\server\bin\installSvc.cmd to redirect standard output to a file and to set the service name prefix to “Oracle_”

    Log Syntax:
    -log:”%MW_HOME%\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\%SERVER_NAME%-stdout.txt”

    Example Customization:

    set MW_HOME=%WL_HOME%\..\

    rem *** Install the service”
    %WL_HOME%\server\bin\beasvc” -install -svcname:”Oracle_%DOMAIN_NAME%_%SERVER_NAME%” -javahome:”%JAVA_HOME%” -execdir:”%USERDOMAIN_HOME%” -maxconnectretries:”%MAX_CONNECT_RETRIES%” -host:”%HOST%” -port:”%PORT%” -extrapath:”%EXTRAPATH%” -password:”%WLS_PW%” -cmdline:%CMDLINE% -log:”%MW_HOME%\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\%SERVER_NAME%-stdout.txt”

    Note: Make sure you replace beasvc and the subsequent space with Oracle_ on the section for -svcname

  • Change the environment script

    %MW_HOME%\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\bin\setOBIDomainEnv.cmd

  • Edit %MW_HOME%\wlserver_10.3\server\bin\installSvc.cmd to ensure the correct Java memory arguments are utilized by your windows service

    Old Code:
    call “%WL_HOME%\common\bin\commEnv.cmd”
    New Code:
    call “%WL_HOME%\..\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\bin\setOBIDomainEnv.cmd”

  • Edit %MW_HOME%\wlserver_10.3\server\bin\installSvc.cmd to implement a workaround for the Windows limitation of the maximum length of the command line being 2KB
    • Locate the two instances where the script sets the value of the CMDLINE variable
    • Add the code below before each instance, this code will output the current value of CLASSPATH to a text file

      REM –
      REM output the class path to text file and change reference to file on CMDLINE variable
      REM this is a workaround to a limit on windows command line to 2KB
      echo %CLASSPATH% > %WL_HOME%\server\bin\classpath.txt

    • Replace the class path variable reference \”%CLASSPATH%\” with@%WL_HOME%\server\bin\classpath.txt as depicted in the example below

      set CMDLINE=”%JAVA_VM% %MEM_ARGS% %JAVA_OPTIONS% -classpath @%WL_HOME%\server\bin\classpath.txt -Dweblogic.Name=%SERVER_NAME% -Dweblogic.management.username=%WLS_USER% -Dweblogic.ProductionModeEnabled=%PRODUCTION_MODE% -Djava.security.policy=\”%WL_HOME%\server\lib\weblogic.policy\” weblogic.Server”

  • Read the Microsoft Support article on specifying the startup order of Windows Services
  • Using regedit, add the one group for each of the OBIEE processes to be started at the end of the list entry at:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ServiceGroupOrder

    Example groups:

    OBI Node Manager
    OBI AdminServer
    OBI Managed Server
    OBI OPMN

    This will sequence the startup of your services based on group

  • Note down the names of the OPMN and Node Manager Services from the registry

    Registry Location:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\

    Sample Service Names:

    OracleProcessManager_instance1
    Oracle WebLogic NodeManager (d_obi_mw_wlserver_10.3)

  • For each of the two services above add a string value (right click the registry folder and follow New > String Value) named Group and provide the corresponding group value for each service (ie. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Oracle WebLogic NodeManager (d_obi_mw_wlserver_10.3)\Group=OBI Node Manager).

    This will work along with the ServiceGroupOrder configuration to ensure the startup order of your services

Implementation


AdminServer Service

  • Create a new script named %MW_HOME%\wlserver_10.3\server\bin\installAdminServer_svc.cmd and using the code below:

    SETLOCAL
    @echo off
    set MW_HOME=d:\obi_mw
    set DOMAIN_NAME=bifoundation_domain
    set USERDOMAIN_HOME=%MW_HOME%\user_projects\domains\%DOMAIN_NAME%
    set SERVER_NAME=AdminServer
    set PRODUCTION_MODE=true
    call “%MW_HOME%\wlserver_10.3\server\bin\installSvc.cmd”
    ENDLOCAL

  • Run the installAdminServer_svc.cmd script
  • Using regedit, verify that a service named Oracle_bifoundation_domain_AdminServer now exists under the following location

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\

  • Right click your service folder and follow the context menus New > String Value to add a new entry in your service folder, call your new string value Group and double click on it to add OBI AdminServer as a value. This will work in tandem with the ServiceGroupOrder configuration to ensure the startup order of your services.
  • Right click your service folder and follow the context menus New > Multi-String Value to add a new entry in your service folder, call your new string value DependOnService and double click on it to add the node manager service as a dependency, the node manager service must match the service listing you noted down as part of the pre-requisite preparation steps (ie. Oracle WebLogic NodeManager (d_obi_mw_wlserver_10.3)). Using this dependency value will cause Windows to verify that dependent services have been started before attempting to start this service.

BI Managed Server Service

  • Create a new script named %MW_HOME%\wlserver_10.3\server\bin\installbi_server1_svc.cmd and using the code below:

    SETLOCAL
    @echo off
    set MW_HOME=d:\obi_mw
    set DOMAIN_NAME=bifoundation_domain
    set USERDOMAIN_HOME=%MW_HOME%\user_projects\domains\%DOMAIN_NAME%
    set SERVER_NAME=bi_server1
    set PRODUCTION_MODE=true
    set ADMIN_URL=http://localhost:7001
    call “%MW_HOME%\wlserver_10.3\server\bin\installSvc.cmd”
    ENDLOCAL

  • Run the installbi_server1_svc.cmd script
  • Using regedit, verify that a service named Oracle_bifoundation_domain_bi_server1 now exists under the following location

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\

  • Right click your service folder and follow the context menus New > String Value to add a new entry in your service folder, call your new string value Group and double click on it to add OBI Managed Server as a value. This will work in tandem with the ServiceGroupOrder configuration to ensure the startup order of your services.
  • Right click your service folder and follow the context menus New > Multi-String Value to add a new entry in your service folder, call your new string value DependOnService and double click on it to add the node manager service and Weblogic AdminServer services as a dependencies (ie.Oracle_bifoundation_domain_AdminServer ). Using this dependency value will cause Windows to verify that dependent services have been started before attempting to start this service.
  • Right click the service folder for OPMN and follow the context menus New > Multi-String Value to add a new entry in your service folder, call your new string value DependOnService and double click on it to add the node manager service and Weblogic AdminServer  and your new BI Managed Server services as a dependencies (ie. Oracle_bifoundation_domain_bi_server1). Using this dependency value will cause Windows to verify that dependent services have been started before attempting to start this service.
  • On the Administration Tools > Services application verify that all of the following services are configured to start automatically and, optionally, configure what actions are taking on failure starting each service.

    Oracle WebLogic NodeManager
    Oracle_bifoundation_domain_AdminServer
    Oracle_bifoundation_domain_bi_server1
    Oracle Process Manager (instance 1)

Setup Validation

  • Restart your windows server and monitor the order in which services are started
  • If you see issues with OPMN starting at the same time as your WebLogic servers you might need to try setting the AdminServer, BI Managed Server and OPMN  services to start manually and using the code below to create batch command file that is executed by a scheduled task each time the computer starts:

    net start Oracle_bifoundation_domain_AdminServer
    timeout 300
    net start Oracle_bifoundation_domain_bi_server1
    timeout 300
    net start OracleProcessManager_instance1

    This script would use the timeout DOS command to institute a five minute wait between each of the OBI services being started.

One key step to configuring an enterprise deployment of Oracle Business Intelligence is to be setup your services to run in the background as Windows services and start automatically with your server.  By default the installer will create windows services for Oracle Process Manager (OPMN) and the Weblogic Node Manager, this leaves us with the need to configure services for the Weblogic AdminServer and the BI Managed Server.

Customizing your DOS prompt

Being back on a windows shop I find the DOS prompt sort of gets in my way, I have customized it so that it will display my current path and then let met type on a new line with this command:

PROMPT Ignacio’s rocking at $P$G$_

The different formatting options for the command are:

$A & (Ampersand)
$B | (pipe)
$C ( (Left parenthesis)
$D Current date
$E Escape code (ASCII code 27)
$F ) (Right parenthesis)
$G > (greater-than sign)
$H Backspace (erases previous character)
$L < (less-than sign)
$N Current drive
$P Current drive and path
$Q = (equal sign)
$S (space)
$T Current time
$V Windows XP version number
$_ Carriage return and linefeed
$$ $ (dollar sign)

To make your changes permanent go to My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables and create a new variable called PROMPT.

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How To: Download, install, configure and verify you have the latest version of Opatch

On this post we will discuss all the steps necessary to ensure you have the correct version of the OPatch patching utility for oracle software running on your system. If you find this post useful please or Share our site!

Environment Variables:

Set your ORACLE_INSTANCE path to a valid OBIEE 11g instance

Set your ORACLE_HOME path to the OBIEE 11g home (Oracle_BI1)

Validating Your Environment:

OPatch is installed by default, locate it go to the ORACLE_HOME path for your OBIEE installation:

\Oracle_BI1\OPatch

To verify your current session is correctly configured verify the installed version by running the following command:

opatch version

Minimum Required Versions:

OBIEE 11.1.1.5.0 -> OPatch version 11.1.0.8.3 or higher (do NOT use OPatch 12.x)

OBIEE 11.1.1.6.0 -> No OPatch packages available as of March 12, 2012

Downloading a Newer Version of OPatch:

To find and download the appropriate version of OPatch for yor system please go to ORacle Support and find the knoledge base article below:

Note 224346.1 – Opatch – Where Can I Find the Latest Version of Opatch?

Installing OPatch:

To install OPatch once you have downloaded the appropriate version follow the steps below:

  1. Rename your current OPatch directory (ORACLE_HOME\OPatch)
  2. Copy the zip file to your ORACLE_HOME
  3. Unzip the zip file
  4. Verify that the upgrade succeeded

    cd OPatch
    opatch version

File System Access:

OPatch will update the local Oracle Inventory so the user account running OPatch must have acces to the location of the OUI Inventory, to verify this you can run the following command:

opatch -lsinventory

Patch Directory Location (PATCH_TOP):

If you have a centralized location where you store code / releases it is a good idea to create a directory called PATCH_TOP to store patches as they are applied to each environment (DEV, QA, STAGE, PRD).

On this post we will discuss all the steps necessary to ensure you have the correct version of the OPatch patching utility for oracle software running on your system.

How to stop / start individual OBIEE 11g System Components from the OPMN

obia-tech-components-wd
Sometimes I have a configuration change to make or need to restart a specific system component in one of my servers, here is a list of stop / start commands for each of the system components:

BI Service:

opmnctl stopproc ias-component=coreapplication_obis1

opmnctl startproc ias-component=coreapplication_obis1

Javahost:

opmnctl stopproc ias-component=coreapplication_obijh1

opmnctl startproc ias-component=coreapplication_obijh1

Presentation Service:

opmnctl stopproc ias-component=coreapplication_obips1

opmnctl startproc ias-component=coreapplication_obips1

Scheduler Service:

opmnctl stopproc ias-component=coreapplication_obisch1

opmnctl startproc ias-component=coreapplication_obisch1

Cluster Service:

opmnctl startproc ias-component=coreapplication_obiccs1

opmnctl stopproc ias-component=coreapplication_obiccs1

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How to: Install the Oracle Web Tier / Oracle HTTP Server

This post will guide you through the steps to deploy Oracle Web Tier 11.1.1.2.0. This instance will later be upgraded to 11.1.1.5.0 by applying PatchSet 1 (12395155) and configured to serve as a front end for WebLogic as part of an Oracle Business Intelligence environment. If you find this post useful please or Share it!

Pre-Install Tasks

Implementation

  • Run the setup.exe file to start your installation
  • Click next on the welcome screen

    Click next on the welcome screen

  • Select the Install and Configure option and click next

    Select the Install and Configure option and click next

  • Verify that all pre-requisite tests are successfull and click next

    Verify that all pre-requisite tests are successfull and click next

  • Specify the location of your oracle middleware home and the name of your new web tier oracle home directory

    Specify the location of your oracle middleware home and the name of your new web tier oracle home directory

    Note: The WebLogic server must already be installed in the same middleware home you specify.

  • Select to configure instances of Oracle HTTP Server and Oracle Web Cache, also select to associate these components with your weblogic domain

    Select to configure instances of Oracle HTTP Server and Oracle Web Cache, also select to associate these components with your weblogic domain

  • Enter the host name and port of your weblogic domain and then enter the domain’s admnistrator credentials

    Enter the host name and port of your weblogic domain and then enter the domain's admnistrator credentials

  • Confirm the instance name, location and component names and click next

    Confirm the instance name, location

  • Enter a password for the administrator of your new web cache instance

    Enter a password for the administrator of your new web cache instance

  • Allow the installer to perform automatic port configuration using the default port numbers for services

    Allow the installer to perform automatic port configuration using the default port numbers for services

  • Provide your Oracle Support credentials, this will register this instance so that it will be available for support and, if specified, allow you to receive security updates via e-Mail

    Provide your Oracle Support credentials, this will register this instance so that it will be available for support and, if specified, allow you to receive security updates via e-Mail

  • Review theconfiguration presented in the summary screen is correct and click Install to begin the process.

    Review the configuration presented in the summary screen is correct and click Install to begin the process.

  • Review the information on the completed install progress screen, make a note of the install log location and click next.

    Review the information on the final summary screen, make a note of the install log location and click next.

  • Review the information presented in the final summary screen, make a note of component urls and click finish to finalize the initial install and configuration process

    Review the information presented in the final summary screen, make a note of component urls and click finish to finalize the initial install and configuration process

Configuring a new loopback adapter in windows


  1. Start > Control Pannel> Add  Hardware
  2. Click next on the Welcome screen
    Click next on the Welcome screen
  3. When ask if you have connected your hardware, specify yes
    When ask if you have connected your hardware, specify yes
  4. In the next dialog select Add new hardware device
    In the next dialog select Add new hardware device
  5. On the following screen select Network Adapters
    On the following screen select Network Adapters
  6. Select Microsoft > Microsoft Loopback Adapter from the list
    Select Microsoft > Microsoft Loopback Adapter from the list
  7. Select next in the following screen to install your loopback adapter
    Select next in the following screen to install your loopback adapter
  8. Click finish to complete this section of the installation process
    Click finish to complete this section of the installation process
  9. Find your newly created adapter by going to Start > Control Panel > Network Connections
    Find your newly created adapter by going to Start > Control Panel > Network Connections
  10. Right click your new connection and select Properties
  11. Select the Internet Protocol on the second section of the screen and click properties
    Select the Internet Protocol on the second section of the screen and click properties
  12. In the IP properties dialog configure a static IP address following the example belowIP Address: 10.10.10.35 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
    In the IP properties dialog configure a static IP address following the example belowIP Address: 10.10.10.35 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Once you have configured a static IP address you will have completed the configuration of your new loopback adapter.

For instructions on configuring your hosts file to correctly use your loopback adapter when installing Oracle products see this post.

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