Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Installing Business Objects on Windows Server 2003

Hit an error during BO XI R2 install at the CMS Log On step:

Unable to log on to the CMS.

The install was unable to log on to the CMS. Please ensure that your User Name and Password are correct, and try again.

I attempted to use the local Administrator login but the solution I found out there is to use a blank password!

Infoview comes up with

The XML page cannot be displayed

Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
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A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource 'http://servername/businessobjects/enterprise115/In...
<%@ Register TagPrefix="ce" Namespace="CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.WebControls" Assembly="CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.Web...


The problem appears to be that IIS did not have a default dotnet version selection before the BOXI setup. There seemed to be nothing I could do to repair the situation - I had to reinstall BOXI after setting the dotnet version as follows:
  • Open IIS Manager
  • Right-click Default Web Site and select Properties
  • Select the ASP.NET tab
  • Select an ASP.NET version in the dropdown and click OK

3 comments:

oscil8er said...

I deleted this comment because I couldn't tell if it was genuine or marketing. Sorry if this was a false positive.

Giuseppe said...

I ran this as several forums suggested this step but I still get the same error. Any other ideas?

oscil8er said...

Sorry I don't have any more on this - I generally stop investigating something when I figure out a fix.