OBIEE 12c & Microsoft Windows installations

To the uninitiated, OBIEE 12c installations on Windows are very challenging to say the least. An #obihackers colleague who had the pleasure of working on an 11g - 12c OBIEE Windows OS upgrade, stumbled across these issues and we thought it would be a good idea to document them as well as the solutions of each of these issues.

To start off, there is a contradiction in the documentation of the definition of parameters passed to the export_service_instance script (located in the  $ORACLE_HOME/user_projects/domains/bi/bitools/bin directory) which is used to create a BAR (Business Intelligence Application Archive) file from an OBIEE instance.

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