Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Installing OBIEE on XP Home Edition

OBIEE installation on XP Home Edition or even on some dell laptops has been a mystery.However after browsing through seven skies and taking a religious trip to the mountains bare foot ,God finally answered my request and I was able to install OBIEE on my DELL inspiron 600m which runs on a windows XP Home Edition.Follow the steps below and one will be able to install OBIEE on their machine running XP Home Edition
1)First find a machine with Windows XP Professional most of the corporate machines and laptops have it,Also have a USB handy.
2)Now browse to the windows folder of that machine and look for the System32 folder.
3)Plug the USB in the system and grab the SYSTEMINFO.EXE from the XX:\WINDOWS\System32 folder and copy this file into the USB.
4)Unplug the USB and plug into your machine that is running XP Home Edition.
5)Browse to the Windows folder find the System32 folder and copy the SYSTEMINFO.EXE from the USB in the System32 folder.
Once the file has been copied into the folder restart the computer and try to run the OBIEE installation and it should work like a charm.

Happy installation!
If you have any further questions please do email me at mfarhanalam@gmail.com