Archive | July 2014
July 16, 2014  

How to explore SAP BusinessObjects BI CMS Repository

http://blog.snapspace.pt/sboprepositoryexplorer/

July 1, 2014  

How to completely remove / uninstall SAP BO BI 4.0 from the system?

  1. Go to Start > All Programs > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs and uninstall all the SAP BO patches in the reverse order.
  2. Select the base install of SAP BusinessObjects BI (SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.0), click on remove.
  3. Once it is finished, reboot the server once.
  4. Remove SAP BusinessObjects folder from <Install Directory>Program Files.
  5. Click on Start > Run > type regedit, which will open Windows registry window.
  6. Right click on My computer and take the backup entire registry by clicking on export.
  7. Clean the following location in the registry
    • -HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Business Objects
    • -HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAP Business Objects
    • -HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>SAP Business Objects
    • -HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\SAP Business Objects
  8. Go to C:\documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp. The Local Settings folder may be hidden.
  9. Click on enable the option for “Show hidden files and folder” and uncheck the option for “Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”
  10. Backup the Temp folder and delete all the files inside Temp. Don’t delete the Temp folder.
  11. Go to C:\WINDOWS.
  12. Search for “Installer” directory.
  13. Enable “Author” details.
  14. Delete all the files with “SAP Business Objects” as Author.

Recommendation:

*** TAKE BACKUP BEFORE DELETING ANY FOLDER OR REGISTRY ENTRIES***

Source: SAP Note 1691555