Configuring OBIEE to work in Single Sign-On (SSO) Environment on IIS

In this entry I will explain how to set up Single Sign-On for OBIEE in IIS environment. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, I'll start with just a quick overview to explain what IIS and OC4J are: OBI is by default deployed on OC4J (Oracle Containers for Java) web application server. What does it actually mean? It simply means that the core OBI application will run on OC4J platform. This application by default is called “analytics” and the default port for OC4J is 9704 (as in http://hostname:9704/analytics). Apart from the default installation we have other deployment options. One of the most popular being the IIS deployment – using Microsoft’s Internet Information Services instead of OC4J. Again we will have application called analytics, but the default IIS port will be 80 (as in http://hostname:80/analytics or simply http://hostname/analytics as 80 is the default HTTP port).