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Product Documentation - SAP Business Intelligence Platform
SAP.com: https://www.sapbi.com/
Pattern Books: http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+Business+Intelligence+Platform+Pattern+Books?original_fqdn=wiki.sdn.sap.com
Official Product Tutorials – BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8292
SCN Wiki Business Intelligence Page: http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Business+Intelligence
SCN Business Intelligence Main Page: http://scn.sap.com/community/business-intelligence
SCN BI Platform Main Page: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform
BusinessObjects Administration – Setting up security model – an easy way to configure and manage: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/09/12/businessobjects-administration--setting-up-security-model-an-easy-way-to-configure-and-manage
BusinessObjects Administration – Setting up security Part II: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/09/23/businessobjects-administration--setting-up-security-model-part-ii
BusinessObjects Administration – Setting up security Part III: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/10/03/businessobjects-administration--setting-up-security-model-part-iii
Official Product Tutorials – SAP BusinessObjects BI Launch Pad 4.x: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-19231
Secure your BI Platform Part 1: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/12/16/secure-your-bi-platform-part-1
Secure your BI Platform Part 2 – Web Tier: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/12/17/secure-your-bi-platform-part-2--web-tier
Securing your BI Platform Part 3 – Servers: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/12/23/securing-your-bi-platform-part-3--servers
User Attribute Mapping in BI4 – in depth: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2012/07/05/user-attribute-mapping-in-bi4
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Auditor Configuration & Deployment End to End: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2013/01/07/sap-businessobjects-40-auditor-configuration-deployment-end-to-end
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Monitoring configuration – Part 1: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/remote-supportability/blog/2013/01/08/sap-businessobjects-40-monitoring-configuration--part1
Sizing and Deploying of SAP BI 4 and SAP Lumira: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-33183
Behind the scenes with Platform Search in Business Intelligence Platform 4.x: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/12/06/the-scenery-behind-platform-search-in-business-intelligence-platform-4x
An improvement for Administrators in BI4: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2012/02/16/an-improvement-for-administrators-in-bi4
How to delete stale BI4 User Sessions with biUserSessionKillScript: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/03/26/how-to-delete-stale-bi4-user-sessions-with-the-biusersessionkillscript
Tips and Tricks for SAP BusinessObject Intelligence Platform Publication: http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2013/05/23/tips-and-tricks-for-sap-businessobject-intelligence-platform-publication

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-20442 ?   duplicate / still valid?

Related SAP Notes/KBAs

General Administration:1689163 – Repository Scanner tool (reposcan) in BI 4.x
1267338 – Repository Scanner tool (reposcan) in XI 3.1
1480761 – How to clean up Audit database in XI 3.1
1581890 – How to clean up Audit database in BI 4.x
1586824 – How to customize and add company logos in BI LaunchPad
1899321 – Migrating the CMS system database
1757132 – Support Package / Patch installation best practices in BI 4.x
1909881 – How to upgrade from one version of BI 4.x to another
1608960 – How to deploy / redeploy WAR files in BI 4.x using wdeploy command line tool
1475602 – Procedures for identifying and resolving security vulnerabilities in SAP BI
1645009 – How to set identical preferences for all users or specific groups in BI 4.x
1461109 – How do instance limits work in Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.x?
1573029 – How to verify SMTP connectivity via command line
1679970 – How to reset the Administrator password in BI 4.x
1320151 – How to reset the Administrator password in XI 3.1
1688743 – Oracle client configurations for Crystal Reports

Tracing:2103024 – Tracing in BI 4.x
1861180 – Creating an End-to-End trace in BI 4.x
1335757 – Tracing in XI 3.1
1734958 – How to keep more than five log files per server, BI 4.x

Server Management / Health:1339944 – How to delete an unused Node that is listed in the Central Management Console
1612745 – Crystal Reports RAS won’t start in BI 4.x, Unix / Linux
1542578 – How to Recreate Server Intelligence Agent (SIA)
1694041 – BI 4.x Consulting:- How to size the Adaptive Processing Server (APS) [Video]
1950573 – Is it Necessary to Split the Adaptive Job Server in BI4.x?
1868751 – Sporadic and Random scheduling failures, due to split Adaptive Job Servers
1463190 – Central Management Server (CMS) high memory utilization or crashes / restarts in XI 3.1
2168668 – CMS hangs or crashes during Groups Update process

Platform Search:1863726 – How does BI 4.x Platform Search application indexing work?
1640934 – How to safely use Platform Search Service in BI 4.x without overloading the server
1726392 – The number of Indexed Documents is always 0
2046675 – How to retrieve information regarding BI Platform Search application in BI 4.0-4.1
1844013 – How to configure the Platform Search Index location in a clustered environment
1932005 – PlatformSearchData folder size is too large
1787321 – Indexing of search services leads to database deadlock warnings in Event Logs

User Sessions:1862925 – Session handling and tuning
1837122 – How to increase session timeout values in BI 4.x
1668750 – Sessions not being released in BI 4.x
1996692 – Automate the Cleanup of Stale BI 4.x user sessions

Monitoring:1772632 – Explanation of Server Monitoring Metrics for BI 4.x
1741961 – How to move Monitoring from Derby Database to the Audit Database in BI 4.x
1833881 – Monitoring Service causes Adaptive Processing Server to run at 100% CPU

Daylight Savings Time:1448881 – Multiple instances spawned after DST time change
1986781 – Recurring instances' runtimes are adjusted +1 hour following DST (Spring)
1568718 – How to delete all failed instances in XI3.1 programmatically
1568239 – After DST, “Object could not be scheduled within the specified time interval”
2176887 – How will Leap Seconds affect my SAP BI environment?

Additional SAP Resources:1554331 – Interactive SAP BusinessObjects 4.x eLearning Tutorials
2026090 – How to install and configure Citrix GoToAssist from the SAP Service Marketplace
1922012 – Where to download BI Platform Support Tool, generate Landscape Report
1681036 – Using the survey script in to assist support, Unix / Linux
1983169 – Patch History Analysis Tool
1570271 – How to find Sizing information for SAP Business Objects Products
1515837 – How To submit Enhancement Requests for all BI products
2171560 – How to receive notifications when SAP Notes are updated (e.g. to track a fix)
2051288 – How to update the BI product version for a System in Service Marketplace
0083020 – What is Consulting?   What is Support?
1054121 – The SAP Ecosystem in a Nutshell
1560818 – What information is required when creating a support message?
0067739 – Priorities of Support incidents