Short your BI Presentation url.

You and your end users got bored of typing lengthyyyy url or hard to remember dash board url? (http://localhost/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard or http://crypticservername-04hr01/analytics ) Do you want to shorten some thing like this http://BI/ then here is solution.

Step 1: Choose a short name for bi server or rhythmic words ( HRDash, SalesBI etc) keep it ready, edit host file i.e goto C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\ folder add new entry in host file with server name and IP.

In my example, I have added new entry with BI as server name and ip as 127.0.0.1

Step 2: Now create a new file “biserver.asp” and place this file under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\

Edit biserver.asp with following asp script(with out any space between < % or % >) then save this file.

< % @ LANGUAGE="JScript" % >

< % Response.Redirect("analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard"); % >

Step 3: Open IIS (run – inetmgr),

Step 4: Go to Default Web Sites in left pane,

Step 5: Right click on it,

Step 6: Select properties,

Step 7: Go to Documents tab,

Step 8: Click on Add button,

Step 9: Place “biserver.asp” in edit box say okay

Step 10: Make sure Enable Default Document check box is enabled and biserver.asp is top among all other files if not move it to top most

Step 11: Click on apply, click okay

Step 12: Close iis.

Now try to access bi server using http:// BI/

This method works only in windows environment and within intranet.

Hope you liked it.