SAP Crystal Report Server 2008 SP4

Where can I find SAP Crystal Report Server 2008 SP4 to download?

It is 32bit but runs on 64bit (eg. Windows) also as long as the required 32bit libraries are available on the machine.
Regards,
Stratos

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Please help with my crystal reports server 2008 trial setup

Firstly, if this is in the wrong section feel free to move it. I find this forum is to big to find the information i need, in fact trying to find anything i need on this website is almost impossible. So far not impressed with SAP at all! we download a trial and when we have problems nobody can support us and we have to post in the forums for answers, which i find disgracefull to be honest. So this post is my last attempt of finding the answers to my problems or we are going to forget crystal reports server for good! I was also told that if i wanted help setting this up then i would have to pay, thats not how things usually go when we download a trial of any software!
Anyway, rant over!!
Right, we have windows server 2008 and have installed crystal reports server 2008. So far all i have managed to get working is the reports themselves which run and schedule fine. The dashboard and business views are so confusing i just dont get it at all, the manuals dont help either becuase they are rubbish basically. But my first problem is trying to get windows AD authentication working! easier said than done. I have spent 4 days trying to get it working but nothing is happening. this is what i have done so far
Set up all the options in the CMC to enable AD authentication, mapped a few groups one of which i am a member of.
Then i setup the krb5.ini file like below (removed my server name and domain name)
[libdefaults]
    default_realm = DOMAIN.CO.UK
    dns_lookup_kdc = true
    dns_lookup_realm = true
    udp_preference_limit = 1
[realms]
DOMAIN.CO.UK = {
    kdc = DC.CO.UK
    default_domain = DOMAIN.CO.UK
i also have that other file bscLogin which looks like this...
com.businessobjects.security.jgss.initiate {
com.sun.security.auth.module.Krb5LoginModule required;
The server inteligence agent has been set to use the same username as i specified in the CMC which is also the service principal name and the administartion name
i have set the web config file to use SecWINAD as default, i have also set it to give the option of enterprise, win ad etc in a drop down list
i have gone round in circles for days following the instructions, and nothing is happening
Also i dont see any usernames within the groups i have mapped , am i supposed to see any? am i supposed to add them manually?? if so, whats the point in that?
So now everytime i try to log in i get this error message
Account Information Not Recognized: Active Directory Authentication failed to log you on. Please contact your system administrator to make sure you are a member of a valid mapped group and try again. If you are not a member of the default domain, enter your user name as UserName@DNS_DomainName, and then try again. (FWM 00006)
There is also another error message i get, which isnt coming up right now but it says somthing along the lines of could not authenticate at this time (FWM 00005)
i fail to see what im doing wrong. I shoudl also point out that the username i am using for everything is our own network admin password!
any ideas on things to check before we give up with this all together?

Hi Roberto,
With the changes when SAP took over BusinessObjects the support packaging also changed. It's the way it is now but we are moving to and giving as much options as we can. SAP works on the Self Serve practice. the info is available but you have to find it, which is another thing we are working on to improve for BOE/CRS.
Best place to start is in the CMS link off the start menu, You'll find the Admin Guide and Setup/Configuration Guides. You can also find all of the latest info and updates to those guides from help.sap.com then click on the SAP BusinessObjects tab along the top and then on the left click on All Products and then filter on your version.
Once the Firewalls and Domains and your CRS Server is added to the Trusted Domains and ports opened to allow CRS to talk to the DNS Server CRS will begin to load all of the users into it's User Mappings. You still have to add each user or Group of Users but they will be available. Documents does describe how to....
Once you have the Admin Guide search on Security and it explains in details how to set up and which ports need to be opened etc.
Thank you
Don

Connecting Crystal reports server 2008 to BI 7.0

Hello,
I have a BI 7.0 server on Unix machine. I am trying to install crystal reports 2008 on windows 2003 server, and further integrate it to SAP BI by installing SAP integration kit. I have done the below.
1) Installed crystal reports server 2008 on windows 2003 server.
2) I can launch the CMS by start programs --> crystal reports server 2008 --> Central Management console.
3) I enter my user id an password and can see the business object portal with all the entries in it,
4) I have also installed SAP BOBJ integration kit (XI3.0) as well. It installs successfully. The only difference in the guide and what I did was, it dint prompt me for the CMS information, but it did when I was installing crystal reports server 2008.
5) Now I am able to connect to CMS, but I donot find the SAP authentication tab, and the server details tab, as per the guide.
I am a basis admin, and experimenting this for the 1st time. I need to set this up for one of the clients. They want to do some BI reporting through crystal reports. I have installed crystal reports server as of now. The client will now try to access it through CMS , by "InfoView". But CMS isnt giving me SAP auth tab, for me to go ahead and configure the SAP related settings.
Any inputs on the same will be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
AK

Hi Ingo,
Thanks for that reply..I am stuck now when I am trying to publish a report. I will summarize, what I have done so faar, just to make it easier to reply.
1) Installed the BO edge series xi 3.1
2) Installed Crystal report 2008
3) Installed the BOBJ/SAP integration kit.
4) Did the configuration steps as per the manual downloaded from SAP site named:"XI3-1_BIP_SAP_INSTALL_EN.pdf"
I created create a report, but I am not able to publish it. I am clicking the option to directly publish it to enterprise.But its failing complaining regarding some BI roles..not sure...My BW publisher service is starting fine.
Only thing is, I have created all the athorizations etc. i can also Log in to CMC with my BW credentials..So I am assuming BOE is atleast talking with SAP. But my my main aim is publishing reports on the server, which isnt happening when I save it with the above option.
Ok..one more thing, i have not performed the steps for the SAP/BOBJ server side trust..I think this might be the reason as well..Wanted your opinion on it.
Appreciate your input as always..
Thanks,
AK

Problems with parameter button in Crystal Report Server 2008

Dear all,
I have problems with parameter button in Crystal Report Server 2008.
when I created some parameters and groups in Crystal Report 2008, they showed both parameters in 'Parameter button' and group in 'Group button' on the left, so I can choose or type without clicking 'Refresh button' But when I added it to Crystal Report Server 2008 and I click parameter button , it doesn't show any parameter. Only click refresh button to choose them. On the other hand, for 'Group Tree' is ok. When go to Default Setting-> Parameter, all parameters are in 'Unused parameter' First time I think I had problems with my installation, but when I reinstalled it again, it was like before.
Could any one help me with this?
I appreciate looking forward to your reply
Ketya

Try posting your questionin the correct forum, this is for SAP Business One, not Crystal reports Server

Crystal Report Server 2008 - Out of Memory in Event Server

Hi All,
        We run a Crystal report Server 2008 on a Windows 2003 Server Std Edition, with 4 GB of Memory and enough Harddisk space(C: More than 25 GB and D: around 155 GB). The Server is running with MS SQL Server 2005 and CRS 2008 on MySQL and Tomcat. Other than this there is a transactional application running using MS SQL Server 2005 which creates a new database everyday.
       We have Scheduled reports which were working fine for an year, since last month we were getting the "Out of Memory in the event Server" error and the CRS stops to schedule reports, only after restarting the server and SIA it allows us to schedule the jobs in time. But this happens every once in 2 days. Am not sure what is causing this problem. Currently there are no backup jobs running and no OS Scheduled jobs are running and also no error messages in the Application log other than the "Out of Memory in the Event Server".
       Could anyone help to sort out what may cause this?
Thanks
Senthil

Hi
I strongly believe that what you are seeing here is a bug. I would suggest to open a case by SAP support immediately (http://service.sap.com/support)
Regards,
Stratos

Transfer reports from Crystal Enterprise 9 to Crystal Reports server 2008

Hello,
a decision was made to stand up our new Crystal Reports Server 2008 box and only load new reports to it that were created in Crystal Reports 2008, or ones that were modified in CR 2008.
Now I have all of my users set up and some reports loaded on the new server. There has been a new decision to now move a couple hundred reports off the old server onto the new and also have the same folder structure and schedules as exists on the old CR 9 server.
Is there an export/import tool that will allow for this?

Hi,
i`m not quite sure if you can do this from CRE9 to CRS2008 with the Import Wizard. I think its only supported beginning with CE10.
Check the Import Wizard Guide from:
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi3-1_bip_importwiz_en.pdf
Regards
-Seb.

Crystal Reports Server XI upgrade to Crystal Reports Server 2008

I have downloaded the Crystal Reports Server 2008 upgrade from the portal. Questions:
The "Upgrading Your Crystal Reports Server Delpoyment from XI or XI Relase 2 to Crystal Rpeorts Server 2008" (simple install) documentation mentions that the installer should recognize my installation and prompt to upgrade. Instead, the first prompt that I get is for a license key. Is this normal, or should the application be seeing my existing install?
If I do indeed need a 2008 license key, how do I obtain one? It will not accept may CRXI Server keys, and I cannot see anyplace to download the new keys.
Any help would be appreciated.
Jeff

Hi,
I think you can request for new keys:
For a new key:
Request key codes for new orders via SAP Marketplace (SMP), will receive a download letter on new purchases providing them with their SMP login credentials. Using these credentials you can login and click in the "Keys & Requests" tab > Request a License key.
If your Key code does not work
You need create a customer message https://websmp107.sap-ag.de/message using component XX-SER-LIKEY-BOJ.
Regards,
Deepti Bajpai

Crystal Report Server 2008 - Schedule/Process/History Grayed Out on CMC

Hi - I'm using Crystal Reports Server 2008 (11.5) and am unable to schedule reports - the schedule (as well as the Process and History) tabs are greyed out in the Central Management Console and don't appear at all in Infoview. In addition I can specify the database when I setup a new report or when using the Publishing Wizard to import files I don't get the dialogue about scheduling.
Am I missing something?
Thanks

Can you please try one of the CRS 2008 keys from the folowing file?
[https://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700000213152009E]
Regards,
Stratos
PS: You can change the license keys in the CMC.

Crystal Reports Server 2008 - Jobserver fails!

Hi,
I've just installed Crystal Reports Server 2008 V1. With the server specs listed below:
ESX VMWare Server
OS: Windows Server 2003
RAM: 4GB
DISK: 20GB FREE
I've since started scheduling reports and setting up of the user profiles/access levels.
The scheduling of reports worked fine for the first 2-3 days. After that, it seems as though the job server just dies/stops scheduling. Any other instances that are run manually will be stucked with the status "Pending".
Only after rebooting the Jobserver, will the 'stuck' jobs be processed. This is getting kind of irritating and unacceptable. Anyone has any solutions to this issue that i am facing ?.
Really appreciate any help!
Also, my event log shows a couple of errors and warnings which i will add below:
Event Type:     Error
Event Source:     BusinessObjects_JobServer
Event Category:     Scheduling
Event ID:     45388
Date:          16/12/2009
Time:          2:45:31 PM
User:          N/A
Computer:     XXXCRS01
Description:
Subprocess (Job Server Child) could not be started. Reason: Couldn't get IJob interface or writing IAudit: Pipe exception. Reason: jobserverchild (procreport, 0, Timeout waiting for Child [5724] to register ([120]seconds).
Event Type:     Warning
Event Source:     BusinessObjects_CMS
Event Category:     General
Event ID:     33017
Date:          16/12/2009
Time:          2:44:58 PM
User:          N/A
Computer:     XXXCRS01
Description:
Unable to contact server XXXCRS01.WebApplicationContainerServer on machine XXXCRS01 to perform status notification. Please check the server's system log for errors.
Edited by: Tan Ivan on Dec 16, 2009 8:28 AM
Edited by: Tan Ivan on Dec 16, 2009 8:30 AM

Hardware resources were NEVER an issue. We have quad core boxes with 2 processors, no other reporting requests just sitting idle and we see this. We now installed SP3 for XI 3.1 and still occasionally seeing it. RAM
We found that if the CMS or the Job server are restarted (we tested this with CR, Webi, Deski) all use the same code to process jobs so it makes sense.
SAP told me to add the -type outproc on ALL job servers. I tried this, I haven't had pending jobs yet on XI 3.1, but doesn't mean it doesn't happen anymore. We only randomly saw this due to our activity on the boxes.
It's one main pressing point for us to move to XI 3.1 Sp3.
By adding this switch we were told it won't re-use any jobserverchild.exe's. It will only create and close new ones used for the request.
We saw our pre-spawned go way down, so it looks like it doesn't pre-spawn any after putting this switch in the command line of the job server.
I still have a case open on this issue. I am waiting for it to appear it's head.
We noticed that it wasn't just Crystal, but all jobs pended. So I suspect what's happening is that something is losing connectivity, yet when I looked at the DB - it was saying active and running just like what we were seeing.
If we restart the CMS OR the job servers, either way they worked after that. I didn't have to do both so that seems like something is losing connectivity to the CMS.
One might say the one point of failure might be the CMS...since all other job servers are having issues. However, all on demand jobs were running fine, even against samples.
So it's a weird issue. I traced as well and no one at SAP could see anything. As soon as I restarted the problem went away so hard to trace unless I let it trace for days.
Edited by: Mike Kostuch on Oct 26, 2010 9:02 PM

Crystal Reports Server 2008 Infoview SSO

I finally have Crystal Reports Server 2008 configured and working for AD authentication with kerberos. Users can now log into Infoview fine. Now, I need to take the next step and advance the ball to get it working for SSO. We had this working on our Crystal Reports Server XI environment, but it sure has changed for 2008. Can anybody provide information and/or documentation on next steps to move from AD Authentication to AD SSO Authentication? What are best practices? What is most efficient?
Thanks,
Jeff

If you are configured for kerberos then you already have the CMS/SIA running under an AD service account correct?
If so [this doc |https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/002b818d-3db2-2b10-9895-c7b5fd4cbc71]will get vintela SSO working.
Regards,
Tim

Is Voyager included with Crystal Reports Server 2008 V1?

Hi all,
Is Voyager included with Crystal Reports Server 2008 V1?
Regards,
Janice

Hi
the CRS licensing model does not support Voyager. You may want to consider installing BO Edge or BO Enterprise for this. I would recommend to contact your local SAP sales office to get more information on this.
Regards,
Stratos

I installed Crystal Reports server 2008, i'm geting server not started erro

Hi,
I'm getting error with server not started or not available error (FWM 01003). If i check in CCM, i don't see any entry for CMS server entry. How to start CMS server??? Please advise me. i installed trail version of crystal reports server 2008.
thanks in advance!!!
Ben.

I am a consultant for Business Object products and experienced the same exact problem. We were installing Business Objects Edge, which is similar to Crystal Reports Server 2008, with MS SQL Server 2000 SP4 for the CMS System Database on a server that was named <Numbers>-<Letters>.
We discovered that some scripts that the installation and CMS run fail when the Server Name of the Business Objects Edge Server start with a number. When the CMS System Database is setup, a table called CMS_IdNumbers6 is created. It should have three columns, NameId, IdName and third column that is named after the server where you are installing Crystal Reports Server 2008, Business Objects Edge or Business Objects Enterprise. This column is called <ServerName>_iad_intensive_int_6400.
This column fails to get created when your server name starts with a number and subsequent scripts that insert records into this column fail. Renaming the server where we were installing Business Objects Edge to <Letters><Numbers> (no dashes either to be safe) solved the problem. We were successfully able to install Business Objects Edge. Please note: This is the server where you are installing Crystal Reports Server 2008 that needs to be renamed and NOT the MS SQL Server--just making a note because we had to go back and forth with our server team a couple of times on this point.

Crystal Report Server 2008 Import Issues - Missing report schedules/history

Hello all,
I have recently on a test machine installed Crystal Report Server 2008 V0. I then created several test reports and put them on the server and created schedules and a history for each one.
Once this was done I exported the information into a BIAR file. Uninstalled CR Server 2008 V0 and installed CR Server 2008 V1 SP3.
I then imported this BIAR file. After the import my reports are there, but all schedules and history are lost? Is there a way around this? How can I ensure all schedules are brought over in the import?
Please note I followed this workflow: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/5048d962-8fa6-2c10-e2ae-d32b3562cb9c
Comments on it seem to indicate this is a common issue.
Thanks!
Edited by: Rick J on Jan 5, 2012 9:59 PM

Good day Philippe,
You have been able to solve my issue, thank you! In following the instructions I didn't notice the "Import all instances" tick box, I simply assumed hitting select all would work and glazed right over it. So this was certainly user error on my part.
Thank you so much for the information!
- Rick

Crystal Report Server 2008 on 64-bit

Hi,
We tried to install Crystal Report Server on a 64-bit machine and it refused to work. the installation did not report any errors. Is Crystal Report Server 2008 supported on a 64-bit machine? We tried to install the same on a 32-bit machine and it worked well.
Please help.

Yes, this is supported:
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/articles?rid=/webcontent/uuid/8002bf72-af34-2b10-9dbf-ef49ec11b346 [original link is broken]
If it is not working, I suggest purchasing a single support case, if support deems the issue to be a defect you will be refunded your case.

Crystal Report Server 2008 vs Crystal Report Enterprise

Dear all,
We're planning to publish crystal reports for end users generate themselves. We've installed the crystal report server 2008 in a testing server however I am confused "Crystal report server 2008" vs. "crystal report enterprise". When I look into the administrator guide, it keeps telling me how and what crystal report enterprise can do rather than crystal report server.
Are they the same product but different terminology?
Your help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Rachel.

Hi Rachel,
No, these 2 products are differents: Crystal enterprise is older as Crystal Server 2008, but the 2 applications have the same purposes.
You can find here all the products guides about the Business Objects (and SAP) products:
https://websmp109.sap-ag.de/bosap-support-guide
In a sense, I understand that you are getting confused, as the documentation about Crystal enterprise is a great deal bigger as for Crystal Server 2008... For instance, I didn't find an "admin guide" for Crystal Server 2008, but you can find it for Crystal Enterprise!
I suggest you to download the Business enterprise XI 3.0 admin guide, as many of the "server features" in Crystal Server 2008 are based on this platform (portal integration, send reports via emails...)
I doesnt't find an ideal solution, and I fear you have to use a mix of 2 books in order to manage your application: the Crystal Enterprise admin guide and the Business enterprise XI 3.0 admin guide...
Sorry,
Wish you good luck !

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