Oracle DRM Blog

Trying to install the Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management Web Publisher (what a mouth full) today, and gosh, this definitely wasn’t the most straight forward install in the DRM suite. One of the step in the process requires setting up the MS IIS anonymous user and then defining this user to be able to access the server folder ‘mdm_web’ (under c:\Inetpub). The anonymous user is usually automatically setup when MS IIS is first installed. This user is usually named ‘IUSER_machinename’ and ‘IWAM_machinename’. And IIS would assign a random password to it. Now when you want to enable access for a new user to a folder, you will need to specify the username and password of this user. And that’s the problem! How do you know the password of something you didn’t create in the first place (the anonymous account), and that the password is generated randomly? Anyway, after some digging, here’s the solution.

The following steps will allow you to retrieve the password of the anonymous user accounts: ‘IUSER_machinename’ and ‘IWAM_MachineName’.

First make a copy of adsutil.vbs located in c:\inetpub\adminscripts, name it something else, and move it to a folder

copy c:\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs c:\admin\adsutil.vbs

Next edit adsutil_iispw.vbs and go to line 2592. It currently reads:

IsSecureProperty = True

Change it so that it reads:

IsSecureProperty = False

Save adsutil.vbs and close it. Remember that any time you are editing script files, config files, etc., you are best off using Notepad so that extra characters and formatting are not saved to the file which would prevent it from running properly.

Now you can run the following to get the IUSR password:

cscript c:\admin\adsutil.vbs get w3svc/anonymoususerpass

or the following to get the IWAM password:

cscript c:\admin\adsutil.vbs get w3svc/wamuserpass

The password for the IUSR account is what you need. Upon making the appropriate change to the ‘mdm_web’ folder security, you will need to restart the MDM web publishing console. Clcik on the web browser tab to ensure the server is able to read/write to it. And now you’re set.