How to move or backup a Web Server configuration of MicroStrategy Web

Description

To be able to apply the same Administrative Settings to multiple Web Servers where Strategy Web 9.x or above is deployed the following files need to be copied:

• AdminServers.xml
  
• This file contains the Intelligence Server names that can connect to the Strategy Web Server. This file will be updated every time a user adds a new Intelligence Server name from the WebAdmin page.
• sys_defaults_IntelligenceServerName.properties
  
• This file contains the Intelligence Server connection properties (Port, Pool size, Automatically connect, etc.)
• sys_defaults.properties
  
• This file contains information of all the other settings from the WebAdmin page: Timeouts, Login modes, security, etc.
• sys_defaults_IntelligenceServerName$Project.properties
  
• This file is only generated when there are changes in the project level properties.

These files can be found in the Strategy Application folder under WEB-INF/xml.
Please note that these files will only save the Strategy Web settings and not the Strategy Office or Strategy Mobile settings.
 

Sessioned Preferences

Strategy also have a different set of preferences known as sessioned preferences, which are used to display the web content after a session has been created with the Intelligence Server and they control settings like color themes, locale settings, default home page, etc.
The default sessioned preferences are stored in the sys_definitions.xml file located under WEB-INF/xml folder. When any of the default preferences is modified, all the preferences that fall under that group are saved into the Metadata and not a Web file.
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