OBIEE 11.1.1.9 Unable to Login with MSAD / LDAP (virtualize=true)

I would like to follow up on John Whitaker’s post, OBIEE 11.1.1.9.0: What You Need to Know, by adding a note about an important patch that was released on June 3, 2015.

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Using an external security provider with Oracle Business Intelligence is increasingly common. When configuring Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, or other 3rd party authentication provider it is common to leave the DefaultAuthenticator provider enabled. Even if this is not the desired approach for the production environment, it is often desirable in development and/or test environments. The foundation of this functionality is setting the “virtualize” parameter to “true” in the Identity Store options within Enterprise Manager.

Setting “virtualize=true” in Oracle BI 11.1.1.9 will prevent users from logging in. Further information is available on Oracle Support.

OBIEE 11g: Alert: Users Unable to Log in to OBIEE 11.1.1.9.0 if Using MSAD or Other Third-Party LDAP as the Identity Store and Virtualization is Set to true. (Doc ID 2016571.1)

Fortunately, a patch is already available.

Patch 20188679: AUTHENTICATION FAILS AGAINST 3RD PARTY LDAP WHEN VIRTUALIZE=TRUE SET