The process of refreshing GUID came into place when we migrate the solution to production or else done some changes in server level but you could not find impact of the changes to you done. This is were refreshing GUID in OBIEE 11g and OBIEE 12c taken place. There are 2 files which you need to change for doing GUID refresh in OBIEE 11g and OBIEE 12c (NQSConfig.INI and instanceconfig.xml) Note 1: Please take one backup before you doing anything with this files so that if something goes wrong you can replace with it. Note 2: Stop the weblogic server from EM GUID Refresh in OBIEE 11g & OBIEE 12C ==================== instanceconfig.xml ================================= 1. Open the instanceconfig.xml file for editing. This file is located at, <ORACLE_INSTANCE>/config/OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent/coreapplication_obips1/. 2. Locate the Catalog XML element which should contain only the UpgradeAndExit subelement. ...