2932980 - WebI reports fail due to applet initialization in sharepoint with https/ssl url

After successful installation of Integration Option for Microsoft Sharepoint (IOMS or Sharepoint Integration) on BI 4.2, 

• WebI reports can be viewed successfully when using HTTP sharepoint url. 
• WebIntelligence (WebI) reports cannot be viewed with SSL / HTTPS url due to applet initialization error as shown below.
  
  

•  Upon configuring SSL / HTTPS and trying to view a WebI document, the WebI applet viewer fails with below applet initialization error (details) :

• com.businessobjects.sdk.core.server.CommunicationException$InvalidServerResponseException: (Error: RWI 00200)
  at com.businessobjects.sdk.core.exception.ExceptionBuilder.make(ExceptionBuilder.java:152)
  at com.businessobjects.sdk.core.exception.ExceptionBuilder.make(ExceptionBuilder.java:109)
  at com.businessobjects.rebean.wi.impl.engine.ReportEngineContext.initUserServer(ReportEngineContext.java:540)
  ....
  Caused by: com.businessobjects.sdk.core.server.CommunicationException$UnexpectedServerException: Failed to access the WSDL at: https://sharepoint:2550/ServerGateway.svc?wsdl. 
  ....
  Caused by: javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: Failed to access the WSDL at: https://sharepoint:2550/ServerGateway.svc?wsdl
  ...

  Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: Invalid WSDL https://sharepoint:2550/ServerGateway.svc?wsdl, expected {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/}definitions found HTML at (lineLine number = 1
  Column number = 17
  System Id = https://sharepoint:2550/ServerGateway.svc?wsdl
  Public Id = null
  Location Uri= https://sharepoint:2550/ServerGateway.svc?wsdl
  CharacterOffset = 20
  )
  ... 36 more

• where sharepoint is the Sharpoint's IIS server and the 2550 is the WebI gateway port.

• SAP BI Platform 4.2 SP05 & above
• SAP Integration Option for Microsoft Sharepoint (IOMS) for BI 4.2 SP05 & above
• MS sharepoint farm 2016 envionment UAT

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