On Aug 3, 1:49 pm, Luther <enown...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 2, 1:36 pm,mtbcpa<mtb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Real quick conceptual questions on sharing BCM: (btw, I have a small
> > network of >10 users and we are all running OL 2007, with the BCM
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> > came with OL 2007)
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> > 1. We currently share public folders on an exchange server and it
> > works great! However, I like some of the features of BCM. Am I
> > correct that if you share the BCM folders in OL you are NOT using
> > exchange, but instead are just sharing a common database? If that is
> > true, is this slower/less reliable than exchange? Does anyone have
> > experience sharing BCM, and if so, what is your feedback? Does it
> > work well?
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> > 2. I tried to share from my machine, but it states that I cannot
> > because I am using XP home. Will I have to install the Outlook and
> > BCM programs on
> > my server in order to share it accross the network, or can I just
> > simply locate the database file on the network drive?
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> > Thanks!
> >mtbcpa
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> BCM sharing has always been independent of Exchange. BCM uses its own
> Sql database.
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> Performance will vary depending on your hardware and the complexity of
> your BCM database (number of contacts, average number of activities
> per contact, etc).
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> You can put a BCM database on a server. Here's the details:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...e7aa0f-f59...- Hide quoted text -
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Thanks so much for the help. I went through the installation of that
tool, but could not open the shared database on my remote computer.
The toold prepares instructions for the client user to connect, but I
was unable to connect. It could not find the computer the
instructions indicated (which included a reference to a SQL data as
well as the computer), and when I just tried to connect straight to
the computer, it would not connect to that either.
I think I will need to get a technician in to look at it.
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