BCM 2007 and 2003

[Jarryd]

Hi,

I have a user (sales manager) who has a copy of Office 2007 installed on his
new laptop. He wants to use the BCM feature in the office suite to monitor
and report on sales activities administered by his staff. They all have
office 2003 installed and I have a copy of the BCM 2003 (licences, of
course) to install on their machines. Last time I checked BCM 2003 operated
as a purely standalone instance, whereas 2007 can run of a centralised
shared database. Can you use BCM 2003 to connect to a database created by
BCM 2007, or do you have to install 2007 on all clients?

TIA,

Jarryd

 

[Lon Orenstein]

Jarryd:

You'll all need to be on the same version to share the data, unless you're
willing to do exports and imports which is a PITA.

HTH,
Lon

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Lon Orenstein
pinpointtools, llc
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Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies
Author of the eBook: Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Manager
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[Jarryd]

Is that the case even if I create a DB on SQL 2005 and connect the clients
to this DB?

TIA,

Jarryd

 

[Lon Orenstein]

Yeah, I think so. It would take a lot of effort to try to make that work
and for the same cost you could update to 2007 and not worry.

Lon

___________________________________________________________
Lon Orenstein
pinpointtools, llc
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Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies
Author of the eBook: Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Manager
www.pinpointtools.com

 

[Luther]

Yeah, I think so.  It would take a lot of effort to try to make that work
and for the same cost you could update to 2007 and not worry.

Lon

___________________________________________________________
Lon Orenstein
pinpointtools, llc
(e-mail address removed)
Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies
Author of the eBook:  Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Managerwww.pinpointtools.com






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The BCM database schema changes with each version, so BCM is pretty
strict about checking that the database version matches the client
version.