BCM Sharing Conceptual Questions

[mtbcpa]

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
that
came with OL 2007)

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?


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?


Thanks!
mtbcpa

 

[Luther]

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
that
came with OL 2007)

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?

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?

Thanks!
mtbcpa

BCM sharing has always been independent of Exchange. BCM uses its own
Sql database.

Performance will vary depending on your hardware and the complexity of
your BCM database (number of contacts, average number of activities
per contact, etc).

You can put a BCM database on a server. Here's the details:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...0f-f593-4fb4-b822-dd662af1a6cb&displaylang=en

 

[mtbcpa]

BCM sharing has always been independent of Exchange. BCM uses its own
Sql database.

Performance will vary depending on your hardware and the complexity of
your BCM database (number of contacts, average number of activities
per contact, etc).

You can put a BCM database on a server. Here's the details:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b8e7aa0f-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.