BCM - Sharing data in a network

[Guest]

Hello there.

I'm new to BCM and I find it fantastic. I'm used to work with a third party
product that only gives me half the features that BCM does.
My only problem (so far) is to share data with my collegue.
We run a very small company with two (2) laptops and an old PC as file/print
server. I understand that I can use the Admin tool to put a database on this
server, and that we both can work on the same database. My question is; "What
happens when we get offline?"
Is there no sync between the server version and our local versions?
Is there a solution that any of you know off (Microsoft or third party)?

Best regards,
Henrik Notev

 

[Guest]

Hi Henrik,


With BCM 2007, we added support for offline, when your client box can not
talk to the shared database. We create a local copy of your shared db, for
use when roaming. Any changes down to this "offline" database, will get
transfered back to the shared db once you reconnect. Any conflicts in the
data change will take you into our conflict resoultion dailogs.


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[Guest]

It does what you need already. When your PC connects to a remote BCM db, it
still maintains a synched local copy for offline use. If you work off line,
it synchs up with the remote db when you get back on the network. We've been
testing it and it works.

 

[jardo]

Sam,
I am trying this out our office. Did you simply make a backup to the remote
server and then redirect BCM to that file on the server? Or do you need a
fully licensed copy of Outlook 2007 running BCM on that server?

Jardo