Best Approch to Central DB of Contacts

[Sean Dotson]

I have read many of the messages in this group but still have questions.

We have 3 machines that use Outlook 2003 to connect to a POP mail server.
We recently installed BCM on one of the machines to examine it's functions.
What is the procedure to create a DB on a central server so that all three
machines can share this central DB?

It appears that BCM needs to be installed on the server? Is this correct?

What would be the process for then sharing this DB and the process to point
the 3 machines to this central DB.

Thanks in advance..

 

[Luther]

The default (supported) configuration is to have the machine with BCM
share its database. Then the other two should use that BCM database
instead of creating their own private databases.

You can also do the same thing on your server, install Office/BCM,
create a database, share it out, and then remove Office/BCM from that
machine if you never intend to use Outlook on the server. MSDE will
continue runing the shared database on the server after you uninstall
Office/BCM.

If you wnat something more; e.g. run the BCM database on an enterprise
version of SQL Server, search this newsgroup for discussions of the
issues involved. Microsoft doesn't currently support that configuration
(i.e. they don't provide any docs or help) but it does work if your
configure things right.