Has anyone tried hosting BCM via WTS?

[Susan]

I'd like to share beyond the LAN, and MSFT won't support BCM over dial
up/VPN/WAN, but I wondered if anyone has actually tried this. This could be
only a business case for promoting CRM 3.0 and not a real tech issue, esp.
if I have to upgrade to SQL Server for more than 5 user connections. The
spin says BCM is great for businesses of 25 users or less, doesn't mention 5
connection limit right there which it should as this is MISLEADING, BILL.
Susan

 

[Guy]

spin says BCM is great for businesses of 25 users or less, doesn't mention
5
connection limit right there which it should as this is MISLEADING, BILL.
Susan

This may be a bad description on their part. It doesn't limit to 5
connections. It limits it to 5 concurrent transactions. You could have as
many connections as you wish but they would be queued once you go beyond
this limit. Actually, you could accomplish this with less than 5 users
depending on what they are doing with the database at that time. As long as
you don't have a lot of users using the database all the time then it would
be fine.

As you described your situation you seem to have a bunch of remote users who
would not always be connected. I guess the thing to do would be to try it
and see how it performs. Just have the expectation that you may be required
to move it to a SQL Server if it doesn't perform well enough for you.

 

[Leonid S. Knyshov]

I'd like to share beyond the LAN, and MSFT won't support BCM over dial
up/VPN/WAN, but I wondered if anyone has actually tried this. This could
be
only a business case for promoting CRM 3.0 and not a real tech issue, esp.
if I have to upgrade to SQL Server for more than 5 user connections. The
spin says BCM is great for businesses of 25 users or less, doesn't mention
5
connection limit right there which it should as this is MISLEADING, BILL.
Susan

I can confirm that it'll work great over WTS and over SBS remote web
workplace (RWW). I see no reason why it shouldn't be a supported scenario.

SBS2003 Premium will license you for full SQL server. There is much testing
to be done for scenarios like yours.

 

[Susan]

Thanks, everyone, I'm going to move ahead with recommending, installing and
testing the remote access scenario with BCM over WTS. And I will need to
upgrade to SQL backend at some point, but sure gonna see how far I can go?
Also thanks for reminding me that users and concurrent connections are
different.
Back to the BCM mill..
S