Helpful postings about BCM 2007

[Daryl Weitz]

I am trying to find some information about BCM 2007 and unfortunately I"m
not haveing any luck. I have a couple of questions..

1) How does the sync process work? Other postings say it utilises POP and
SMTP servers, so I'm assuming it works along the same lines at Calender
Share in Outook 2000?

2) Where does the data reside? Postings on the 2003 version say it uses
MDSE (SQL destop version) to handle the data. Can the 2007 version use SQL
server?

3) Is it a Master/Slave setup or a Peer to Peer setup?

Thanks,
Daryl

 

[Luther]

In the default case every BCM user gets a private database.

User1 can chose to share their database with user2, and user2 can chose
to use user1's database. User1 can add more users, until the database
gets overloaded with too many users and performance becomes
unacceptable.

This sharing model is basic client/server. Peer to peer gets confused
with domain vs workgroup LANs. BCM uses client/server in both cases.

BCM 2007 uses Sql Express 2005.

There is also a mechanism, "offline", to keep a local copy of the BCM
database on a laptop when the laptop gets disconnected from a shared
database. When the laptop is reconnected, the changes in the offline
database are synced back to the shared database.

The mail server, smtp/pop/exchange, is not used by BCM to store its
data.

 

[Daryl Weitz]

Thanks Luther, that makes more sense for the small business applications.

Do you know if you can change the configuration and hook it up to SQL
Server, where each client has it stored locally, but syncs with a central
database?

Thank,
Daryl