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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Business Contact Manager / February 2008BCM 2007 and 2003
Hi, I have a user (sales manager) who has a copy of Office 2007 installed on his new laptop. He wants to use the BCM feature in the office suite to monitor and report on sales activities administered by his staff. They all have office 2003 installed and I have a copy of the BCM 2003 (licences, of course) to install on their machines. Last time I checked BCM 2003 operated as a purely standalone instance, whereas 2007 can run of a centralised shared database. Can you use BCM 2003 to connect to a database created by BCM 2007, or do you have to install 2007 on all clients? TIA, Jarryd Jarryd: You'll all need to be on the same version to share the data, unless you're willing to do exports and imports which is a PITA. HTH, Lon ___________________________________________________________ Lon Orenstein pinpointtools, llc Lon@pinpointtools.com Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies Author of the eBook: Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Manager www.pinpointtools.com > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Jarryd Is that the case even if I create a DB on SQL 2005 and connect the clients to this DB? TIA, Jarryd > Jarryd: > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >> >> Jarryd Yeah, I think so. It would take a lot of effort to try to make that work and for the same cost you could update to 2007 and not worry. Lon ___________________________________________________________ Lon Orenstein pinpointtools, llc Lon@pinpointtools.com Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies Author of the eBook: Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Manager www.pinpointtools.com > Is that the case even if I create a DB on SQL 2005 and connect the clients > to this DB? [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >>> >>> Jarryd > Yeah, I think so. It would take a lot of effort to try to make that work > and for the same cost you could update to 2007 and not worry. [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] > > - Show quoted text - The BCM database schema changes with each version, so BCM is pretty strict about checking that the database version matches the client version. |
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