Hi there,

If anyone can help, I would appreciate..
Excuse me for this long post : I'm giving all the configuration steps
and tests I've done to try to make this thing work ! In that way, we
will maybe not loose time testing basic things (if I didn't forget one :)
Some days ago, I managed to make it work on a dev environment and did
some successful tests with offline mode, I tried to reproduce on my prod
environment, I can't.

I tried to use the BCM DB admin tool to avoid installing outlook 2007 on
a server only for BCM 2007. The goal is to have one (actually, 2 or 3)
shared DB on my LAN, one for each business unit.
With the BCM DB admin tool, it didn't work. Now I'm trying with an OL
2007 to be sure, but it's still not working.

=> Each time I'm trying something new, I uninstall everything regarding
SQL server, BCM and so on - just in case, to be from scratch.

Here's what I've tested, there must be something missing, I don't know
what and I'm loosing my nerves with this tool :(

1) installed an OL 2007 on a W2K3 32 bits server. I ran everything on
this server with a domain administrator account, let say MYDOM\myadmin

JMIC a écrit :

I read on one of the blogs that may not be able connect to ENG db (created by
ENG Outlook version) from GER Otlook ie if Outlooks from different country
distributives. But you can connect to db even you change you regianl settings
from ENG to GER.....

Check on the server what ports the instance is using and setup proper if you
didn't do this. Normaly ports are 1433 for SQL server or 5356 for BCM'07

Whay you cant run MS SQL Mgmt Tool on the server to check OrgTable, or using
RDP.... if you can't conect from another station?

"JMIC" wrote:

Dmitri Yukhnovets a écrit :

I think something like this is happening. I'm switching my client PC
office from FR to EN to test. I'll use the same CD to be sure...
I can't believe this would be the solution.... I'm testing and keeping
you informed.

fixed now, I had to enter "the_remote_server\MSSMLBIZ" as the server name
Thanks, anyway

dbType to 1 to share, 0 to non share

"JMIC" wrote:

Dmitri Yukhnovets a écrit :

thanks

Ok, I can access my DB with the same OL 2007 "language-version"
I can't believe MS people can't do a multi-language tool !!!!!!!!
How are we supposed to do to manage people from different countries
using this tool ?! They can't all understand english (especially in word
and the other office's applications)

1) Does someone know if modifying the language key in OrgTable would be
a work-around ? or is the DB totally language-specific ?

2) I'll try to install an english BCM on a french outlook (office)....
I already did the opposite one day, I think.

I'll tell you...

You can do that, eveyrthing seems to be working fine.

Finally : just install the same BCM (same CD) everywhere, in one single
language...
At least the common Office tools (word...) will be in an appropriate
language for the user.

'hope the problem I described and solved can help someone else.

see you

http://blogs.msdn.com/bcm/archive/2007/04/25/how-to-share-a-business-contact-manager...

Q: I can connect to the shared database from client computer through SQL
command or Management Studio fine; however, I could not connect through BCM
client.

A: The Business Contact Manager Database must be of same version and locale
as the BCM installed on client computer. We do not support sharing between
different versions of BCM, e.g. sharing won’t work if having BCM 2003 on the
server and BCM 2007 on the client. Neither do we support sharing between
different BCM locales. User cannot share a German BCM DB and connect to it
from an English BCM client. Please note that BCM locale here is independent
from OS user locale settings. If the OS setting is German and BCM is English,
then the above sharing scenario will work.

On Apr 16, 10:10 am, Dmitri Yukhnovets
discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: