How many users can work together?

[Guest]

We have more than 1000 users.
We dont need more functionality CRM, then BCM. Can 1000 users work with one
contact server?

 

[Guest]

Hi
There is a limitation of 5 user per databse at the same time. So you can
share you database with 4 other users at the same time.

 

[Luther]

The five user limitation is due to MSDE only handling five concurrent
connections, and a single user may have more than one connection
depending on what they are doing.
The load on the machine hosting the database may also limit the number
of users who can work comfortably--e.g. watching a DVD, or some other
CPU intensive activity, on the host will also slow MSDE and BCM
clients' response times.

Theoretically, if your BCM server machine had a full version of SQL
Server and sufficient CPUs you could potentially have an unlimited
number of BCM clients.
That said, I expect that there is an absolute number of BCM clients
with which the database locking mechanisms used by the BCM code would
begin to throttle the number of operations possible on the database.
Since BCM is not intended to support a large number of users, it was
not designed for performance with a large number of clients.

It would be interesting to get some numbers on the absolute number of
clients possible when MSDE and hardware are not the limiting factor.

 

[Guest]

I have full version of SQL Server. How can i use it for BCM?

 

[Luther]

Install BCM w/MSDE on your server machine.
Create a BCM database by running BCM 1st use in Outlook.

From BCM share the database.

Use the SQL Server install/utililities to upgrade the MSDE instance to
SQL Server.

If you need more details, read the other posts about SQL Server in this
newsgroup.