My BCM is unworkable

[IanC]

I have recently installed BCM + Outlook 2007 on 2 (fast) client machines
connected to a SQL2005 running on our SBS2003 server. All patches etc. are up
to date.

It just doesn't work. I get crashes, hangs and appallingly slow performance
for the simplest tasks. When I'm on the phone to clients I need to be able to
call up their information straight away not in 5 mins if I'm lucky! I note
many posts complaining about the same thing, both here and in other sites.

Either there is something very wrong with my installation (but I have no way
of telling what that might be) or else Microsoft has released an application
which shouldn't be out there. Can anyone tell me which?

 

[Vidar Heen Crosby]

When BCM is up and running correctly, it works fast and stable, atleast it
does for both my company setup and several test setups I have configured.

As for your setup, there is obviously something wrong, but blaming it on
Microsoft and BCM seems somewhat hasted, even though it may be true.

Can you give some more information about what is happening when the system
crashes, what your setup is (are you running Vista as client OS? Have you
checked the workload on your SBS server to see if it is up to actually
running SQL Server 2005? Is there enough memory on the server?)

Give some more information, then perhaps you get help sorting it.

 

[Luther]

I have recently installed BCM + Outlook 2007 on 2 (fast) client machines
connected to a SQL2005 running on our SBS2003 server. All patches etc. are up
to date.

It just doesn't work. I get crashes, hangs and appallingly slow performance
for the simplest tasks. When I'm on the phone to clients I need to be able to
call up their information straight away not in 5 mins if I'm lucky! I note
many posts complaining about the same thing, both here and in other sites.

Either there is something very wrong with my installation (but I have no way
of telling what that might be) or else Microsoft has released an application
which shouldn't be out there. Can anyone tell me which?

Here are a few things that have caused similar problems in the past:

1) Anti-virus software that is scanning everything being written or
read from disk, or moving through network ports, and doing so
inefficiently.

2) Mirroring/backup software that is duplicating some files to another
drive or network-share in the background.

3) A search program is indexing the data in BCM.

None of the things above are bad in themselves, but if they slow down
BCM so much that you can't get your work done, then you should turn
them off and consider alternatives.