Pbm sharing BCM in a LAN

[JMIC]

Hi there,

I used the outlook wizard to share a BCM database from a OL 2003 client
and from an OL 2007 client, too.
It took in charge the network/XP firewall exceptions /file sharing and
so on...

Both are on the same subnet, same domain, I can ping in both ways
Actually, I checked all the items from this doc :
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;901164&x=10&y=13

and.... I still can't access any remote BCM DB, from OL 2003 to 2007 or
from 2007 to 2003. Same result.


I tried some tricks like modifying a registry key regarding exchange
caching mode and so on. Nothing changed.

Did I miss something ?

Thank you for your help

Jacques

 

[Luther]

Hi there,

I used the outlook wizard to share a BCM database from a OL 2003 client
and from an OL 2007 client, too.
It took in charge the network/XP firewall exceptions /file sharing and
so on...

Both are on the same subnet, same domain, I can ping in both ways
Actually, I checked all the items from this doc :http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;901164&x=10&y=13

and.... I still can't access any remote BCM DB, from OL 2003 to 2007 or
from 2007 to 2003. Same result.

I tried some tricks like modifying a registry key regarding exchange
caching mode and so on. Nothing changed.

Did I miss something ?

Thank you for your help

Jacques

I suspect the problem is the BCM version number. Every database has a
version number and if the version in the db doesn't match the version
of the BCM client, then BCM won't connect to that database. So BCM v2
won't connect to a v3 database, and vice versa.

 

[JMIC]

Luther a écrit :

I suspect the problem is the BCM version number. Every database has a
version number and if the version in the db doesn't match the version
of the BCM client, then BCM won't connect to that database. So BCM v2
won't connect to a v3 database, and vice versa.

Do you know how I check this ?
Does this mean a OL 2003 won't connect to an OL 2007 BCM ?

 

[Luther]

Luther a écrit :







Do you know how I check this ?
Does this mean a OL 2003 won't connect to an OL 2007 BCM ? - Hide quoted text -

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2003 will not connect to 2007.

You can check the version of bcm in the About window.

You can check the version of the database in a database's table called
OrgTable.

 

[JMIC]

2003 will not connect to 2007.

ouch! I suppose 2007 won't connect to 2003 ?
Did you see this information somewhere on MS's website ? I trust you,
but I couldn't find this information *before*

 

[Luther]

ouch! I suppose 2007 won't connect to 2003 ?
Did you see this information somewhere on MS's website ? I trust you,
but I couldn't find this information *before*

I don't recall when I first learned this, but it has always been the
case that BCM will only work against databases with matching versions.
In some cases BCM will migrate a database to a new version, but then
users of earlier versions of BCM won't be able to connect to that
database.

 

[JMIC]

Luther a écrit :

I don't recall when I first learned this, but it has always been the
case that BCM will only work against databases with matching versions.
In some cases BCM will migrate a database to a new version, but then
users of earlier versions of BCM won't be able to connect to that
database.

I did not test OL 2003's BCM <-> OL 2003' BCM
Same for 2007

I just tested from 2003 to 2007 and 2007 to 2003.
I'll take a look, then

Thank you, I hope this will work.
I'm lucky my BCM users are almost all using OL 2007....

 

[JMIC]

Luther a écrit :

I don't recall when I first learned this, but it has always been the
case that BCM will only work against databases with matching versions.
In some cases BCM will migrate a database to a new version, but then
users of earlier versions of BCM won't be able to connect to that
database.

You were right,

From OL2007's BCM to OPL2007's BCM, it's working fine...

Thank you !