Remote online access to shared BCM database

[IanC]

I understand that I can share a BCM database on a SBS2003 box. How can we
access it online from outside the network?
I assume OWA doesn't work for BCM. VPN is too slow and not easy to set up in
our experience. Is there another way to access the BCM database?

 

[Lon Orenstein]

You can use Remote Desktop to logon to the server. Or, you can logon to
your desktop PC by going through SBS. That's what we do -- the physical BCM
database is on the SBS Server's hard drive and we logon remotely to a PC in
the office and work off it it. It then connects to the BCM db across the
LAN. We don't actually take over the server with Remote Desktop but you
could for short bursts -- better to let the server be the server.

I would look at the VPN idea again because BCM will work in an offline mode.
Once you get the VPN working, you logon from your remote and BCM will create
an offline copy of the database on the remote PC's hard drive. That way,
you can work offline and synch up when you initiate it (repeatedly during
the day or at night when things are calm... although, maybe your nights
aren't as calm as mine...).

HTH,
Lon

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