So, long story short, Management has been trying to find alternatives to investing in Exchange server. Currently we use a Linux email server and employees pop3 their mail. Well, they wanted group calendaring. So we found this product called Officecalendar which syncs various employees calendars.
It is a piece of shit. But that's not the biggest problem. Then they wanted to ditch ACT for a different shared contact solution. So we try Business Contact Manager. Central SQL database, seamless integration into Outlook, seems like a great idea. All of this headache, just to avoid Exchange, which would do all of this! In the meantime, WTF is with BCM and WTF is it doing that is causing the MSDE instance on the server to be going balls-to-the wall seemingly at random, which causes every Outlook client to freeze momentarily, or just plain crash? I've connected to it with SQL Server's Enterprise Manager to check its logs out, and it is constantly logging that junk about too many simultaneous things happening (since it is MSDE after all). I tried setting it to use 2 gigs of RAM (db is 650mb) to hopefully keep everything cached, to no avail. I'd love to put the full SQL server on there but this is a developers version and technically shouldn't be used in production. We plan on going with Exchange as soon as Small Business Server 2008 comes out, but this is painful, and I wonder if any of you have dealt with this? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
