I spoke with someone earlier this week who is already using Version 2008 and that started me wondering what versions my readers (both of you lol) are using.
If you’re not using at least 2005, feel free to comment as to why not?
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I still use 2000 due to the cost of upgrading. I also have plenty of other things that need my attention.
My vote went for 2008 because we already have one server using it and the others will follow eventually. I believe we currently have two machines running 2005.
We are still on 2000 for money reasons.
I moved to 2005 a few months ago.
Have anyone tried using SQL Server 2005, M2M 5.5 and OS is Windows 7? I am using it right now and theres an error “Unable to create instance of class [M2MFacLocBin.clsfacility] ” everytime I open a SO, INV (forms with facility)…
Chaume, I’ll respond in an e-mail momentarily.
Just found your blog today. Great stuff! I know this is an old poll but we are unfortunatly still stuck on M2M 4.01. I’m going to attempt an upgrade on a virtual test machine today to SQL 2005. I’m interested to hear if anyone else is running 4.01 with SQL 2005 (or 2008).
Welcome Kevin. Luckily I skipped over the 4X versions as they’re considered to be buggy and unstable. Are you on support? 4X versions should support 2000 and 2005, but not 2008.
I know this is an older post but im having the same issues Chaume is having running the same platforms.
I think you’ll find that M2M 5X is not compatible with Windows 7. However, you should research Windows 7 XP Mode. I know several people who’ve had luck with that. If you’d like some assistance, feel free to contact me at David{at}made2mentor{dot}com.
My company is running M2M 5.6 SP2 (customized) with a Windows 2008 server running SQL 2008 R2. We have many clients running Windows 7 both 32 and 64 bit.
We do not run it in XP mode. However we do give admin rights to our end users and they run it with the “run as administrator” turned on. We have had some issues. Certain functions don’t work and I thing it greatly increases the amount of RBEs. I am also concerned about data corruption that may result.
Scott,
Is your server Windows 2008 or 2008 R2?
And if not R2, 32 or 64 bit?
I am looking to move a 5.60 install to a new server and would like the OS, at least, to be as up to date if possible.
Do you feel that any of your problems are due to the server OS or SQL 2008? Or mostly Windows 7?
Thanks.
We were on M2M 4.01 and SQL 2000. My entire company has been running on Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit for over a year. Never had one issue. We run in XP mode as administrator.
No longer on M2M as of August though….moved onto Oracle.
Sue,
My server is Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise 64 bit. I have not seen any issues caused by the server OS. However M2M has told me that they have performance problems with my setup in a test environment. I am not sure if that was due to my OS or SQL version. It could also have been the hardware they were running on it.
Some of the Windows 7 issues we have may also be due to our customizations. We have FastForms, VBA, Form Customizer, and M2M created customizations. Our XP machines seem to work much better then Windows 7 although they of course have occasional issues also.
Sue,
My server is also running on VMWare currently. This of course is not supported by M2M but it seems to work ok. I am in the process of unvirtualizing it to improve permormance.