Comments on: Reality Check. Which SQL Server Version are you Using?

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:36:18 +0000

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.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:30:58 +0000

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.

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:15:31 +0000

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.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:17:52 +0000

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.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:04:31 +0000

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.

By: David

David — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:43:49 +0000

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.

By: mike prophet

mike prophet — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:15:59 +0000

I know this is an older post but im having the same issues Chaume is having running the same platforms.

By: David

David — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:36:45 +0000

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.

By: Kevin Stahl

Kevin Stahl — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:01:28 +0000

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).

By: David

David — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:34:03 +0000

Chaume, I’ll respond in an e-mail momentarily.