Different Client in 1 OS

nari

Hello,

Thank you for watching my inquiry.
I would like to ask you some questions about installing different client in 1 OS.

Our user is using Windows 2008 R2 and they will install SQL 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2005(side by side).
Also they would like to install different type of NAV 5.0 SP1(1: w/ upgrade 1, 2: w/ upgrade 2 ) under this OS.

My questions are follows;
1. Is this possible to install 2 client in 1 OS?(additionally, their differences are only minor upgrade)
2. If its possible, do you know how to do this?or is there any documents which explains?
3. Is there any risk/task i have to consider when installing different types of client?

I'm awaiting your feedback.

kriki

1) yes
2) It is easy to have multiple versions of the classic client on 1 machine.
Just install the latest version and copy all the older versions on it.

3) To be sure you never open a database with a newer client (and then hit a few times to confirm conversion...), make shortcuts to open your different databases.

For SQL, you can use something like this : c:\...finsql.exe NTAUTHENTICATION=1, NETTYPE=TCP, servername=yourSQLserver, database=YourDatabase, COMPANY=YourCompany, ID=C:\DB\ZUP\ZupFileForYourDatabaseAndUser.zup
This way there is a zup-file for each database. It is also possible to create a zup-file for each user by using %username% in the .zup-filename.

kriki

[Topic moved from 'NAV Three Tier' forum to 'NAV/Navision Classic Client' forum]

nari

kriki wrote:

1) yes
2) It is easy to have multiple versions of the classic client on 1 machine.
Just install the latest version and copy all the older versions on it.

3) To be sure you never open a database with a newer client (and then hit a few times to confirm conversion...), make shortcuts to open your different databases.

For SQL, you can use something like this : c:\...finsql.exe NTAUTHENTICATION=1, NETTYPE=TCP, servername=yourSQLserver, database=YourDatabase, COMPANY=YourCompany, ID=C:\DB\ZUP\ZupFileForYourDatabaseAndUser.zup
This way there is a zup-file for each database. It is also possible to create a zup-file for each user by using %username% in the .zup-filename.

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation!!!
=D>

vaprog

Two more things to consider:

• You might need to store licenses in the database or use an SQL Server Instance per license
• navision://... URLs will be registered to the one NAV client that has been properly installed. It might be possible to tweak this per windows user.