[AccessD] Replication Manager or Briefcase

MessageAndrew,

Thanks for getting back to me. I looked at Mike's site (haven't been there
for a while- Gee I wish he had a search tool).

I also posted on the MS newsgroup and Mike responded. Here was his comment:

"Do not use the briefcase. It is less painful to hit your hand with a hammer
than to put yourself through that kind of pain.
MichKa [MS]"

I like the way he is so direct. Anyway, I've been doing a lot of reading
from newsgroup postings and I'm confused about one thing.
I'm getting the impression that I do have to install the Rep Mngr app on
each machine.
I'm thinking that I will want to periodically do indirect Sync to my hub
database but in order to do that, I will need the synchronizer on each PC.

Here is a posting that talks about it. Is this person wrong or do I
misunderstand something.
Go to the following link and select the posting with the topic: "What is the
best way to do this"

http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?NewsGroup=microsoft.pub
lic.access.replication&SLCID=US&ICP=GSS3&sd=GN&id=fh;en-us;newsgroups


John

  -----Original Message-----
  From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Haslett, Andrew
  Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 11:06 PM
  To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
  Subject: RE: [AccessD] Replication Manager or Briefcase


  Check out Michael Kaplans site:
  http://www.trigeminal.com

  He's the guru of Access Replication, and among other things, has made his
own 'replication manager' much more powerful than the one from MS.  The are
a number of excellent articles on replication on his site also.

  Additionally, you shouldn't need to install a replication manager on each
machine.

  Cheers,
  Andrew

   ----Original Message-----
  From: John Skolits [mailto:askolits at ot.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, 13 May 2003 1:34 AM
  To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
  Subject: [AccessD] Replication Manager or Briefcase


    I'm trying to decide which is the best method to handle replication.

    This will involve around 7 users.

    I have 2 office locations: 1 in Philadelphia and 1 in Cleveland. The are
connected with an Asynchronous line. Therefore the data connection will be
slow. They will eventually switch to a regular T1 line, but not for a few
months.

    I have looked at the Replication Manager which looks like a good fit but
I would have to install it on all the PC's and (I believe) have the
synchronizer running on the server where everyone would replicate to. I
would then do indirect synchronization.

    Someone said they used the Briefcase to do the synchronizations. With
that method, I would not have to install Replication Manager on all the
PC's.

    This is not mission critical information so the briefcase looks like a
better solution with much less programming overhead.

    Anyone have any insights on this?

    John



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