FM Server 7: Testing

[stevie.at]

As there's no way to run both Server 5.5 and 7 on the same machine to test the new solution I run server 7 on another pc in our office. The question is - is there any potential of conflict while running server 7 and server 5.5 as all computers share the same network? As far as I understand, there shouldn't. To be on the safe side should I stop server5.5 manually before testing on 7 (which means doing this on evenings, weekends...when no one's working in the current database...)? We had some troubles lately with our server that's why I'm pretty concerned...

[Ted S]

Stevie,

I'm running a Windows only office so keep that in mind but I did have v5.5 and v7 running at the same time but they were on two different servers. I did not have any trouble with this configuration. People didn't interfere with testing simply because nobody had the v7 client on their machine other than me.

Does that help?

[Ender]

No, there's no problem with running both on the network at the same time.

[BrentHedden]

I've never had any problems with this situation either.