Connector Best Practice?

My organization currently has a Datasync Mobility system and we are looking at options to synchronize calendar information between our GroupWise system and a Sharepoint environment that we will be building. I'm just looking for some best practice information to determine if I should build an additional Datasync server to handle the GroupWise/Sharepoint communication, or if I can just add the Sharepoint connector to Mobility and expect everything to behave. My main concern aside from getting things set up would be that when updates come out, would updating Mobility break the Sharepoint connection, or when a Datasync-nonMobility update comes out would that break Mobility features? Thanks!

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It only happens when it's about info sets, the other ones that are with SAP tables go smoothly without a problem.
The most interesting is I have already one of the reports connected to SAP info sets.
I have already verified the document of steps of creation of additional database that comes with BP pack. They seem ok.
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Hi,
I just saw this article and I would like to add some infos.
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I'm using Best Practices for BI v1.31 and this one also has this report you are talking about.
I face the same issue when trying to adapt it to my ERP, but if I run it in SAP GUI, it goes smoothly without any issue.
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