CRM Mobile - installations with MI 7.0

Hello Experts,
I have a clarification, we have Mobile Infrastructure 7.0 in our landscape. We would also like to use CRM Mobile.
Do we need a separate Windows Sever and Communication station ?
Thanks in advance
Points will be awarded.

Hi,
as MI (or MAM/MAU) and CRM Mobile Laptop applications like MSA or MSV are based on a totally different landscape it doesn't matter whether you are already using MI.
The comm station is used to convert RFC calls (from/to CRM) to COM/DCOM calls for connection from/to the Mobile clients.
In other words the Mobile clients only know the IP address of the comm station, where the RFC destination of the CRM system (including user/pwd) is maintained.
The MRS (Mobile Repository Server) stores the MSSQL database ARS_DB (MAR = Mobile Application Repository)
which contains the VB code and design time data of the application. Using the MAS (Dot.net Studio in 5.0) connected to MRS by ODBC you might change/enhance and generate/build the modified application.
If you don't want to enhance the standard app you don't need MRS/MAS but it is needed to apply code corrections.
Regards,
Wolfhard

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