Does SAP Business One support unicode especially Chinese language

Hi Experts
please let me know the options
Does SAP Business One support unicode especially Chinese language
Thanks & Regards
Krish

Hi Krish,
You can check on SBO portal,
Thanks
Sachin

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Does SAP business one require solution manager for license keys ?

Does SAP business one require solution manager for license keys or you can directly get the license key from service.sap.com?

Hi,
Welcome you post on the SAP business one forum.
In general, only SAP partner can get the license key. However, partner can assign the right to customer so that they can get it from portal directly.
Thanks,
Gordon

Know more detail about the Remote Support Platform for SAP Business One ?

SAP Business One 9.1 is about to release this year and we can see in the feature enhancements that a significant update is planned in the Remote Support Platform for SAP Business One, more commonly known as RSP. Let’s have a quick look what update is planned for RSP in version 9.1:
Enhancements planned in Remote Support Platform for SAP Business One 9.1
RSP is planned to support both SAP Business One on Microsoft SQL Server as well as SAP Business One on HANA Database
RSP Processes and Reports adapted to SAP HANA Database
With this plan RSP will help in the areas of Download, Installation, Go-Live Check, Monitoring, Upgrade and Support for SAP Business One both   on SQL Server and HANA.
But like me (non-SAP B1 Consultant) many of you have the question what is RSP and how it helps in support? Here I have tried to gather all information.
What is Remote Support Platform for SAP Business One?
The remote support platform for SAP Business One is designed to protect a SAP Business One installation by providing automated and remote support in a high-volume business.
The platform monitors the entire SAP Business One environment. By significantly reducing the time between the appearance, identification, and resolution of issues, the remote support platform for SAP Business One minimizes the impact on customer databases and processes.
Some Key Features of Remote Support Platform:
Showing alerts to SAP B1 Admin about the events which require their attention, such as low disk space, database backups, etc.
Incident Reports against the issues identified which require attention of SAP Support
Company Database Backup and Restore options
Regular fixes of Company Database inconsistencies
Check, Download and Install regular updates in SAP Business One
Upload Logs and required files to SAP Support or to Partner Support on regular basis
Some details about RSP Backup Management
Schedule daily, weekly, and monthly backups
Perform differential and full database backups
Back up transaction logs
Back up files to shared folders on a network
System Status Report through RSP
From June 1st 2013, it will be mandatory to install, configure and upload the System Status Report (SSR) from Remote Support Platform (RSP) for SAP Business One in order to receive support for messages of a technical nature (upgrades, performance & crashes, etc).
Database uploads only via RSP
From June 1st 2013 SAP Business One Support will only accept database uploads to SAP via remote support platform for SAP Business One. In certain exceptional circumstances STFP may be used but this will constitute a minority of cases.
Microsoft Windows PowerShell Scripting
In the remote support platform studio, you can create tasks using Microsoft Windows PowerShell scripting. PowerShell enables you to perform remote administrative tasks on customers’ Microsoft Windows operating systems, by providing full access to Component Object Model (COM) and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).Some Network Prerequisite for RSP
To achieve the internet connection test, you must allow port 80 for the RSP external communication
Disabling antivirus firewall or add the RSP to the trusted zone of the antivirus
Set the correct proxy
Disabling Windows firewall in the TP_link Wireless Configuration Utility
Want to now More about It Click Here :   Remote Support Platform for SAP Business One

SAP Business One 9.1 is about to release this year and we can see in the feature enhancements that a significant update is planned in the Remote Support Platform for SAP Business One, more commonly known as RSP. Let’s have a quick look what update is planned for RSP in version 9.1:
Enhancements planned in Remote Support Platform for SAP Business One 9.1
RSP is planned to support both SAP Business One on Microsoft SQL Server as well as SAP Business One on HANA Database
RSP Processes and Reports adapted to SAP HANA Database
With this plan RSP will help in the areas of Download, Installation, Go-Live Check, Monitoring, Upgrade and Support for SAP Business One both   on SQL Server and HANA.
But like me (non-SAP B1 Consultant) many of you have the question what is RSP and how it helps in support? Here I have tried to gather all information.
What is Remote Support Platform for SAP Business One?
The remote support platform for SAP Business One is designed to protect a SAP Business One installation by providing automated and remote support in a high-volume business.
The platform monitors the entire SAP Business One environment. By significantly reducing the time between the appearance, identification, and resolution of issues, the remote support platform for SAP Business One minimizes the impact on customer databases and processes.
Some Key Features of Remote Support Platform:
Showing alerts to SAP B1 Admin about the events which require their attention, such as low disk space, database backups, etc.
Incident Reports against the issues identified which require attention of SAP Support
Company Database Backup and Restore options
Regular fixes of Company Database inconsistencies
Check, Download and Install regular updates in SAP Business One
Upload Logs and required files to SAP Support or to Partner Support on regular basis
Some details about RSP Backup Management
Schedule daily, weekly, and monthly backups
Perform differential and full database backups
Back up transaction logs
Back up files to shared folders on a network
System Status Report through RSP
From June 1st 2013, it will be mandatory to install, configure and upload the System Status Report (SSR) from Remote Support Platform (RSP) for SAP Business One in order to receive support for messages of a technical nature (upgrades, performance & crashes, etc).
Database uploads only via RSP
From June 1st 2013 SAP Business One Support will only accept database uploads to SAP via remote support platform for SAP Business One. In certain exceptional circumstances STFP may be used but this will constitute a minority of cases.
Microsoft Windows PowerShell Scripting
In the remote support platform studio, you can create tasks using Microsoft Windows PowerShell scripting. PowerShell enables you to perform remote administrative tasks on customers’ Microsoft Windows operating systems, by providing full access to Component Object Model (COM) and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).Some Network Prerequisite for RSP
To achieve the internet connection test, you must allow port 80 for the RSP external communication
Disabling antivirus firewall or add the RSP to the trusted zone of the antivirus
Set the correct proxy
Disabling Windows firewall in the TP_link Wireless Configuration Utility
Want to now More about It Click Here :   Remote Support Platform for SAP Business One

Information on how much SAP Business One can handle in throughput

Hi All
Is there any information on how much data SAP Business One can handle. I know in theory it only HDD space really set the limit but also thinking performance what setups do you have out there in terms of user, transactions per day, number of items, BP etc.
Example:
We have a potential customer who currently have 50.000 monthly subscriptions (0 lines invoice lines pr subscription) with an expected increase of 20.000 a year
So in 3 year they will have 110.000 * 12 * 10 = 6 million invoice lines pr. year the first year (+2.4 million new lines increase to that number)
Can SAP business One handle this amount of data in a way that have any performance at all (Server is not yet known) or in other words. When does SAP Business One become too small and we need to move to a bigger system?
Is there any task-forces in SAP we can contact for such?

Hi Rasmus,
You may check:
Discovered performance issues? Refer to our Performance Landing Page
Root Cause Analysis? What Root Cause Analysis?
Hope you can access the link given in the thread.
Thanks,
Gordon

How to make SAP Business One display language in Chinese?

I have installed Chinese Demo Company, but the language rendering is not right on my PC. It shows bunch of boxes. My PC is running windows XP and installed for North America Settings. What do I need to do to make SAP Business ONE Chinese Demo Company display in Mandarin/Simple Chinese?
Thank you.

Hi,
You need select install file for East Asian language under Regional and language option of control panel.
Thanks,
Gordon

SAP Business One Product Support Landing Pages

Here we have gather technical and informational notes to assist you to support SAP Business One in the most efficient manner.
We have created how to guides, help you build a test environment, detailed root cause analysis guides.
Dividing each support area into topics we can deliver topic specific knowledge on your issue. From here you can select which area your issue relates to as well as the scope of each topic.
Please visit the web link below:
http://service.sap.com/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000714535&_SCENARIO=01100035870000000183&_ADDINC=011000358700001192682007E&
Note: This content is only available for SAP Business One Partners.
Regards
Rui Pereira

Hi Jason,
SAP did not provide special license for support. Support for B1 client can be performed whenever one of the user is taking a leisure time or you must ask one user that using professional user to log out. Assign the license to the support user.
After the support user have the license, the user can give support. Usually the user code manager is acting as support user
JimM

Remote support platform 2.3. for SAP Business One

Hallo,
Am 29.11.2010 wurde die volle Verfügbarkeit der remote support platform 2.3. for SAP Business One (RSP) auf dem Service Market Place veröffentlicht.
Hier in Kürze die Neuerungen:
u2022 Möglichkeit des Hochladens einer Datenbank zum SAP Business One Produkt Support. Damit verbunden ist eine schnellere
Lösungsfindung für ein geschildertes (Fehl)verhalten von SAP Business One
u2022 Eingebauter automatischer Updatemechanismus für RSP u2013 kein zusätzlicher Konfigurations oder Wartungsaufwand nach
einem PL Update der RSP mehr erforderlich
u2022 Möglichkeit esines automatisierten Transfers von SAP Business One Patches direkt zum Kundenserver.
u2022 RSP unterstützt nun auch SSL und STAR TLS für das versenden von Emails, somit können u.a. Googlemail, Hotmail oder
andere bekannte Email Server zum Versenden der Emails benutzt werden
u2022 Das überarbeitete Berichtslayout ermöglicht auf einfache Art und Weise zu erkennen welche Punkte des Berichts Beachtung
verdienen. Auch werden im Vergleich zum zuletzt erstellten Bericht, geänderte Werte in Blau dargestellt
u2022 Möglichkeit mehrere SAP Systemnummern (von Kunden) und Systemtypen (Produktiv-DB, Test-DB, Entwicklungs-DB) auf nur
einer SQL Serverinstanz
u2022 Neue Programwizards für bessere Interaktion der Benutzer mit RSP
u2022 verbesserte E-mail Notifikationen
u2022 und einiges mehr ...
Wir möchten SAP Partner einladen unsere Produktseite zu besuchen um mehr über RSP zu erfahren. Für SAP Kunden ist die Seite leider nicht erreichbar, jedoch ist auch im Kundenportal eine entsprechende Informationsmöglichkeit vorgesehen.
Wie möchten Sie ebenfalls ermutigen, uns Ihr Feedback, Ihre Eindrücke, Ihre Ideen und Anregungen uns für das nächste Release der RSP mitzuteilen.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Mario Schönberg

Kevin, 你好。请问我应该如何去下载到这个软件呢。我有一张SBO2007的实施顾问的证书，登录的后，无法可以看到其他的path，但是无法下载RSP。

SAP Business One 8.82 supports replication?

I have two servers running SAP B1 PL11 in a MS SQL Server 2008 r2 standard and this two servers is running on different locations and i already set up VPN connection in this two locations so that they can reach each other. I'm planning to synchronize their Databases.
Is their any chance to do this? or what kind of MS SQL Server replication is applicable to this?
I hope anyone can help me.

Hi jbrotto,
8.82 has already entered the pre-view phase for partners & Ramp-up is scheduled for mid-October.
You will find highlights of 8.82 & version 9 in the roadmap:
[SAP Business One Product Roadmap 2011-2014|https://websmp203.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700001336422008E/B1_Roadmap_EN.pdf]
All the best,
Kerstin

Where does company details stored in SAP Business One?

Hi All
In SAP Business one under Administration module we have company details ,where we give values for company details in front end. My question in which table (backend)the details are stored?
Help me
Thanks
Janakiraman

Just a tip
if you go in View, and that you select System Information
then open any form of the application, move the mouse on an edit text, and you'll see the information (table + fields) on which the item is attached on the bottom left of the Business One screen
Sébastien

Windows 2008 Server R2 & SAP Business One

Does anyone have any experience, good or bad, with SAP Business One and Terminal Service on Windows 2008 Server R2? We are finding a number of issues with this configuration and we are looking for any feedback that is out there.
Here is the situation - our customer is running SAP Business One v2007 SP01 PL09 Hotfix4 on a Windows 2008 Server R2 machine. All users (15 max) access SBO via Terminal Service to this machine, which also holds the databases (SQL Server 2005). The machine currently has 20GB of RAM.
What we are finding is:
1) When any process related to SBO (SBO core or add-ons) consumes some portion of memory, none of that memory is ever released back to the O/S until SBO is completely closed. So over the course of a day each user ends up simply consuming more and more memory as forms are opened for transactions. While we do see this in Windows 2003 Server to some extent, at least some memory is released when a given form is closed.
2) Once the system hits a point where around 75% of RAM is consumed the users start seeing application "hangs" and are forced to manually terminate SBO (via Task Manager) and restart. There doesn't seem to be any paging or use of virtual memory (if my terms are right) in use.
3) If the system is busy and a new window/form is opened the new window immediately (within one or two seconds) presents the "Not Responding" message on the new window. Depending on the circumstances the application is simply waiting for resources and will continue opening normally.
I would appreciate feedback from anyone who has experience with Windows 2008 Server R2; and especially using it for Terminal Services. My personal feeling is that it is a platform that should be avoided but we would certainly like to hear what other folks have to say.
Regards,
Ross Unger
Third Wave Business Systems

I believe the supporting of this OS is still on Planned basis. You may check with SAP support to give them a good user case to fight with any non-compatible issues.
Thanks,
Gordon

SAP Business One - Java Connector

Hi All,
 
We have a SAP Business One Application installed on a laptop. The requirement is to be able to use the SAP Java API to update tables in the system. We are not allowed to connect directly to the database and was advised to use the API instead.
 
The downloaded API that we are using is "sapjco30P_6-10005324 32 bit.zip". I have included the dll file contained in this package in the WINDOWS/system32 folder. I am using Eclipse as IDE and already included the "sapjco3.jar" in the classpath.
 
First question: Am I using the right Java Connector for SAP Business One?
 
I got sample code on how to connect using JCO:
 
package sample; 
import java.io.File; 
import java.io.FileOutputStream; 
import java.util.Properties; 
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch; 
import com.sap.conn.jco.AbapException; 
import com.sap.conn.jco.JCoContext; 
import com.sap.conn.jco.JCoDestination; 
import com.sap.conn.jco.JCoDestinationManager; 
import com.sap.conn.jco.JCoException; 
import com.sap.conn.jco.JCoField; 
import com.sap.conn.jco.JCoFunction; 
import com.sap.conn.jco.JCoFunctionTemplate; 
import com.sap.conn.jco.JCoStructure; 
import com.sap.conn.jco.JCoTable; 
import com.sap.conn.jco.ext.DestinationDataProvider; 
public class StepByStepClient 
{ 
 static String ABAP_AS = "ABAP_AS_WITHOUT_POOL"; 
 static String ABAP_AS_POOLED = "ABAP_AS_WITH_POOL"; 
 static String ABAP_MS = "ABAP_MS_WITHOUT_POOL"; 
 static 
 { 
 Properties connectProperties = new Properties(); 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_ASHOST, "localhost"); 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_SYSNR, "06"); 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_CLIENT, "000"); 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_USER, "manager"); //sapuser 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_PASSWD, "manager"); //sap1234 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_LANG, "en"); 
 createDataFile(ABAP_AS, "jcoDestination", connectProperties); 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_POOL_CAPACITY, "3"); 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_PEAK_LIMIT, "10"); 
 createDataFile(ABAP_AS_POOLED, "jcoDestination", connectProperties); 
 connectProperties.clear(); 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_MSHOST, "localhost"); 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_R3NAME, "SID"); 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_CLIENT, "000"); 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_USER, "manager"); //sapuser 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_PASSWD, "manager"); //sap1234 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_GROUP, "GROUP"); 
 connectProperties.setProperty(DestinationDataProvider.JCO_LANG, "en"); 
 createDataFile(ABAP_MS, "jcoDestination", connectProperties); 
 } 
 static void createDataFile(String name, String suffix, Properties properties) 
 { 
 File cfg = new File(name"."suffix); 
 if(!cfg.exists()) 
 { 
 try 
 { 
 FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(cfg, false); 
 properties.store(fos, "for tests only !"); 
 fos.close(); 
 } 
 catch (Exception e) 
 { 
 throw new RuntimeException("Unable to create the destination file " + cfg.getName(), e); 
 } 
 } 
 } 
 public static void step1Connect() throws JCoException 
 { 
 JCoDestination destination = JCoDestinationManager.getDestination(ABAP_AS); 
 System.out.println("Attributes:"); 
 System.out.println(destination.getAttributes()); 
 System.out.println(); 
 destination = JCoDestinationManager.getDestination(ABAP_MS); 
 System.out.println("Attributes:"); 
 System.out.println(destination.getAttributes()); 
 System.out.println(); 
 } 
 public static void main(String[] args) throws JCoException 
 { 
 step1Connect(); 
 } 
} 
 
Each time I run the application I run into an error:
 
Attributes: 
Exception in thread "main" com.sap.conn.jco.JCoException: (102) JCO_ERROR_COMMUNICATION: Connect to SAP gateway failed 
Connection parameters: TYPE=A DEST=ABAP_AS_WITHOUT_POOL ASHOST=localhost SYSNR=06 PCS=1 
LOCATION CPIC (TCP/IP) on local host with Unicode 
ERROR connection to partner '127.0.0.1:3306' broken 
TIME Mon May 09 10:46:46 2011 
RELEASE 720 
COMPONENT NI (network interface) 
VERSION 40 
RC -6 
MODULE gwxx.c 
LINE 646 
DETAIL NiIRead: P=127.0.0.1:3306; L=0.0.0.0:50496 
SYSTEM CALL GwRead 
ERRNO 10054 
ERRNO TEXT WSAECONNRESET: Connection reset by peer 
COUNTER 2 
 at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.MiddlewareJavaRfc.generateJCoException(MiddlewareJavaRfc.java:662) 
 at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.MiddlewareJavaRfc$JavaRfcClient.connect(MiddlewareJavaRfc.java:1362) 
 at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.ClientConnection.connect(ClientConnection.java:721) 
 at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.PoolingFactory.init(PoolingFactory.java:103) 
 at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.ConnectionManager.createFactory(ConnectionManager.java:293) 
 at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.DefaultConnectionManager.createFactory(DefaultConnectionManager.java:46) 
 at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.ConnectionManager.getFactory(ConnectionManager.java:262) 
 at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.RfcDestination.initialize(RfcDestination.java:509) 
 at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.RfcDestination.getAttributes(RfcDestination.java:347) 
 at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.RfcDestination.getAttributes(RfcDestination.java:27) 
 at sample.StepByStepClient.step1Connect(StepByStepClient.java:74) 
 at sample.StepByStepClient.main(StepByStepClient.java:304) 
Caused by: RfcException: [null] 
 message: Connect to SAP gateway failed 
Connection parameters: TYPE=A DEST=ABAP_AS_WITHOUT_POOL ASHOST=localhost SYSNR=06 PCS=1 
 
Second question: What seems to be the problem with my sample application? Do I need to use a different Java Connector for SAP Business One or SAP Business One does not support Java Connector?
 
Please help.
 
Thank you all.
Edited by: kevinroy on May 9, 2011 4:51 AM

Hi, 
Thank you very much for the reply. I am now able to move forward with what I am doing. 
I used the following code in connecting but am encountering an error: 
public class ConnectSAP {
 // company interface
 public ICompany company;
 private SBOErrorMessage errMsg = null;
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 ConnectSAP company = new ConnectSAP();
 company.conn();
 //method make connection andinitialize company instance
 public int conn() {
 int rc = 0;
 try {
 company = SBOCOMUtil.newCompany();
 company.setServer("192.168.0.216"); //192.168.0.216
 company.setCompanyDB("SBODemoUS");
 company.setUserName("manager");
 company.setPassword("manager");
 company.setDbServerType(SBOCOMConstants.BoDataServerTypes_dst_MSSQL2005);
 company.setUseTrusted(new Boolean(false));
 company.setLanguage(SBOCOMConstants.BoSuppLangs_ln_English);
 company.setDbUserName("username");
 company.setDbPassword("password");
 //company.setAddonIdentifier("...");
 //company.setLicenseServer("...");
 rc = company.connect();
 if (rc == 0) {
 System.out.println("Connected!");
 } else {
 errMsg = company.getLastError();
 System.out.println(
 "I cannot connect to database server: "
 + errMsg.getErrorMessage()
 + " "
 + errMsg.getErrorCode());
 } catch (Exception e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
 return -1;
 return rc;
 public void freeConnection(){
 company.disconnect();
} 
I am getting the error "Failed to Connect to SBOCommon -111". 
Error is still the same even if I set UseTrusted to true and comment the DbUserName and DbPassword. 
Do I need to specify the license? Or login to SAP before connecting? 
Thank you.

How to run SAP BUSINESS ONE 8.8 clients on windows and use MaxDB on linux/W

Good day,
As the subject shows we have SAP BUSINESS ONE 8.8 and I want to find out how to use it in combination with MaxDB instead of MS SQL. I find a lot of MaxDB stuff on the net but no guides on how to setup SAP BUSINESS ONE 8.8 clients on windows workstations and connect them to MaxDB.
Is this possible and if so how do I go about doing it ?
Any assistance is greatly appreciated .

Hi,
I suggest you to check the supported server for B1 in this link:
http://service.sap.com/smb/sbo/platforms
You will know the sap b1 supported platform.
If you really want to use maxDB on linux/W as B1 server, you can send a development request to SAP AG.
JimM

Running SAP Business One on a 64-bit server

One of our clients wants to upgrade their server to a 64-bit server running Windows Server 2008.
What are the implications of this and do we also need to then use Microsoft SQL Server 2008?
I went to this web link: https://websmp103.sap-ag.de/smb/sbo/platforms and found some info, but the questions I still have is the following:
1. If we upgrade to SQL 2008, do we have to buy licenses or can we also just get an installation from SAP with our software (if we've gone live over 2 years ago already on SQL 2000, then upgraded to SQL 2005).
2. Can we still stay on SQL 2005 or is it better to use SQL 2008 and what is the implications?
I found the following on the link posted above:
Mar 11: SAP Business One 2007 now supports Microsoft® SQL Server 2008.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is now fully supported by SAP Business One 2007 A (as of patch 47) and SAP Business One 2007 B (as of patch 10), including SAP-developed add-ons.
Jan 21: SAP Business One 2007 now supports Microsoft® Windows Server 2008.
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is now fully supported by SAP Business One 2007 A (as of patch 46) and SAP Business One 2007 B (as of patch 09), including SAP-developed add-ons. 64-bit and WTS support are still pending and will be announced when available.
What exactly does the bold part mean?
Any tips/hints on making this decision will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Adele

Hi Adele,
"64-bit and WTS support are still pending and will be announced when available" means that Windows 2008 64bit has not been tested working with SAP Business One yet. Thus not supported (yet).
Same applies to W indows T erminal S erver 32bit and 64bit.
>
Adele le Roux wrote:
> 1. If we upgrade to SQL 2008, do we have to buy licenses or can we also just get an installation from SAP with our software (if we've gone live over 2 years ago already on SQL 2000, then upgraded to SQL 2005
I am not sure if procedure as described in note [928839|https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMSZ3PTU4ODAwMDAr)/bc/bsp/spn/smb_searchnotes/display.htm?note_langu=E&note_numm=928839] will apply. In order to get excact clarification I have asked the owner of the note to update it reagarding MSSQL 2008 licenses.
>
Adele le Roux wrote:
> 2. Can we still stay on SQL 2005 or is it better to use SQL 2008 and what is the implications?.
Yes, you can still stay on MSSQL 2005 and upgrade later to MSSQL 2008. The other way around will not work. MSSQL 2008 is currently supported only as of SAP Business One 2007 A PL47 or SAP Business One 2007 B PL10. Refer to [http://service.sap.com/smb/sbo/platforms|http://service.sap.com/smb/sbo/platforms].
Regards
Mario

Installation of SAP Business One client and required administration rights

Dear community,
I would like to kindly ask you for your feedback on the installation of SAP Business One client and its patches on end-user computers.
The pain points I have heard so far are the following:
- The installation of SAP Business One client and its patches has to be started by a user with administrator rights. As far as I know (and please correct me if I am wrong), this is also required in case of installation of any other software.
- End users usually do not have administrator rights and therefore the SAP Business One clients have to be manually upgraded by administrator. This is time consuming (and therefore costly) activity.
We are considering to design a new solution which would overcome the above limitations.
I would like to confirm with you if my understanding is correct:
Question 1:
Is it a common situation that the end-users of SAP Business One client do not have administrator rights and therefore cannot install the patches of SAP Business One client by themselves?
If yes, how do you resolve this currently?
Question 2:
Do you use Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager or Active Directory (or any other 3rd party solution) to automatically distribute software packages and updates to client PCs at your customers?
Question 3:
If the SAP Business One client installation (and its patches) is delivered as MSI package with silent installation capability, would you be able to automate the deployment of B1 client updates to client PC using the abovementioned technologies? Or can you still see some obstacles?
Thank you
Best regards
Jan Ruzarovsky
SAP Business One Product Management

Dear all,
Thank you very much for your comments, very helpful!
@Marco - SAP Business One 8.8 client currently does not support the silent installation / upgrade. However we are currently considering this requirement and we would like to deliver it as soon as possible.
We are currently considering several possible designs. One of them is as follows:
1. A new SAP Business One Updater Service will be installed on each client workstation.
It will be a windows service installed and running under a local system account.
2. The updater service will check regularly if there are any new patches of SAP Business One client or add-ons uploaded to a configured shared directory.
3. If a new patch is found in the shared directory, the updater service will SILENTLY install the new patch (add-ons, SAP Business One) on the client workstation.
The service would be able to install patches even if nobody is logged in.
Questions:
If we consider the above design, there are a few open topics:
1. During the upgrade of the SAP Business One server, the client patches (and SAP add-on patches, partner add-ons) would be placed to a SHARED directory instead of into SBO-Common (as it is implemented currently).
- Does this have any impact on your tools, processes or add-ons?
2. SAP Business One upgrade wizard will put the latest patch of SAP Business One client into a configured shared directory. The shared directory will have to be read-only for everybody in the network to avoid that the valid installation files are replaced by malware or virus infected files
- Can you configure such a shared directory?
From customer perspective, if a new patch is put into the shared directory, the updater service can behave as follows:
1. Manually initiated upgrade of the client
Example: Customer starts the old (not upgraded) SAP Business One client. The client will inform him/her that a new patch has been found and it has to be installed in order to continue working with the client. After customer clicks "Yes", the upgrader service starts the silent installation of the client and informs customer about the progress. Once the upgrade is finished, the upgraded SAP Business One client will be started automatically.
2. Automatic update:
- Update the client automatically (e.g. overnight) if customer is not working with SAP Business One
- If SAP Business One client is running, ask customer if he/she wishes to upgrade the client now or to delay the upgrade by X minutes.
Question: Which of the above two scenarios would you and your customers prefer?
If the upgrade is fully silent, automated and handled by the upgrader service, Is it acceptable for customers to trigger the installation manually and wait till the client is upgraded? Or would they prefer to have the client updated for them e.g. overnight so they can immediately start to work?
Best regards
Jan
Edited by: Jan Ruzarovsky on Sep 29, 2010 9:37 AM

Material transfer from SAP R/3 to SAP Business One is blocked

Hello experts,
Please I need your help for the following scenario:
Our client has B1iSN and SAP R/3 in the headquarter company and B1if and SAP B1 in the subsidiary. The material transfer from SAP R/3 to SAP Business One failed and the following message is diplayed:
Result message :
com.sap.b1i.xcellerator.XcelleratorException: XCE001 Nested exception: com.sap.b1i.bizprocessor.BizProcException: BPE001 Nested exception: com.sap.b1i.xcellerator.XcelleratorException: XCE001 Nested exception: com.sap.b1i.xcellerator.XcelleratorException: XCE001 Nested exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: DI Error: (-2028) No matching records found (ODBC -2028)
The Material database transfer is blocked due to message in status
failure which block all other messages.
We tried to restart the server (Business One and B1iSN) but it didnu2019t solve the issue.
Any idea please? Thank you.

Hi Nadia,
did you check the WRITE-POLICY settings of your scenario?
when reading the displayed DI Error message, it looks like B1iSN is trying to update an B1 item which does not exists.
Please open SAP B1iSN Tools -> Development Tools -> Graphical scenario Design and select your Bizpackage, BizStep and BIUMETA.
Open the WRITE-POLICY symbol and check the entries:
Insert on Exist = error or fallback2U
Update on Miss = fallback2I
The Update Policy should stay to value regular.
To activate changes of the WRITE-POLICY please deactivate, modify and reactivate your Business Process instance.
If a WRITE-POLICY change has no effect, please check your data mapping (BIU) and especially the parameter <QueryParams>, which mustn't be filled for "insert/Add" operations into B1.
Best regards
Bastian

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