zoohead Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 We have Sims remotely hosted by our LA and connect using a Terminal Server shorcut. We have hit a brick wall right at the beginning of installing the new version of Sims Mobile as it needs to be installed locally yet talk to the remote sims database. Has anyone managed to install sims mobile to work over a remote connection or know of another solution. I did log a call but 1st line support could not offer any helpful advice other than to email the 2004 Capita Remote Working Guidelines pdf.
mrtechsystems Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 This is interesting we are trying out Sims Mobile with 5 PDAs at the moment and the LEA are just testing this out so any more information please post and your findings
kmount Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 We've never had Sims Mobile work in the year we've had it. - The newest version arrived the other day and I'm reluctant to even try it!
FragglePete Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 I got SIMS mobile working the other week; this was the latest release (version 1.30 I believe). Seems to work ok, bit clunky as you need to log in, go-offline, log in again, sync the database and then your ready to take registers. When you Sync it again all the marks get uploaded to SIMS. Only works really for one teacher at a time, but you can set it up to download multiple teacher timetables but this you have to do each time you Sync it (pain the arse). I installed it on a seperate Server running SQL Express 2005 quite happily. You have to install IIS6 as well. Latest release does recommend installing on your SIMS servers whereas the previous versions didn't. We'll see how it goes in September. The Bromcom solution looks interesting and I got the prices the other week. We'll see how it goes for now. Pete
adamf Posted October 2, 2008 Posted October 2, 2008 I installed it on a seperate Server running SQL Express 2005 quite happily. You have to install IIS6 as well. Latest release does recommend installing on your SIMS servers whereas the previous versions didn't. Pete We are looking into SIMS Mobile also. Will it quite happily run on the same server as SIMS and SQL 2005?
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