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We've recently upgraded to SL 2015 and I had a question come up regarding networking requirements for this new version. In talking to our SL representatives, they stated that Microsoft does not support Dynamics SL installations that have the Dynamics server on a different local network than the clients interacting with it. I can't seem to find this peculiar requirement in any documentation from Microsoft.
We have a 2 sites that have a site to site VPN between them, allowing for local internet traffic to flow between the two sites. As far as the hosts are concerned, all of the computers are on a local LAN, just one destination takes a bit more time. We'd like for client machines from one site to connect to the SL server that is sitting at the other site, but according to our representatives, this is not supported and Microsoft will not offer support if this is installed this way. We've been told to set up a terminal server at the remote site for users to login to and use.
I was wondering if anyone else has heard of this. I'm thinking it's one of those hidden requirements that no one knows about, but figured I'd post a question to the forum to see if anyone else has run into this issue.
Thank you in advance!
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The requirements for Dynamics SL 2015 can be found here (credentials may be needed): https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/northamerica/SL/learning/documentation/system-requirements/SL2015_SystemRequirements
As you already guessed, there's no real mention of a network requirement. IMHO when MS partners talk about network requirements I think what they have in mind is the Dynamics AX requirement that has a lot of catchy terms like latency, bandwith, milliseconds and all. It can be found here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11094
Having said that, the two concerns are:
Please consider some tips:
psping -n 100 -h remotemachine:1433 psping -n 100 -h localmachine:1433
As long as you can 'map a drive' to the Dynamics SL Shared folder on the server, you should be able to do that. S: is mapped to \\<DynamicsServer>\<DynamicsApplicaitonFolder>\
Microsoft will call that 'unsupported', which means if you have problems you have to figure them out.
'Unsupported' doesn't always mean won't work.
Terminal Server IS the preferred solution in that scenario and fully supported, iirc.
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