• How long does an upgrade take from BW 2021 to BW 2023?

    This weekend i upgraded our systems from BW 2021sp14 to BW 2023 sp2. But how long did it take? My system is network of 15 desktops running Win 10 and Win11, on Server 2016 ( Dell T550 with RAIDed SSD drives ) all gigabit network connections Our…
  • Export Component List

    I am trying to export the component list for parts within Business Works. There is no way to do this through the program, but was told you can do this through a query in excel. Does anyone have experience with this? Can someone provide steps to query…
  • SYSTEM Backup files - SMUSERTASKS - filie is approaching 10 MB on server

    SMUSERTASKS - if this is too technical of a question we can ignore it(delete). As a BW user for 28 years our file SMUSERTASKS has grown to nearly 10MB and takes 4 to 5 minutes to backup or restore (SYSTEM backup) . Should this file be this large and…
  • Upgrading from Sage 2015 to SageBW 2020 new server

    I've installed SageBW 2020 on a new Windows 2019 datacenter server. I am at the step where i need to restore the systems db and running into the following... should i proceed with update of Sage BW DB's?
  • Upgrade issues... anyone else experiencing?

    We did the upgrade from 2020 to 2021 yesterday and I've received the following from employees on items not functioning as before and/or general irritants: ALL areas where notes are - Notes no longer wrap around, they do a long single line, requiring…