Installing two instances of Sage50 server on the same network

Hello,

I'm looking to install two instances of the Sage 50 server on one network using two different servers.  We will continue using our production server (let's call it server 1) with its current set of clients but need to set up a secondary server (server 2) for some testing with ODBC and we'd like to keep all data separate.  A few questions:

1. Is setting up two servers like this on one network ill advised?  If so, why?

2. Can a current client connect to each server individually (server 1 and 2) or should we set up a separate workstation that will only connect to server 2?

Thanks!

  • Interesting question - there's a data location tag in the ini file - may pose a challenge, but have never tried this.  Couldn't you create a separate discrete company within the install environment on server 1 and ODBC to that data set??