Medisoft 14 SP2 and Advantage 9.0 64-bit

Technical problems with Medisoft.
Post Reply
Paul Williams
Posts: 40
Joined: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:34 am

Medisoft 14 SP2 and Advantage 9.0 64-bit

Post by Paul Williams » Tue May 12, 2009 2:30 pm

I thought it time to upgrade our Medisoft server so have built a new machine that I'm running as a test platform presently. Our existing Medisoft server is running Medisoft 14 SP2 and ADS 8.1 under Windows Server 2003 Standard X64 SP2. So, ADS is running in 32-bit mode, but beneath a 64-bit OS, and all works fine.

Just to see how things will work in the future, I installed the 64-bit ADS 9.0 trial. Trying to run Medisoft now displays the following error: \"The Advantage Database Server has been detected. This version of Medisoft requires the Advantage NT, or Netware Database Server to be running.\" I can point ARC32 to a data dictionary and ADS seems to be running fine in 64-bit mode. But Medisoft doesn't seem to agree with it.

I uninstalled ADS 9.0 64-bit, and installed ADS 9.0 32-bit in it's place. After that, Medisoft works fine. Is there a compatibility problem between Medisoft 14 SP2 and the 64-bit version of ADS 9.0? If so, will that exist in Medisoft 15? Finally, is there a reason not to install ADS version 9.1?

Thank you profusely.

User avatar
Gavin Walker
Posts: 4625
Joined: Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:11 pm
Location: Springfield, MO
Contact:

Post by Gavin Walker » Wed May 13, 2009 9:01 am

Try install located here: http://devzone.advantagedatabase.com/dz ... Platform=9

Use the serial and validation code that came with your Advantage v9. It should work.
Gavin Walker
Walker Tek Solutions, LLC
417-890-6777 x0
fax: 417-763-6386

User avatar
Gavin Walker
Posts: 4625
Joined: Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:11 pm
Location: Springfield, MO
Contact:

Post by Gavin Walker » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:05 am

Hey Paul, I finally got around to testing this. Although the serial number and validation code you get from Medisoft work with 64-bit Advantage for Windows. If you attempt to run Medisoft against that server, you will get the error you mentioned above.

Post Reply