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P6 on Windows 7

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Fri, 2010-02-19 05:38
Ronnel Anthony Ce...
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Hi,

Does anyone know or even tried if Primavera P6 works on a Windows 7, 64bit Operating System? Thanks.

Regards,

Ronnel Anthony Celerio
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Fri, 2010-02-19 23:41
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Ronnel Anthony Ce...
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Thank you so much... all your comments helped a lot..

Regards,

Ronnel Anthony Celerio
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Fri, 2010-02-19 13:36
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Dennis Hanks
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Ronnel;

I am currently running P6.7 under Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.

Installing the SQL server was a bit of a hassle (needed to use 2005 instead of 2008). Was fortunate to have an old Primavera support person to assist - it took 3 hours of direct computer control to accomplish. I do not think you will have the same problems, especially if you use Oracle Express, but give yourself plenty of time and make sure you do it during normal support hours. I went with SQL because of familiarity and the need for multiple databases (no prohibition from Oracle so far, regardless of what some think the license says).

I have not rigorously tested it, but it seems to be working fine. Seems necessary to run the SQL server script to enable Background Jobs - may be a 64 bit bug. Oracle database may not have the same problem/bug/annoyance.

Not sure about the requirement to install Oracle Client. That has not been my situation, though I did see the notice.

My project is small, so no real performance increase seen so far.
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Fri, 2010-02-19 12:24
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Benit Mak
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Great post Rafael,

In a quick summary:

Feb-2009- P6.2.1 was NOT tested to support the 32 or 64 bit Windows 7

Dec-2009- P6.v7 was tested to support 32 and 64 bit Windows 7 (Note: the 64 bit Windows 7 version requires the 32 bit Oracle client)


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Fri, 2010-02-19 08:12
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Rafael Davila
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Maybe this can help.

http://knowledgebase.primavera.com/attachment/PATTLNK_342009_1553-Tested...

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E16688_01/Tested_Configurations/Teste...
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