one of our subsidiary companies has its own GP installation. Different sql server, different GP. On that instance of GP I have a user id. On both my instance of GP and the subsidiaries instance of GP I have the exact same user id and exact same password.
I know that there is encryption at the sql level making the dynamics dbase not very portable. I have however always had no issue in backing up and restoring company databases across servers providing the sql matches and the account format matches.
Today we tried our first back up restore from the subsidiary to the parent GP and I could not get into the subsidiary company. IT had to work with the SID. Citing the encryption that exists at the sql level.
Given that they did not touch the dynamics / master dbase, they only copied (essentially via back up restore) the subsidiary company database, does it make sense that I could not get in? this is GP2010, current SP.
thanks
ian