Manage the administration configuration database

Before you can log on to System Administration, you must be connected to a server The server is the computer running the Sage 200 Server software. The server provides information over the network to computers running the Sage 200 Client software. and administration database The administration database (or configuration database) contains information and settings for System Administration..

System Administration will display the default server if it can be detected.

To manage the administration database, you can:

• Set up the connection to an existing administration database, and edit and test the connection.

  See Connect to an existing administration database (SQL server).

• Create a new administration database on the server.

  See Create a new administration database.

• Restore an administration database from a bacpac file (Sage Provisioning Portal).

  See Restore an administration database (SPP).

• Reconnect an administration database, if you have imported the database in the Sage Provisioning Portal.

  See Reconnect an administration configuration database (SPP).