Hi Ive entered the data source a table and credentials into the MA...installed Oracle 9i administrator which includes the Oracle OLEDB drive and ODBC Connectors and followed instructions on the but i keep getting the following: "Unable to locate required client software" The oracle client is installed on the same server as my synchronization service..i dont understand how the MA cant connect to the data source?? Its all installed on Server 2008 Standard 64bt SP1 any ideas appreciated... stu

Have you installed the Oracle x64 client software? Cheers, PaoloPaolo Tedesco - http://cern.ch/idm

All sorted. Just updated to 10g because im running x64 server 2008 found a FANTASTIC resource here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/ilm2/thread/19f3436b-0fae-45a8-a1b1-c7b11a33b3c9 stu