Starting Business Connectivity "Services"

Before using Business Connectivity Services (BCS), this service must be started in central admin site. To start this service, do the following.

1.       Go to central admin site. Click “System Settings” under “Central Administration”.

2.       Click “Manage services on server” under “Servers”.

Figure 1: Manage services

3.       Locate “Business Data Connectivity Service” and start it.

Figure 2: Start BCS