It is often necessary to create a Business Note for a contact when you are in a hurry. To simplify this process, you can create a button on your Outlook toolbar: 1.) Verify that your security settings will prompt you to run unsigned macros by selecting...

Below are two macros to send e-mail or letters your Business Contacts. Running these macros opens a new Marketing Campaign with all the fields filled out. Click "Launch" on the Marketing Campaign form to open the letter or e-mail in Word, then click ...

You can use BCM Marketing Campaigns to print mailing labels, form letters, and send e-mail newsletters. The easiest way to create a template is to add mail merge fields to a Word document. Below are step-by-step instructions for creating a mailing label...

If you are still wondering if Office 2007 is for you, Watch a demo of the Office 2007 Small business Edition that includes Business Contact Manager at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/HA101759281033.aspx You can also test drive BCM from...

E-mail is a great way to stay in touch with your contacts. Your contacts appreciate thank-you notes, informative newsletters, sale announcements, special offers, and project updates that keep them informed. BCM makes it easy to send these communications...

E-mail auto-linking is a feature of Business Contact Manager that automatically links incoming email message with corresponding Business Contacts or Accounts. BCM links messages if the e-mail address in message matches with any business contact or account...

SQL Server team released sevice pack 2 for all flavors of SQL Express. If you installed Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007, you are running SQL Express SP1. BCM team has done extensive testing of SP2 to ensure it doesn't cause any problem with...

Business Contact Manager's tight integration with Outlook makes it easy to create custom folder views and search folders to sort and manage all of your business data. Creating a new Outlook view is a great way to save your frequently-used filters and...

I have added information on 2003 to 2007 upgrade issues and database creation issues. http://blogs.msdn.com/bcm/pages/frequently-asked-questions-business-contact-manager-for-outlook-2007.aspx -Mukesh

Business Contact Manager product team is working on few things that will be released over next few weeks. Business Contact Manager Database Tool: Our customers have requested an easy way to deploy Business Contact Manager database on server without...

When you upgrade from XP to Vista and try to restore previously backed up BCM database, you might see permission related error. This is caused by mismatch between the user information stored in backup file and actual user account after upgrade to Vista...

Here is the list of some resources to learn more about Business Contact Manager. Business Contact Manager Demo : This demo shows how Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps you increase sales and market your business more effectively. ...

We have created a page with frequently asked questions. Please visit this page. We will update this page on regular basis. The URL is http://blogs.msdn.com/bcm/pages/frequently-asked-questions-business-contact-manager-for-outlook-2007.aspx