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Posted my original post in the wrong place.  Should have posted here.  The BCM SP2 update on 4/28 along with other updates did not go well and and the MSSMLBIZ instance of the SQL Server was rendered nonfunctional.  How I repaired my installation is described in this post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/bcm/archive/2007/02/20/sql-server-service-pack-2-release.aspx#9581777

Didn't get link provided in post above quite right.  The correct, exact link to my description of repairing a BCM SP2 install is:

http://blogs.msdn.com/bcm/archive/2007/02/20/sql-server-service-pack-2-release.aspx#ctl00___ctl00___ctl02___Comments___Comments_ctl09_NameLink

The other day SP2 wanted to run from MS automatic updates so I let it and now OL BCM will not connect to my database. I am using SQL Server "Developer Edition" not SQLEXPRESS. When I select to connect to the computer name "localhost\MSSQLSERVER,1433" I get a message that it cannot access the database server MYCOMPUTERNAME.

How to I get it to connect to the database? Why would SP2 break this???

Thanks,

Richard

Great news on the BCM SP2 ... But ...

There is still no way to add the "Company" field in any BCM Report.

Considering the amount of users requesting this feature, I believe it should be added to the next update of BCM.

Was this just a plain oversight?

I am having the exact same symptom as MaitreMind and it is very frustrating. I have been using a database located on my local MSSQLSERVER instance for years. Immediately after installing SP2, it can no longer find the database. All attempts at qualifying with instance names, ports, changing ports to 5356 on the 127.0.0.1 IP address have failed. How did I set this up the first time? Why did if fail after SP2? How do I reconfigure it so that it can see the MSSQLSERVER this time around? Is there a config file I can't seem to find? Please help. One instance of SQL Server on a laptop is enough. This seems a bit trickier than it needs to be.

-Vince

We are running 8 Windows Vista computers networked together with Outlook/BCM 2007 integrated with MOA Professional 2009.  All of the computers have the latest SP and updates for all of the microsoft programs.  

We are having a recurring problem with user defined views.  If there are more than around 100 items in a user defined view, scrolling causes the screen to go blank.  This only happens in user defined views and not in the standard views that are preconfigured.

Any advice on how to fix this problem would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Bill

I was wondering if there was any way to merge or sync outlook contacts with BCM contacts. (I already copied from contacts to BCM contacts to populate but that is only an interim solutions for me)

 I have the same problem everyone else seems to have with leveraging my contacts as well as being able to use my smart phone.  Thanks so much.

Bilbils

I am a little disappointed to not see a reply to my earlier post. However, I solved my connectivity issue on my own. The solution is to use the BCM for Outlook 2007 Database Tool and share the existing database even though it is local. Your login credentials will likely be given access by default. If not, then add them. Then, when starting Outlook, choose the option to select a new database when the initial "Can't find the database" dialog presents itself. However, *don't* use the suggested format of [MachineName]\[InstanceName],[port] when entering the Computer Name in the "Create or Select a BCM Database" dialog. Instead use the format .\[InstanceName],[port]. For some reason, BCM does not allow you to enter the same machine name if you are connecting locally. It must be a dot. Problem solved. You may be able to skip the whole sharing the database step, but I have not tested it that way, so reply back and let me know.

Is there any news regarding permissions users have to access contacts added through bcm. What I mean is if I have several users but I only want them to access there own contacts in the network shared db. I don't what individual users to see other users contacts. I just want to store them in a central db so if one of our sales people leave we have the contacts from that user.

Any updates?

I am in the proces of deploying BCM SP2 to 20+ users.  I am experiencing severe performance issues every Monday morning when users come back to the office and try to synch with the server. The details of my setup are in the link provided above.

Is anyone else experiencing these kinds of performance issues when users come back to the office after being gone for a few days?

this is the link for the details on my setup:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsdesktopsearchdevelopment/thread/bb500dc2-40d6-4680-b0b4-e4385d9e752a