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Scooter - 28 Oct 2005 08:43 GMT

How do you setup BCM to show up in Outlook Web Access? I am sharing the BCM
database on two Xp Pro computers. We are running SBS 2003. When we access
Outlook using Outlook Web Access, there are no BCM folders displayed.

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Luther - 28 Oct 2005 17:20 GMT

I expect that OWA is working with an HTTP service that communicates
with Exchange's MAPI Service Provider. Short of writing a similar
service that uses BCM's MAPI SP, I don't see how you can get the same
functionality.

A slightly less costly approach to getting BCM info via browser might
be to write a Sharepoint component to read data direct from BCM sql db
and provide the BCM contact data to the Sharepoint web objects for
display in HTML.

I'm not aware of anyone selling either to those two, or anything
similar.

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Scooter - 30 Oct 2005 00:56 GMT

Thanks for the info. I am really disappointed in the BCM as a whole. The
only way that it is usefull is when you're sitting at your desktop. It is
not functional for the mobile user at all. The only practical way, is to use
Remote Destop service running on the SBS.
Thanks for the input, I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

Best regards

> I expect that OWA is working with an HTTP service that communicates
> with Exchange's MAPI Service Provider. Short of writing a similar
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> I'm not aware of anyone selling either to those two, or anything
> similar.

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boe - 09 Nov 2005 20:18 GMT

I concur - OWA - would be the best reason to get off Goldmine, Act,
Saleslogix etc - but only if it was free with exchange - it would be hard to
justify the conversion if it wasn't already part of the package.

Here are some of the things I would like corrected in BCM -
OWA - a must!!!!
Sync OTA with WM5 - I would think they could make this part of the next
ActiveSync 4.1 with MSFT.
Make it sync any fields it can with your regular contacts so all your usual
contact functions work as expected and you wouldn't have to manually copy
and paste and duplicate efforts.
Make the database part of Exchange so there is no effort in the database
access for users.

> Thanks for the info. I am really disappointed in the BCM as a whole. The
> only way that it is usefull is when you're sitting at your desktop. It is
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>> I'm not aware of anyone selling either to those two, or anything
>> similar.

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