When I select the Business Contacts section of BCM, I get this error:
"Business Contact Manager has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We
are sorry for the inconvenience."
I sent the error report to Microsoft which contains this data:

I am having ongoing issues since I installed BCM over Outlook 2003.  It works
sometimes and other times (like now) there is just Actions instead of
Business Actions in the top tool bar and when I open a business contact all
of my email is in every contact history and the add ...

This is very strange.  I went to look up the history of two of my business
contacts and the history items have all been replaced with emails I've
received completely unrelated to their accounts.  I've cleared the cache and
re-linked but the correct history items are not shown.  ...

I know I can move my Outlook contacts into Business Contact Manager Business
Contacts - but how can I go in the other direction.  Business Contact Manager
will not synchronize with Pocket PC.  If I can copy of Business Contacts to
Outlook Contacts I can synchronize.

When I add a new account name the next step is the "Primary Contact" When I
try to add the primary contact I am not only unable to type the name in but
when I click on the box to the right of the Primary contact area and try to
add it by typing it ino the pop-up-nothing happens. ...

business contact manager is missing from outlook 2003 error message indicates
business contact manager unable to load data-any resolution?

Is there a way to customize the drop down choices in the Type, Sales Stage or
Source of Lead drop down boxes when creatign a new opportunity?

Is there a way to syncronize business contact manager with the basic outlook
contacts file?  v-cards, and all of the automated contact generating
qualities of outlook generate a contact record.  In addition, the
distribution lists are generated in the basic contact manager.  So ...

Is it possible to access my colleagues' information by merging their BCM data
with mine ?
Is it also possible to access another user's BCM data from within my Outlook
(the same way we can access another user's e-mails, tasks, calendar, etc.) ?

need help syncing contacts with business conacts

I own the latest version of Outlook. I have stored my business contact data
in the "Contacts" database. I have also assigned categories to each contact.
My goal now is to send an email to a group of contacts. The problem I am
running into is that I see no easy way to select the ...

I need to make distribution groups for sending out emails to groups that get
emails frequently (i.e., committees).  Outlook lets you do this, however the
Business Manager doesn't make it easy.  I've noticed that you can create
distribution groups using Contacts, but not "Business ...

Hey out there.
Does anyone know what Microsoft plans to do with BCM? There really have not
been too many updates. I am trying to choose between ACT and BCM. It seems
easier to stay within the MS community.

Big Problem.  I am supposed to be able to assign a key contact (as well as
other contacts) to Accounts and Opportunities.
When I click on the box next to Key contact I get an empty pop-up list box.  
Ditto when I click on the ADD button in the next section for additional

After reviewing BCM, I've come to the realization that it doesn't work as I
had imagined it would.  I thought that BCM interacted with the contacts in
Outlook.  I had no idea I had to move them over to BCM.  This is just not
very efficient, as I'm used to my way of using Outlook ...