I'm just starting to use this and have encountered several problems.  Help?
1.  When I import the contacts into BCM from a CSV spreadsheet, I map the
company field to 'company' but it also imports it into the Name field.  Is
there a way around this?  I want to have this field ...

I'm in an office with 3 other people and we are trying to setup BCM to use
the shared database of contacts. I have installed it on the workstations
fine, but when I get to the server, it installs all the way until the last
few seconds and it then rolls back without giving an ...

Were new to BCM and in the process of setting up....before we go too far we
would like to know how other people set the system up to cater for tasks &
calender.
What i mean is that we want to set opportunties/calls up for an individual

I setup outlook with B.C.M but when i signed on using my VPN server it
appeared to disappear. Any thoughts or HELP!!!
Thanks so much

I had the "Microsoft Outlook has encountered a problem and needs to close"
infinite loop.
The machine formerly had the SBA beta on it, but was uninstalled.  Every
time I would try to install Sp1 for BCM it would fail.  I uninstalled and

I have tried to use Business Contact Manager, but any time I set up a file
(through the Outlook Profile Manager) Outlook will not come up.  If I remove
the BCM database from the profile it works.  I have heard numerous people
post that they have this error with Outlook ...

I am trying to find a way to manually set the date and time of business
contact manager event (phone log, file, etc). If I male a call on June 20th
make some manual notes and then want to report  it when I am in the office on
my Business contact manageron let say July 1st, how do ...

Please help- I get an error message when I launch Outlook.  It tells me that
there was an error connecting to the database engine for BCM.  When I click
help, it tells me to call tech support.  They want to charge me tons of cash
for help.  ANyone know the fix for this?  Thanks.

The CSV file has a field called catagory and subcatagory. I want to create
these in BCM/outlook as Two catagories.  Would a direct import from access
work better??
Also- How can I automatically define for the users 'valid' catagories. After

In Outlook Contact view, there are 5 tabs, General, Details, Activity,
Certificates and All Fields, but in BCM Contact view, there are only two tabs
- General and Details. I believe that there is a Spouse field in the BCM list
but I cannot figure out how to view this field. Is ...

We run Outlook 2003 on a MS Small Business Server 2003 network and despite
all efforts, we have not been able to share a Business Contact Manager
database with other Outlook 2003 users on the network.
While BCM runs perfectly well on my XP Pro client, whenever we try to run

After installing and uninstalling 4 times, reading countless tech notes, I
finally got it to work.  In the process, I created several databases, and it
finally worked on one called MSBusinessContactManager4 which I am currently
using.

I created a new Word Template and when I use the Action New letter to
Business Contact, the template does not appear in the drop down list.
WHY?

SQL newbie so I'm not sure if this is the right group for these
questions (but it does involve BCM).  Currently I run a script every
morning (12:30 am) shutting down the (SQL) service, backing up the .mdf
file to a file server and starting up the service again.  When I

I am having a problem with Outlook 2003 and business contact manager.  When
the computer is running I get an error message that says "Business contact
manager has encountered a problem and needs to close...."  as a result, my
antivirus (Nortin Internet Security 2005) also crashes ...