How or can I setup Business Contact Manager to run on Exchange server 2003
and be able to share it with other users that are running BCM using outlook
2003. I read the product guide and it said Outlook does not use the sharing
functionality in Exchange 2003 and I wasn't sure if this means we can't share
it using Exchange or what it means.

Thanks for your help.

You can use Exchange or POP3 as the mail server for an Outlook/BCM
profile.

But BCM does not use Exchange.

BCM uses a sql server database to store its data. Several BCM users on
a LAN can share the same database.

Hi

IF you trying to use BCM on a machine that has an exchange server it will
not work.However if you have a hosted exchange account in Outlook this
option is supporetd and will work

Regards

Raul Thomas
"kxmx250" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:5FD03A2B-10FA-4C50-B9A6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> How or can I setup Business Contact Manager to run on Exchange server 2003
> and be able to share it with other users that are running BCM using
> outlook
> 2003. I read the product guide and it said Outlook does not use the
> sharing
> functionality in Exchange 2003 and I wasn't sure if this means we can't
> share
> it using Exchange or what it means.
>
> Thanks for your help.

I would highly recommend you go to
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...4-91038e3eb1e9
and either start another feature request or add your weight to an existing
request. From what I've been told even though the requests get posted in
these newsgroups, MS doesn't read them here directly - they have to be
processed through that venue for MS to give a hoot about your request. I
could be wrong but that is what I've been tol
d.
"kxmx250" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:5FD03A2B-10FA-4C50-B9A6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> How or can I setup Business Contact Manager to run on Exchange server 2003
> and be able to share it with other users that are running BCM using
> outlook
> 2003. I read the product guide and it said Outlook does not use the
> sharing
> functionality in Exchange 2003 and I wasn't sure if this means we can't
> share
> it using Exchange or what it means.
>
> Thanks for your help.

I noticed on the MS Suggestion/Enhancement site there was a posting from Sue
Mosher regarding Server 2003 Small Biz and its ability to use BCM.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=831747
We have 2003 SB but this looks like a client update - Is this update just
the ability to simply "access" BCM, rather than what we'd like and share a
server based central BCM database?

"Boe" wrote:

> I would highly recommend you go to
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...4-91038e3eb1e9
> and either start another feature request or add your weight to an existing
> request. From what I've been told even though the requests get posted in
> these newsgroups, MS doesn't read them here directly - they have to be
> processed through that venue for MS to give a hoot about your request. I
> could be wrong but that is what I've been tol
> d.
> "kxmx250" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:5FD03A2B-10FA-4C50-B9A6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > How or can I setup Business Contact Manager to run on Exchange server 2003
> > and be able to share it with other users that are running BCM using
> > outlook
> > 2003. I read the product guide and it said Outlook does not use the
> > sharing
> > functionality in Exchange 2003 and I wasn't sure if this means we can't
> > share
> > it using Exchange or what it means.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
>
>
>

It is a client update.

Microsoft does not support installing or sharing standalone BCM
databases on a server.