Attaching Dbase Files To the BCM sql Server

[jaygreg]

I suffered a virus infection on my main computer a few months back and have
cautiously been rebuilding the personal application software ever since.
About 4 or 5 months prior to the incident, I began toying with BCM in
Outlook 2003. Though retired and not in need to collaborate any longer, I
found the ability to make notes on contact records and a few other features
interesting and useful.



I was also under the false assumption that the BCM file was part of my .pst
file. which I was able to harvest from the hard drive after the virus
attack. I learned here that that's not the case. I checked the image file of
the old hard drive and found the following:



MSBusinessContactManager.Idf 10,240KB 3/30/06

MSBusinessContactManager.mdf 25,600KB 3/30/06

MSBusinessContactManager.Idf 10,240KB 6/25/06

MSBusinessContactManager.mdf 25,600KB 6/25/06



It looks like I started toying on 3/30/06 but since the infection occurred
in June, I assume the second set of files dates 6/25/06 were either created
during the virus attack when there was a loss of control, by me in an
attempt to savage files before the disc was flattened and the rebuild
process begun, or by the guru I paid to create the image file. (I'm reading
these files from a disc he gave me. They've been run through his virus
software and found to be clean and my NOD 32 software finds no problem.)



I was here about two months ago to get some preliminary information but was
really ready to plow into BCM full force. I am now. At the time, a gentleman
told me:





I could use a little more instruction or references to how I go about
attaching this; I'm fairly computer literate . for an old geezer. But I'm
not a guru. I do remember windows popping up when I first installed the BCM
but I vaguely remember opting out of connection to a server since I really
wasn't going to be sharing or collaborating. Then again. I may just THINK I
understood that is what I was doing but may have missed the point completely
since I had no prior frame of reference with BCM.



Any help would be appreciated, I'd like to have those files back. I assume
they have my calendar and my phone/contact directory. I do have the .pst on
another machine that I also decided to flatten and rebuild at the time but
it's too small to run BCM so I simply copied the .pst file. I don't know if
I need to do that on the new machine once I get the BCM files loaded. Would
appreciate a comment here as well.



Thanks for your help.

 

[BW]

jaygreg - do you have BCM actually installed as part of outlook now?

I'm having a similar issue. My hard drive crashed last week and I'm
desperately trying to reinstall my contacts. I have Outlook 2003 that
included BCM but it will no longer allow me to install the BCM. When I
install BCM and then open Outlook I keep getting error messages and
unless I uninstall, I can't even open outlook 2003.

I've managed to retrieve my two sets of .mdf and .ldf files but without
being able to install BCM, it seems I can't access them.

I was able to get my email back but not my contacts.

 

[jaygreg]

No, BW, I don't have it installed on the new machine. I keep staving off the
process by clicking the option to do it later.... when I know what the hell
I'm doing.

Hopefully, someone will give both of us a littel direction here soon.

 

[BW]

Hi Jaygreg,

I don't know if this link will help your problem but try this for more
info:

http://forums.wugnet.com/office/find-import-BCM-Outlook-ftopict403968.html

BW

 

[Leonid S. Knyshov]

Hi Jaygreg,

I don't know if this link will help your problem but try this for more
info:

http://forums.wugnet.com/office/find-import-BCM-Outlook-ftopict403968.html

I can salvage this data for both of you.

The process of reattaching files to a SQL instance is not complicated by
itself, but there may be other issues. My contact information is on my
website.
--
Leonid S. Knyshov, CEO
Crashproof Solutions, LLC - http://www.crashproofsolutions.com
MCP Exchange 2003/Small Business Server 2003
Microsoft Small Business Specialist Partner
See the tips and tricks section on my website for video tutorials on BCM
Send a smile to Microsoft (Office 2007 Beta feedback tool)!
http://tinyurl.com/m4omy

 

[jaygreg]

Thanks, BW. I'll give it a try.

Hi Jaygreg,

I don't know if this link will help your problem but try this for more
info:

http://forums.wugnet.com/office/find-import-BCM-Outlook-ftopict403968.html

BW

 

[jaygreg]

Is this an offer for free assisatance or a solicitation for business on a MS
forum?

 

[Leonid S. Knyshov]

Is this an offer for free assisatance or a solicitation for business on a
MS forum?

We invest about 60 hours per month in free support of several products such
as Exchange, Outlook, BCM, and SBS. As you can probably see, I don't
necessarily have the time to be answering questions in this group daily, but
I contribute whenever I can. Check my posting history.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Knyshov+BCM

Certain questions require interactive assistance. We charge an hourly fee to
resolve those issues. We then publish the procedure we ultimately used to
resolve the issue on both our website and the applicable forum. We haven't
failed to resolve an issue to date unless the data loss has been extremely
severe beyond the point of recovery using professional tools. Even so, we
have methods that enable re-creating data faster than the way it was
originally entered. If we see a business-critical data loss scenario, we can
help bring the company back online using a combination of data recovery
methods. It typically takes less than an hour to resolve an issue.

Microsoft used to have a disclaimer whereby customers were informed that
community members may charge a fee to resolve issues. I cannot find it at
the moment. The only time we will post an invitation to contact us directly
is when we feel it is no longer possible to resolve the issue in
non-interactive mode. It simply takes less time to bring a system into a
supported configuration using our remote access tools than it does to guess
at what the system configuration might look like.

The closest thing I can see to that disclaimer now is:
Advertising/Solicitation: These communities were created as a forum for
providing peer-to-peer assistance on Microsoft products and services. We ask
that you refrain from posting advertisements or solicitations that do not
pertain directly to the intended use and purpose of the newsgroup or chat.

Given that our services do specifically pertain to the intended use and
purpose of the newsgroup, especially given the amount of support we provide
at no charge, we feel that we are not in violation of this clause. We do
have clients all over US as direct consequence of our contributions, but
most of them chose to contact us directly unsolicited. We have been
contacted by a few people from Microsoft thanking us for our services.

I use an NNTP newsreader instead of the web interface, so my poster profile
is not as complete as I would like it to be. That's something I hope to
resolve in the near future.
--
Leonid S. Knyshov, CEO
Crashproof Solutions, LLC - http://www.crashproofsolutions.com
MCP Exchange 2003/Small Business Server 2003
Microsoft Small Business Specialist Partner
See the tips and tricks section on my website for video tutorials on BCM
Send a smile to Microsoft (Office 2007 Beta feedback tool)!
http://tinyurl.com/m4omy