Business Contact Manager and Exchange

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I work for a large college and we have Outlook 2003 on all our workstations
for handling our e-mail etc. We use exchange for all our e-mail needs. We
have all POP3 etc blocked at our firewall. We have licenses for Business
Contact Manager but are currently not using it. I have heard rumors that it
can not be used with Exchange or that it will have some significant limits.

Can anyone tell me if any of this is true? Or can I just install it and go
about using it per the documentation. Is there anything I or our Exchange
administrators need to do or know about before/after we install it? Does it
matter which version of Exchange we are using? I think we are on version 2000
or 2003. I am not sure at the moment as that is not my department and I am
still new to this organization and to Business Contact Manager.

Thanks for any info on the setup and use of Business Contact Manager with
Exchange that anyone can give me.

Ralph Malph

 

[Luther]

The initial release of BCM would not work with Exchange, but that got
fixed around BCMv1SP1 or BCMv2.

 

[mrtimpeterson via OfficeKB.com]

Ralph,

It is misleading to imply that BCM works "with" Exchange. BCM version 1's
classic limitation was that it did not permit you to have BCM in use with an
Outlook profile in an exchange environment at all. Version 2 of BCM can now
"co-exist" on a machine networked on Exchange but none of the BCM items are
shareable via Exchange like the rest of native Outlook is. They do not work
tother for sharing or collaboration. There are no public BCM folders, etc.
The only sharing of BCM data that is supported is via a peer to peer network
with appropriate user permissions, etc. BCM is a separate SQL db add-in to
Outlook. The BCM data is stored separately and it shares the same user
interface as Outlook thus appearing to be the same application.

-THP

The initial release of BCM would not work with Exchange, but that got
fixed around BCMv1SP1 or BCMv2.

I work for a large college and we have Outlook 2003 on all our workstations
for handling our e-mail etc. We use exchange for all our e-mail needs. We

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Ralph Malph

 

[Luther]

Just a quick clarification.

BCM is not merely an addin that uses Outlook as a UI. It is also a full
blown MAPI storage provider, like Outlook PSTs and Exchange. So, for
example, BCM Contacts show up in the Windows Address Book, search
programs that include MAPI stores automatically search BCM, BCM items
can be programmed through the Outlook object model, and so on.

There is however no integration between Exchange and BCM.

Ralph,

It is misleading to imply that BCM works "with" Exchange. BCM version 1's
classic limitation was that it did not permit you to have BCM in use with an
Outlook profile in an exchange environment at all. Version 2 of BCM can now
"co-exist" on a machine networked on Exchange but none of the BCM items are
shareable via Exchange like the rest of native Outlook is. They do not work
tother for sharing or collaboration. There are no public BCM folders, etc.
The only sharing of BCM data that is supported is via a peer to peer network
with appropriate user permissions, etc. BCM is a separate SQL db add-in to
Outlook. The BCM data is stored separately and it shares the same user
interface as Outlook thus appearing to be the same application.

-THP

The initial release of BCM would not work with Exchange, but that got
fixed around BCMv1SP1 or BCMv2.

I work for a large college and we have Outlook 2003 on all our workstations
for handling our e-mail etc. We use exchange for all our e-mail needs. We

[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]

Ralph Malph