Office 2003 Service Pack 1 and BCM

[Thorbjorn Sundboe]

I have skimmed through the description of the content of this SP - I cannot
find anything for BCM that has not been released before and that targets the
numerous stability issues with this application.

I hope I have been overlooking the numerous BCM-updates that MUST be in this
SP. Have I or is MS ignoring this app. and its customers using it?

Thorbjorn

 

[John Christian]

Thorbjorn:

I installed SP1 and can confirm that there is certainly no functional
changes to BCM. MS may have fixed the forms cache problem, I don't know
yet.

I also am most anxious to hear *something* about the status of BCM - will
there be an update? If so, when? What things might be
fixed/addressed/improved etc.?

John

 

[Thorbjorn Sundboe]

I have been letting the MS error report generator run wild on all my
problems with BCM the last 9 months, posted in forums, sent MS extended
feedback. Almost had a non-paid part-time job with MS for this. To no avail
apparantly.

Thorbjorn

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The forms cache problem is the one BCM issue that definitely is supposed to
be fixed.

FWIW, Microsoft tries to avoid putting feature changes in SPs (but some
always slip in anyway). The exceptions this time are some significant
changes to OneNote and a small enhancement to the Outlook junk mail filter.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you install the separate BCM SP1 from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...9-46ac-4a27-b4c7-be05723d53e5&DisplayLang=en?

Fixes (few) are listed at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=839881

 

[Thorbjorn Sundboe]

Thanks for this info - I did overlook it.

I have now applied both SPs. The first time I opened an email in business
history after applying the SPs, I got the message "BCM has encountered a
problem and needs to close. Sorry for the inconvenience".

We are writing 2004 and progressing fast. Puhhh.

Thorbjorn

 

[Patricia Cardoza [Outlook MVP]]

What errors?

--
Patricia Cardoza
Outlook MVP
Author - Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Lead Author - Access 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference
Author - Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft OneNote 2003

http://blogs.officezealot.com/cardoza

I just applied the latest Office 2003 Service Pack that was released on

7/27 and now I cannot open any BCM related contacts or accounts without
errors popping up!

Looks like I am the only one out here so far with this problem and will

have to reinstall the whole office suite to get rid of the patch (it has no
uninstall/removal)

 

[Guest]

Fortunately I found a related post on the outlook-contacts board that suggested clearing the forms cache and that seems to have done the trick. all clear for now, only lost 2 hours of work fighting with it.

- mark