BCM install & how to back it up Q

[Phil Partridge]

Sue kindly replied to my original post in MS.P.O.install. <SEE BELOW>

Have a Client who is about to get Office 2003 with BCM, as he wants
'something' to manage contacts, follow-up calls etc.

They have a Windows 2000 Server (for file & print) and use POP3 to pull
email directly from the ISP. - I know, but there are only 4 people in
the office!
I have re-directed 'My Documents' to a share on the Server, and would
like to 'force' BCM to put its' database(s) (and whatever else needs it)
on the Server to make backing up easier. - I want to protect them from a
WS failure if possible.

Can this be done?

Will it slow BCM to a crawl?

Any other thoughts/solutions?

TIA,
Phil Partridge.

<ORIGINAL POST / ANSWER> - Sorry don't know how to cross-post from
ancient client software!

Sue wrote;

No, BCM always uses a local database, by design.
And it has its own newsgroup at microsoft.public.outlook.bcm.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

All,

Is anyone using, or supporting a Client using BCM?

If so, how have you dealt with backup, or where it puts the database(s)
it creates?

I have just got a copy, and put it (admittedly on a s/a machine) to see
what you get, and to get an idea what I will be taking on support- wise.
Standalone, it has dumped the MSDE on the local machine.. Fine as I do
not have a Server, or MS SQL Server here.
Will it discover and use the SBS component? - Talking SBS2000 for the
first Client who will get it.

Many resources (even Microsoft) seem to be dated back to 2003, when it
first came out. They suggest it is a little sluggish, and it appears so
on a W2k 2.4Ghz P4.

Any thoughts, and caveats, gratefully received. - I do NOT want to end
up with data on client machines if I can help it.

TIA,
Philip Partridge

Philip Partridge