Is there any relationship between Outlook and BCM?

[Alan]

It seems that all information from Outlook needs to be duplicated in BCM and
if you change information on a contact in BCM and you want that change to
reflect in contacts in Outlook you have to make the change in contacts in
Outlook as well. There seems to be no relationship between Outlook and BCM.
Am I correct in this assumption??

 

[JoeM]

no, the contacts are copied from outlook to the bcm database - outlook just
knows to look for the contacts in bcm (sort of). For MS to have written
both solutions, I'm appaulled as to how poorly they work together. If I
developed solutions like this, my customers would string me to the nearest
tree. I guess thats the plus of having a monopoly. Run fast and far from
BCM. I wish I had.

 

[Glen]

BCM and Outlook are two entirely different databases. I believe MSFT's idea
was that outlook would be for personal info and BCM would be for business
info.

 

[Luther]

BCM and Outlook are two entirely different databases. I believe MSFT's idea
was that outlook would be for personal info and BCM would be for business
info.






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When you start using BCM, if you already had business contacts in
Outlook, you should drag (move) those to the BCM Business Contacts
folder.

 

[Per Olsen]

Please MS - Can you reply too this!!

Apparently OL2007 and BCM does NOT work together as one product. What any
business needs is a solid contactdatabase, but for some reason the BCM
contacts are considered secondary to the contacts of OL.

This leads to a heap of double work for all BCM users and adding all the
other integration problems - take a look in
microsoft.public.outlook.bcm - you are killing your clients!

Regards

 

[Luther]

Please MS - Can you reply too this!!

Apparently OL2007 and BCM does NOT work together as one product. What any
business needs is a solid contactdatabase, but for some reason the BCM
contacts are considered secondary to the contacts of OL.

This leads to a heap of double work for all BCM users and adding all the
other integration problems - take a look in
microsoft.public.outlook.bcm - you are killing your clients!

Regards

"Alan" <[email protected]> skrev i en meddelelse



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Lots of people use Outlook for all their email and contacts, both
personal and business.

BCM stores business contacts in a separate database, leaving the
Outlook contacts folder for friends and family.

 

[mrtimpeterson via OfficeKB.com]

BCM is a cobbled together SQL db that attempts to leverage off of the ever
dominant and popular Outlook UI. The intention was to add some back end guts
to Outlook without interfering with the main features of Outlook. What has
resulted from this 2 app marriage attempt is a mixed bag of confusing and
often less than graceful workflow limitations for end users to deal with.
The idea is good but the execution of the concept remains lacking for real
world ease of use in my opinion.

-THP

Please MS - Can you reply too this!!

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Lots of people use Outlook for all their email and contacts, both
personal and business.

BCM stores business contacts in a separate database, leaving the
Outlook contacts folder for friends and family.