Good news - Service Pack 1 is released

[Lon Orenstein]

Thanks very much to the BCM Team for the fixes in Service Pack 1, just released last night!!!

Here is a link to the BCM Team Blog explaining what they included:
http://blogs.msdn.com/bcm/default.aspx

Here is a link to the Office Online site to download the Service Pack 1 for all of Office 2007:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

Here is a link to download just the BCM Service Pack 1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BF-5481-460D-805D-6C274AC1D194&displaylang=en

As the Team says on their blog, it's our constant screaming and ranting that fuels their priorities in what to fix and enhance. They said it a little differently, but the point is that your contribution and feedback does get results. Here's a hurrah to all the other community members trying to make BCM a better product!!!

Thanks,
Lon

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Lon Orenstein
pinpointtools, llc
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Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies
Author of the eBook: Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Manager
www.pinpointtools.com

 

[Kajan]

Yes I agree with you, but the problem is that I cant install this uppgrade on
a Swedish version of BCM office 2007. It stops in the middle of installation
and says, cant write to mapisvc.inf. Wrong 1913.
Any ideas from someone what the pronblem can be?
Kajan in Sweden

 

[Luther]

Yes I agree with you, but the problem is that I cant install this uppgrade on
a Swedish version of BCM office 2007. It stops in the middle of installation
and says, cant write to mapisvc.inf. Wrong 1913.
Any ideas from someone what the pronblem can be?
Kajan in Sweden









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This issue has also been a problem for some Vista users with the BCM
v3 setup, not just SP1.

I think the problem is the permission on a folder or file.

Search this newsgroup for "mapisvc.inf" and you should find the fix--
what permission to change, and then the upgrade should work.

 

[daved]

I have a new computer with Office 2007 Student on it. Is there a trial for
just the BCM module? I want to see how it works in relation to Act 2007
before I buy it.

 

[Sat]

Hi Daved,

BCM is supported only in Small Business, Professional and Ultimate editions.

-Sat

 

[daved]

What are your thoughts on BCM vs. Act??? Can I keep track of quotes and sales?

 

[Lon Orenstein]

Absolutely! You can customize the Opportunity record with 40 extra fields
and customize the views of the Opps much better than ACT can display them.

HTH,
Lon

___________________________________________________________
Lon Orenstein
pinpointtools, llc
(e-mail address removed)
Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies
Author of the eBook: Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Manager
www.pinpointtools.com

 

[Steve]

BEWARE....if you have been using ACT for a long time and you have a lot of
history notes when you convert the data to BCM it does not carry over the
date of the note (timestamp). It changes all the dates to the current date
of the import. I was hoping SP1 fixed this issue but it did not. All that
data is worthless if a salesperson can't go back and see on what date he had
a certain conversation with a customer or on what date he last visited a
customer.