Importing Outlook 2003 Contacts to WSS

[Dan]

I posted this to the WSS newsgroup, with no joy and a recommendation to post
it here. So, hopefully someone can help.

I am running the latest greatest version of Outlook - 2003 with BCM, on
WinXP SP2 box. Brand new box by the way. I am attempting to import Contacts
from Outlook 2003 into WSS using standard WSS import capablity associated
with the Contacts Web Part. When I click on the "Import Contacts" link in
the WSS Contacts Web Part I am asked to insert the Office2003 Professional
CD. The CD will spin for about 5 minutes after inserting and eventually
returns an error-
""Installation Error, File Not Found
A Required Installation File SKU111.CAB could not be found"
I searched the CD found the file and tried again. No joy. I moved the file
to a directory on my hard drive, but no joy again! Same error.
Can anyone tell me what's up and how this can be overcome.
Also, the WSS server is a remote server box not part of my domain and the
box does not have Office 2003 installed.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Dan

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

It's probably trying to install the Address Book Control, which is an
Outlook component normally installed on first use. You can try running
Office 2003 setup from Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs and explicitly
installiing that component from the list of Outlook components.

Alternatively, export from your contacts folder to an Excel spreadsheet.
Then open the spreadsheet and define a named range for the data you want to
import. You should then be able to use the Create | Import Spreadsheet
command to create a new contacts list containing the data from the
spreadsheet.

 

[Dan]

Ok here is the answer.
The Catastrophic Failure was being caused because the Address Book was
pointed to "Business Contacts" rather than Contacts.
Business Contacts is part of BCM and once I told the Address Book to use
Contacts it worked ok.

 

[Dan]

Ok spoke too soon. It worked once without the erro, but after a reboot and
retry it still gives the error but allows the import. Very odd!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can probably isolate whether this is a BCM issue (I suspect it is) by
trying again with a profile that doesn't include BCM.

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

 

[Dan]

Sue,

Sure as shootin, when I pick a profile not using BCM there is no
"Catastrophic Error" message displayed.
So there we go. BCM! Nice idea, works pretty well but (obviously) has its
problems.

Dan