Buisness Contact Manager 2003

When I open Microsoft Outlook 2003 Pro edition with Buisness Contact Manager. 
The add in Buisness Contact manager tool bar does not show up on the Menu.I 
have the buisnes contacts and accounts. However when I try to open the 
buisness contact form it says, buisness contact manager was unable to 
intilize this form. I have when to about outlook and there is nothing there 
for me to enable or disable. I have tryed to clear my cache also with no 
luck. I do get a error when I open Outlook it shows a bar and says finalizing 
buisness contact manager for outlook then stops and puts a error up that 
says.(Your OFT file for message class IPM.Contact. BCM.Account has awrong 
version. Requested version 2.00.3516.00. oft form version 1.001616.00. and 
does not let buisness contact manager intilize.When I go to forms it shows a 
version of 1.00.1616.00 I read some discussion on I need to mabey update to 
version 2 . I f so how would I do this. I would appreciate any help with this.

When I open Microsoft Outlook 2003 Pro edition with Buisness Contact Manager. 
The add in Buisness Contact manager tool bar does not show up on the Menu.I 
have the buisnes contacts and accounts. However when I try to open the 
buisness contact form it says, buisness contact manager was unable to 
intilize this form. I have when to about outlook and there is nothing there 
for me to enable or disable. I have tryed to clear my cache also with no 
luck. I do get a error when I open Outlook it shows a bar and says finalizing 
buisness contact manager for outlook then stops and puts a error up that 
says.(Your OFT file for message class IPM.Contact. BCM.Account has awrong 
version. Requested version 2.00.3516.00. oft form version 1.001616.00. and 
does not let buisness contact manager intilize.When I go to forms it shows a 
version of 1.00.1616.00 I read some discussion on I need to mabey update to 
version 2 . I f so how would I do this. I would appreciate any help with this.

Like earlier posted you said business tools was not available

Go to help > about Microsoft Outlook and check if you anything in the 
disabled items and if you do try enabling it

Also how did you install BCM ? did you do it from a CD or you download the 
update

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Regards

Raul Thomas

Raul 
Thank you for you reply. I installed BCM from a cd. However after writing I 
went back and re-installed BCM then re-started my computer and BCM showed up 
and all was well. Thank you for you help. It seems that you need to uninstall 
BCM from the add and remove in the controll panel then re-boot and then 
re-install BCM. After which I got my updates and re-installed them. Then re- 
booted. After that I went to Buisnes tools and selected manage data base and 
followed directions and selected were I had backed up my BCM. Everything 
works great. I really appreciate all the helpfull information in the 
discussion group. Many thanks Okie Tom

Now that I'm reading through several posts and having experienced this issue 
myself --it must be happening to several people.  
Even though you have enabled Business Contact Manger, it has disabled itself.

Go to the Outlook menu, select HELP, look for Disabled Items.  Bet, you'll 
find BCM listed there.  
Good luck.  (This was a tip I received from MicroSoft via 866-452-4755 -- a 
real person!!  I've been struggling with this issue for weeks.   Found the 
number today.  Who knows - MicroSoft might be improving customer service a 
little bit.)
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BrainerdCMA