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1.BCM to CRM 3.0 Migration Q - Data Migration Wizard for Outlook BCM
Hi All,
This weekend I will be migrating from BCM to CRM 3.0 (on SBS 2003) and was
hoping to get a heads up on the following:
1) clarify a "Known Issues with the Data Migration Wizard for Microsoft
Outlook with Business Contact Manager" point that sticks out in the
documentation and in my long hours of reading online namely:
"The link between activities and parent accounts and contacts is not
preserved during migration.
If you have accounts or contacts in Microsoft Outlook with Business Contact
Manager that have activities, such as tasks or appointments, associated with
them, when you migrate the data to Microsoft CRM, the activities are not
associated with the accounts or contacts. These activities will be migrated,
but the Regarding field will be blank. "
surely this is a fundamental flaw here that anyone that has used BCM will
have history attached to each - we don't have a large amount of accounts -
several hundred - but they each have 40-100+ items of history so to go
through and manually manipulate these unassociated items/contacts will be a
nightmare!
how does one get around this using the migration tool (given I am just a
small operation so can't afford an expensive 3rd party tool)?
2) also in addition to the above any other gotchyas to be aware of using the
"Data Migration Wizard for Office Outlook with BCM" tool?
thanks in advance!
Nick
2.Can I share BCM V2 Database on 2003 by using BCM Data Admin Tool
I created a BCM database in my local machine and I would like to move it to
the server so other machines on the network can have access to it as well. I
used osql -E -S command to stop the BCM database from my machine and moved it
to the server, and I re-attached BCM database from the server.
EXEC sp_attach_db @dbname = N'STS_Config', @filename1 =
N'C:\new_database_location\STS_Config.mdf', @filename2 =
N'C:\new_database_location\STS_Config_log.ldf'
Can I have other machine attach to the Database in the server the same way?
Since I am the owner, I still have to give permission to user to access it.
But I would rather perfer to have Admin on the server have the total control
of DB. It seems MS2007 BCM Data Admin Tool is the way to go, but does it work
on the database created by BCM V2 on MS2003?
I installed the BCM Data Admin Tool + SQL 2005 Express, when I launch the
Admin Tool it did not find the BCM Instance, is there a special way to
configure that?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
3.(revised) INSTALL BCM - uninstall BCM - install BCM - still no BCM
An Addendum - 10 minutes later)
I just went into the DATA FILE MANAGEMENT setting on OLK (outlook) and added
BCM. Like before - it installs it but there is NO TOOLBAR so I cannot
restore - move - or add contact to my old BCM contact database. (from a
previous version of outlook). SO - my problems are reduced to ADDING THE BCM
TOOLBAR to the top of my OUTLOOK 2003 window.
I have the OUTLOOK CONNECTOR showing but no BCM. thanx again - in advance -
DRIX
"Drix" wrote:
> HI - whew - please help me get my OUTLOOK w/bcm to show my BC's again.
>
> I excitedly have the fat 2 disk set of OFFICE SBM 2006. It works but for the
> BCM (the second most important part after email). In increasingly desperate
> attempts to get it to function correctly, I read and did most of what was
> suggested here in this forum. I put in CD ONE to put in OUTLOOK, put in CD 2
> to added BCM (and accounting) and after several attempts of install and
> un-install and re-install I got it to work - BUT with NO TOOLBAR. sigh... 2
> days full of frustrating hours I have NO BCM, NO TOOLBAR and NO MORE CLUES as
> to what to do.
>
> PULEEEEZE TEAM MS - help me get back to work here.
> FEEDBACK CLUES: The registry (as in another post) says: REGDWORD (3) and
> I've done ALL of the updates. BIG CLUE - I also re-installed WINXP (pro) and
> noticed it added me (log in name) twice, once as DRIX (primary) and NOW I'm
> DRIX.millhouse (my network) with my other programs still listed there but w/o
> functionality to them. (sigh again...) PULEEEZE help me kidz - im losing
> time - patience - AND the names/numbers to MY CLIENTS!!!!!!! (yikes!)
> THANX - I'll be here waiting for your holy words of cure.
> Drix
4.INSTALL BCM - uninstall BCM - install BCM - still no BCM
HI - whew - please help me get my OUTLOOK w/bcm to show my BC's again.
I excitedly have the fat 2 disk set of OFFICE SBM 2006. It works but for the
BCM (the second most important part after email). In increasingly desperate
attempts to get it to function correctly, I read and did most of what was
suggested here in this forum. I put in CD ONE to put in OUTLOOK, put in CD 2
to added BCM (and accounting) and after several attempts of install and
un-install and re-install I got it to work - BUT with NO TOOLBAR. sigh... 2
days full of frustrating hours I have NO BCM, NO TOOLBAR and NO MORE CLUES as
to what to do.
PULEEEEZE TEAM MS - help me get back to work here.
FEEDBACK CLUES: The registry (as in another post) says: REGDWORD (3) and
I've done ALL of the updates. BIG CLUE - I also re-installed WINXP (pro) and
noticed it added me (log in name) twice, once as DRIX (primary) and NOW I'm
DRIX.millhouse (my network) with my other programs still listed there but w/o
functionality to them. (sigh again...) PULEEEZE help me kidz - im losing
time - patience - AND the names/numbers to MY CLIENTS!!!!!!! (yikes!)
THANX - I'll be here waiting for your holy words of cure.
Drix
5.upgrading from Outlook/BCM 2003 to Outlook/BCM 2007
I recently upgraded my computer to Vista 32bit with a clean install. I
backed up all important to another system before the installation. I also
upgraded to Office 2007, including Outlook 2007. Then I installed Business
Contact Manager for Outlook 2007. Now I would like to restore the backed up
database from the previous version.
When I use the 'Manage Database' dialog and select 'Restore Database...", I
then pick the Browse button and navigate to the location of my backed up
database from the previous version. The name of my file is
'MSBusinessContactManager.msbcm'. It was not password protected. After
picking the 'OK' button, I get the message:
"This backup file was created in an earlier version 2.0.3606.0. It must be
migrated to the current version 3.0.5625.0."
I then pick 'OK' and it looks like the restore is working. However, it stops
and replys with this message:
"Cannot restore this database because you were not authorized to back up or
restore databases when this was originally backed up. For more information,
contact the database owner or the system administrator for more information.
Your local database was not changed."
Now I'm worried... I have a few years worth of contact information and
communication history. I would really like to restore this database. I
didn't password protect the original database file and I backed up
regularly. I never had a system failure, so I never needed to restore. I
would think this would be a reasonable method for upgrading from an older
version to Outlook/BCM2007. What other method should I have used?
BTW, after upgrading from Windows XP SP2 to Windows Vista 32bit, I used the
same computer name, description, and am part of the same workgroup.
I don't want to go back to XP and reinstall Outlook/BCM 2003 to use my BCM
database.
How can I restore this older database with Outlook/BCM2007?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Gregg
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