> On Feb 6, 8:11 pm, "Steve" <m...[ at ]somewhere.com> wrote:
>> I do think I may have to wait for the service pack although it willbe
>> interesting to see what they do
>>
>> The crux of the problem seems to be That I had to do a completely clean
>> install because XP Pro couldn't be upgraded to Home Premium. I did the
>> clean
>> install (probably best in the long run anyway) and had to reinstall
>> Office
>> 2003 SBE w/BCM. During the install it creates a Group BCMUsers with no
>> members. Apparently, Vista Home Premium has absolutely no facility to add
>> a
>> user to a group. I tried loading the Local User and Groups snap-in and it
>> is
>> disabled in Home Premium (although for the life of me I can;t figure out
>> why
>> they would do that for Local Groups). I tried using NET.EXE to add a user
>> to
>> a local group and kept receiving a system error 5.
>>
>> So ... it seems I need to downgrade to XP so that I can use the BCM and
>> hope
>> I find out when the service pack comes through (if ever)
>>
>> "Luther" <enown...[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1170736366.279272.36420[ at ]m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Feb 5, 11:51 am, "Steve" <m...[ at ]somewhere.com> wrote:
>> >> Clinton
>>
>> >> I am using a local database. However the installation hangs during the
>> >> install at the very last step(s?) "Installing Services". Am I missing
>> >> something? I am not sharing the DB. However I did have the DB copied
>> >> to
>> >> the
>> >> same directory as in XP before I did the install. Would this be
>> >> messing
>> >> it
>> >> up?
>>
>> >> Thanks
>> >> Steve
>>
>> >> "Clinton Ford [MSFT]" <ClintonFordM...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com>
>> >> wrote
>> >> in
>> >> messagenews:e5OY$3VSHHA.412[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>
>> >> > Steve,
>>
>> >> > This configuration is currently unsupported, but we're continuing
>> >> > work
>> >> > on
>> >> > a service pack to address changes in Vista. If you're using
>> >> > Business
>> >> > Contact Manager with a local database, this should work fine.
>> >> > Sharing
>> >> > databases requires additional security configuration that may fail
>> >> > with
>> >> > a
>> >> > descriptive error message.
>>
>> >> > Visit team blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/bcm>> >> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> >> > rights
>>
>> >> > "Steve" wrote in message ...
>> >> >>I upgraded from XP to Vista this weekend and reinstalled my copy of
>> >> >>MS
>> >> >>Office SBE 2003 with Business Contact Manager. HOwever when I went
>> >> >>to
>> >> >>install the BCM it stated there is a known compatibility issue with
>> >> >>Vista.
>> >> >>I should contact the manufacturer of the product. Well I can't find
>> >> >>anything on the MS site alluding to the compability issue and if
>> >> >>they
>> >> >>plan
>> >> >>to resolve it ( I am thinking not since they have had 4+ years to
>> >> >>resolve
>> >> >>it).
>>
>> >> >> Does anyone know what the issue is? If they are going to fix it? I
>> >> >> would
>> >> >> like to know since I would rather downgrade back to XP then to have
>> >> >> to
>> >> >> pay for the upgrade to Office 2007.
>>
>> >> >> Any help will be appreciated.
>>
>> >> >> Steve- Hide quoted text -
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>> > Copy the database to the same folder is a good thing. v3 also uses
>> > that folder.
>>
>> > I upgraded a machine with office2003/bcmv2 to a Vista beta, and the
>> > basic BCM functionality kept working. I don't know if Vista changed in
>> > the final release, or the setup program, which I didn't try, has
>> > problems on Vista. Also, although sqlserver/MSDE had permission to go
>> > anywhere on the disk on Xp, that may have changed on Vista. You may be
>> > able to tinker with folder permissions and get it running, but your
>> > best bet is probably to wait for the service pack Clinton mentioned.
>> > Or upgrade to Office 2007...- Hide quoted text -
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>
> I know that with Xp, there was a note somewhere in the BCM docs that
> sharing databases was only supported on Xp Pro, and not Home, although
> that may have been limited to sharing the database with other
> machines. Perhaps there's a similar limitation with BCM on Vista, as
> the Home version is not intended for business use.
>