> Tom,
>
> What I am understanding from your situation is you have upgraded Office to
> final version and left BCM to beta version. If you want to use BCM, you will
> need to upgrade BCM also. On small business trial download site, there are
> two download files. One is Office installation program and another is BCM.
> BCM file is X13-40150.exe. You will need to download this file, uninstall
> Beta version of following components and install RTM version with
> X13-40150.exe.
>
> a. Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007 (Beta)
> b. 2007 Microsoft Office System Primary Interop Assemblies (Beta)
> c. Microsoft Office Small Business Connectivity Components
> d. Microsoft Office Accounting 2007
>
> Once the RTM version of BCM is installed, you will see BCM configuration
> wizard when you start Outlook. This will allow you to choose BCM beta data
> and migrate them to RTM version.
>
> Now, if you have succesfully installed RTM version of BCM and you never saw
> BCM configuration dialog after starting Outlook, click Help->Configurare
> Business Contact Manager menu in Outlook. This will launch BCM wizard.
>
> -Mukesh
>
> --
> Mukesh Agarwal [MSFT]
> Visit team blog at
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> "Tom" <Tom[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A7CC4E30-4314-4D25-AC7C-3336D676152F[ at ]microsoft.com...
> > Clinton:
> >
> > I wish that were the case. I did the beta installs
> > Then the trial came out.
> > I uninstalled everything, I thought, but must have missed the uninstall of
> > BCM.
> > From then on I kept getting an error message that BCM wouldn't work with
> > this version, probably because the data was in the beta. BCM showed on
> > Outlook and after about 15 days of no responses from anyone, I just
> > deleted
> > that folder.
> >
> > But! After 21 days someone that answers to Stonemountain said he/she was
> > having the same problem. I am thinking my data is lost, but I think
> > 1) they still have their and if anyone went deeper into their challege
> > would
> > find that the
> > 2) BCM folder is still there and that
> > 3) they are continually getting the same error messages and that4) they
> > don't have BCM beta in their list of loaded programs as I didn't.
> >
> > I think mine is a lost cause, but I didn't have much data there so any
> > help
> > for Stonemountain would be appreciated.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > "Clinton Ford [MSFT]" wrote:
> >
> >> Let me try to understand your situation better. Is the following
> >> correct?
> >>
> >> 1.) You installed Outlook and BCM Beta 1
> >> 2.) You created Business Contacts
> >> 3.) You uninstalled BCM and Outlook Beta 1
> >> 4.) You installed the trial version of Office 2007 Small Business Edition
> >> and Business Contact Manager
> >> 5.) When starting Outlook, you got the following message:
> >> "Recovering BCM Beta data"
> >> 6.) You removed BCM from your Outlook profile
> >> 7.) Now you cannot access your business contacts
> >> --
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http://blogs.msdn.com/bcm> >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> >> rights
> >> "Tom" <Tom[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:5E57F028-0537-47FF-9ECC-B42B11919B46[ at ]microsoft.com...
> >> >I have the trial and now have lost all my BCM data. I was getting the
> >> > following until I deleted the BCM portion that was being loaded.
> >> >
> >> > Outlook 2007 trial small business. On start up I get three error
> >> > messages
> >> > that data entered in the beta cannot be opened in the contact mgr. So
> >> > I
> >> > say
> >> > ok to all and Outlook opens. When I click on the business contact mgr
> >> > folder
> >> > under all mail items I get the above error message.
> >> >
> >> > Help?
> >> >
> >> > How do I get all my data back?
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>