bcm, How to share Business Contact Manager data between homeworkers

1. Share/Copy .PST data PC#1 Outlook 2003 {--} PC#2 Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager - Microsoft Office Outlook

2. Sharing Business Contact Manager Data using Exchange Server Hostin

I have just started a business with two partners and we are interested in 
sharing calendar and contact data, and I am exploring exchange server hosting 
providers.  I just got a new pc with Outlook 2003 with BCM, and I would like 
the three of us to be able to share business contact data and updates via 
BCM.  From the postings I have read it is difficult to tell whether it is 
possible to share BCM data.  I see that the only way to use BCM with an 
Exchange server is to create a separate profile -- this sounds cumbersome if 
I would have to continually switch profiles, and it does not tell me whether 
the BCM database can be shared.  I have also seen mention of a new version of 
BCM (v.3?) due out this spring.  Can someone tell me what the exact state of 
play is on this issue?

3. Sharing Business Contact Manager Data using Exchange Server Ho

4. Business Contact Manager shared database when shared

Does anyone know if its possible to cache a BCM database which is shared so 
its available when offline?
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Gav

5. Business Contact Manager Sharing Contacts in 2000 Domain - Microsoft Office

6. Shared Contacts in Business Contact Manager

I'm concerned that I've found a major flaw with BCM.  It appears that when 
you are sharing your database, and some individual you have shared it to has 
a contact open before you, and then you go in and update some items (like 
adding notes on the details tab), that when you save and close your data it 
does not save since someone else had the contact open first.  I understand 
that this is common in most database programs; however, what concerns me is 
that there is no way for the second individual that opened the contact to be 
notified that his changes won't take...even saving and closing the file and 
then reopening it to check it reveals it has saved...until the first user 
closes the contact and all your changes were wiped clean.

...please tell me there is someway to notify a user that there changes won't 
take.

7. Outlook 2003 and Business Contact Manager - sharing contacts

8. share contacts in business contact manager

When is Microsoft going to make BCM a viable competitor to ACT?  Even the new 
version of ACT! is so clunky and it tries to take over your calendar and 
email and even web browsing, doing a worse version of all three.  The only 
thing it does do well, however, is allow different sales and marketing people 
to share contacts data.  This is a must for any company with more than one 
employee.  And those with only one employee are unlikely to need anything 
more than standard Outlook, so who exactly is BCM designed for?
Microsoft need to integrate BCM with Exchange so it becomes a proper 
business tool, then they might have more commercial success with this 
product.  Goodness knows, with ACT! still stuck in the 90s, the market is 
crying out for it!