Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 compatible PocketPC application is released and live

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 This is to announce that the release of our Pocket PC application that will allow you to sync Business Contacts and a subset of your History Items to your Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 compatible Pocket PC platform devices has now gone live.

 

The link to the software download page is here:

 

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7BC78C14-7143-41D9-84A9-BD628DB7B6A0&displaylang=en

 

A link to help you determine which device platform type you own is here:

 

https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6175789

This version also allows you to make calls, send mails, go to the Home Page, etc. of the Business Contact directly from the device itself, if that device is capable of performing those tasks with other contacts on the device.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2007
    I take it that this release is not smartphone compatible? If it is not, will there be a smartphone release?

  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2007
    We are working on a version that will be compatible on the Smart Phone platform that will work with Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 compatible devices. There is no exact release date for this yet, but we are aiming for a time within the next 3 months or so.

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2007
    This version is a big improvment!! I had hoped that this version would support incoming Caller ID lookup. My customers are very unhappy that they lose this capability by migrating their contacts to BCM and want to go back to ACT. Is there any short term work around to this? Possibly synching BCM to the users contacts? Please help!

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2007
    vcrocca, the current workaround is to copy and paste the Business Contacts into Outlook Contacts, and sync to the device. Or another workaround is to export BCM contacts into a CSV file, open the file and remove everything except the relevant name and phone numbers by deleting columns in the Excel Sheet, save the file and import it into Outlook Contacts. Though these are not ideal solutions, it will solve the Caller ID lookup for the time being. Hope this helps, thanks.

  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2007
    Hi AllThe system requirement for the released updated does not indicate a mention of windows mobile 6.0will this still work ??

  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2007
    Yes Business Contact Manager for Pocketpc is supported on Windows mobile 6. Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    May 09, 2007
    I want to use Microsoft Voice Command for Windows Mobile with my BCM Contacts. Do both of these great Microsoft products syncronise with each other? If not when?

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2007
    Well, BCM for PocketPC doesn't work on Windows Vista, because it seems to be that it doesn't support the Windows Vista Mobile Device Center. Will there come an update allowing usage under Vista? Timeframe for?

  • Anonymous
    May 14, 2007
    Clauss, BCM for PocketPC does work on Vista with Windows Mobile Device Center. Can you check for the following to see if it works?Make sure you have Windows Mobile 5.0 installed on your devices. Any eariler versions of Windows Mobile are not supported;Make sure you have both Windows Mobile Device center and Windows Mobile Device center driver update installed on your computer; Have BCM installed and configured with your outlook profile on your computer. With these requirements met it should work, thanks.

  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2007
    I've installed BCM for Pocket PC on vista but and it works as long as do do not hit the sync settings in Mobile Device Center 6.1. Then Mobile Device Center hangs, menaimng that link doesnt work....

  • Anonymous
    August 11, 2007
    Thanks for the app - I was able to sync by business contacts to my T Mobile Wing (WM6). I notice that the bcm contacts are rightly stored separately from the outlook contacts....I am having the following issues though...When I create a new mail using the messaging app - it still autofills from the outlook contacts and does not populate matching email address from the BCM contacts. The messaging app in wm6 allows you to use more than one address book. It asks for a server name and directory path for additional address books. Is there a way to specify the bcm address book here?The same with the dialer. When I start to enter the first few digits of the phone number - smart dialer only shows matches from the contacts and not from BCM contacts. To call a BCM contact you actually have to open BCM, scroll to the contact and then click on the number and then call - completely negating the smart dial process.If I have to chose one over another - is there a way to make the BCM contacts as default over the outlook contacts in wm6? Will appreciate it if this comment can be shared with a wm6 person for perspective as well.Thanks for any comments.

  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2007
    How are you doing with the SmartPhone Edition of the BCM application?I'm looking at getting a Motorola Q from Sprint, but as far as I can tell, I'm not going to be able to use the PocketPC app for BCM with it.Is that correct?

  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2007
    Hi allI synced the BCM database with my pocket pc. Unfortunately somehow mysteriously my outlook database has now lost about 3/4 of all contacts but they are still on the mobile device. These contacts seem not to sync back to my outlook bcm.Also whenever i try to access the setting of the BCM Manager in the windows mobile device center i get an error message: Windows Mobile Device Center Host has stopped workin.What can you tell me about this behaviour?Frank

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2007
    is there a way to move the BCM contacts from the device out to my memory card? how?

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    October 11, 2007
    Hi,I have Windows Vista Business on an Athlon 64 4800 with plenty of memory and disk space and iPAQ hw6915. I have installed Windoows Mobile Device Center 6.1. I have also installed Business Contacts for Pocket PC.The first couple of times I tried to sync I got a "Sync error: Business Contacts: attention required" Then it reports that sync Completed but no Business Contacts have been added to my iPAQ!Any ideas about how I can resolve this?

  • Anonymous
    November 12, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2007
    Is your device a pocket PC or Smartphone? I hope you are installing right application. let us know the device that you have and the application you tried to installThanks

  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    January 25, 2008
    The latest workaround for the business contacts not syncing to the Pocket PC was in April.  Has there been any further progress or is duplicating those business contacts into Contacts with only phone numbers still the only solution?  Also, I have Vista Business and a Sprint Mogul and when selecting the sync settings for Business Contacts in the Mobile Device Center, it crashes MDC.  Is there a solution for that yet?

  • Anonymous
    February 07, 2008
    I am running the pocket pc version. Everytime I load the windows mobile device centre under Vista and click on sync settings the program freezes. Is there a workaround for this??

  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2008
    On my Pocket PC, I am running really low on the main storage memory.  Is there a way to store the Business Contact Manager information onto my external Mini SD Card on my Pocket PC???

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2008
    What is meant by "subset of history items". Specifcally, can communcation histories like business notes be added on the smartphone and then uploaded (sync ?) to to the PC version.Thanks

  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2008
    Hi boabola,Please refer to the FAQ link:http://blogs.msdn.com/bcm/archive/2008/02/12/troubleshooting-bcm-for-pocket-pc-smartphone.aspx-Sateesh

  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2008
    Hi Klee2041,Can you please look at the above link for an answer?-Sateesh

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2008
    I've got a PocketPC with Mobile 5.0 and installed the BCM Mobile. I've suddenly had a lot of mysterious problems with my Plantronics bluetooth headset that I didn't have before.  It has spontaneously turned off or the connection. ??? And when I try to turn it back on, it hangs.  I've had to reset my MDA (latest available patches) five or six times over the last two days.  When it comes back on it's fine -- until some time after I synch.  Then I know it's going south because my headset beeps in my ear.  Not good!The only thing I've done is install BCM mobile, so I'm quite suspicious of it.  Anyone else had this issue?

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2008
    I have a Sprint Mogul PPC and have recently downloaded the MS BCMV3PPC software for my phone.  When I receive a call from a contact that is only in the BCM folder, the phone only displays the incoming phone number and not the contact information associated with that number.  However when I receive a call from someone who is just in my outlook contacts, all of their information is displayed so I know who it is that is calling me.  Is there any way to get the full contact information displayed when I receive a call from someone that is in the BCM folder.

  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2008
    I have recently purchased an HP iPAQ 910, great phone by the way.  However the screen is small so the touch screen feature is sometimes difficult to us.The phone has both a scroll wheel and a 5 way nav button.  However, in BCM contact record these features are disabled and I can only use the scroll bar.  As the screen is on the smaller side it makes it difficult to use those scroll bars.  Is there something I am doing wrong that the wheell and 5 way nav do not work?  Are these not support yet?

  • Anonymous
    September 15, 2008
    BCM Mobile crashes WMDC on Vista 64bit when using Windows Mobile 6.1 and attempting to set Sync Settings for BCM "History" I concur 100% with niklasg who wrote: <blockquote>I've installed BCM for Pocket PC on vista but and it works as long as do do not hit the sync settings in Mobile Device Center 6.1. Then Mobile Device Center hangs, menaimng that link doesnt work....</blockquote> The very same computer I'm using "worked well" with a WinMo 5.1 device. There were no problems at all with Sync Settings for BCM (including History). However, using BCM Mobile with WinMo 6.1 crashes WMDC whenever access is attempted to the Sync Settings link for BCM.

      • boo hoo - - - (I sell the combo of BCM and MOA) to clients... no my mobile demo crashes the app - - -boo hoo - - - Hope you folks can patch. Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    September 15, 2008
    PS... re: post above I've tried everything to assure a clean install BTW. *Removed original Sync Partnership with older device *Uninstalled BCM on the PC *Uninstalled BCM on the WinMo 6.1 device *Completely uninstalled Windows Mobile Device Center ** I even did a hard reset on the WinMo device (Samsung i760 with WinMo 6.1) After re-installing everything on the PC and using a completely clean mobile device.... end game was the same result WMDC crashes when BCM Sync Settings accessed using Vista 64 bit OS in partnership with Windows Mobile 6.1 device. Hope this clarifies the environment, thanks.

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2008
    Hi Do you have 32 or 64 bit WMDC on your machine? Thanks Vinit[MSFT]

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2008
    When will I be able to enter history items into BCM directly on my WM6.1 PPC?? I am on the verge of buying a Palm phone and using ACT! Mobile because I'm realizing how useful this could be for me. Seems like Microsoft should be able to do this!!!

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2008
    Hi We have received this feature request from other customer as well. As of now we are definately considering it for our future release. -Vinit [MSFT]

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2008
    Hi We have received this feature request from other customers as well. As of now we are definately considering it for our future release. -Vinit [MSFT]

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2008
    Hi We have received this feature request from other customers as well. As of now we are definately considering it for our future release. -Vinit [MSFT]

  • Anonymous
    September 17, 2008
    are comments disabled this morning ? I'm unable to post ? Vinit, you can email me directly at wigital [at] msn (dot) com

  • Anonymous
    September 17, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    September 17, 2008
    Hi Mark For now i would recommend you to uninstall WMDC 6.1 and install WMDC 6.0 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=83D513EA-9DF9-4920-AF33-3A0E2E4E7BEB&displaylang=en Thanks Vinit [MSFT]

  • Anonymous
    September 27, 2008
    I have been syncing my BCM database with Business Contacts on my Ipaq 110 with WM 6. I added another database to BCM and it seems that Business Contacts on my Ipaq synced the data from both databases and I ended up with all the data merged together in BCM. I was able to restore a backup of my database, but is there any way to have more than one databse in BCM and sync only one database to Business Contacts?

  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2008
    Hi BCM on your Pocket Pc would sync with which ever database you currently have running on your desktop. I would recommend you to only connect your PPC with the database you want to sync. You can definately have mulpitle databases on the desktop and connect only the required database with your ppc. Thanks Vinit [MSFT]

  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2008
    Thanks for the quick response, and on a weekend! Is the database that is "running" the last one that I opened up? Because I don't use or open the database every day, so I'm trying to understand how the PPC decides which to sync with. Roberta

  • Anonymous
    September 29, 2008
    Hi So when you have your Outlook running with BCM on the desktop, you are attached to a BCM DB on desktop. When you connect your PPC to the desktop, BCM PPC application will try to sycn with the database currently attached to your Outlook profile on the desktop. So my recommendation is to not connect your PPC if you do not want to sync it. I hope i answered your question here. Thanks Vinit [MSFT]

  • Anonymous
    October 05, 2008
    I am having problems trying to sync business contacts with my new HTC Touch Pro. The mobile has WM 6.1 and the PC has Vista. Firstly I installed Business Contact Manager for Smartphone, but when I attached my phone it said that the device was not supported. I then installed Business Contact Manager for Pocket PC (which is intended for WM 5.0 devices). Using this I managed to get BCM up and running on the mobile as well as syncing with the PC. However, the display on the mobile is messed up and I frequently recieve error messages when trying to use BCM. Is there a version of BCM available that works with WM 6.1?

  • Anonymous
    October 05, 2008
    Hi Vinit [MSFT] I finally got around to trying the 32bit installer of WMDC on my 64bit machine... (to remind you, this is in reference to BCM Mobile Sync Settings crashing WMDC 64bit). Short story with the 32bit installer on my MacBook Pro is this ERROR MESSAGE: <blockqoute>This installation package is not supported by this processor type. Cntact your product vendor.</blockquote> The MacBook is "WinTel" so I can only assume 32bit WMDC does not install on 64bit processor. I guess I'll go without "History" items on the mobile device. Look forward to your next release. Mark

  • Anonymous
    October 11, 2008
    Hi, In your reply to me above, you said  "BCM PPC application will try to sycn with the database currently attached to your Outlook profile on the desktop" but how do I know which db is "attached"??

  • Anonymous
    October 12, 2008
    Hi You can go to Business Contact Manger Menu Item on the desktop,selet Database tool | Manage database.The dialog will show you the name of database your profile is associated with. I hope this helps Thanks Vinit [MSFT]

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2008
    Thanks. That helps. I even figured out how to change the associated database for a profile. Apparently I cannot associate or use more than one database with a single profile, correct? Roberta

  • Anonymous
    October 21, 2008
    Hi Roberta Your Mobile device will try to sycn with the database currently running on your desktop. So, i would not recommend you to do that and keep your Mobile Device associated with just one profile/database. Thanks Vinit [MSFT]

  • Anonymous
    October 23, 2008
    Okay, I've got it now. If I want to run a second database I should do so in a different mail profile so my PDA doesn't mix them up. Thanks! Roberta

  • Anonymous
    October 23, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    October 24, 2008
    Hi I believe you have Windows Device center 6.1 on your machine.Can you uninstall Windows Mobile device center from your add/remove programs and then install from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=83D513EA-9DF9-4920-AF33-3A0E2E4E7BEB&displaylang=en ? let me know if this helps -Vinit [MSFT]

  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    January 16, 2009
    I just bought a laptop that is running Vista 64, and Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager.  Everything was up and running rather well.  I also recently bought an at&t HTC Fuze running windows 6.1  When I sync'd my phone up to the WMDC, I was able to get my Business Contacts on my phone, but I wasn't able to sync them.  Now the Business Contact program is on my phone sans the contacts, and when I go into my Business Contact Manager on my computer, all my contacts are changed, and my business contacts are no longer linked to my accounts.  How can I fix this so my contacts are once again linked to my accouts.  It appears that the format of my Business Contact Manager is changed and I would like for it to go back to the way it was.  How do I do this?

  • Anonymous
    April 16, 2009
    is it possible to search the BCM on my mobile device (SPV E650) as scrolling down over 3000 entries isn't much fun? thanks

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2009
    Is it possible to import Act! 10 data to BCM 2007 ? If not, when do you anticipate this availability ? Is there a beta version of the converter from Act!10 that can be tried out ?

  • Anonymous
    August 10, 2009
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