> VERY DISAPPOINTED AT THE DISTINCT LACK OF RESPONSE.  STARTING TO WISH I HAD
> NOT PAID SO MUCH FOR THE SOFTWARE.  I PRESUME THAT THIS IS A KNOWN FAULT AND
> NOBODY AT MICROSOFT WANTS TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE?
>
> "Hoser" wrote:

>> A problem with BCM started to occur on my computer recently.  When starting
>> outlook I received an error message “BCM for Outlook could not connect to the
>> shared database. Do you want to work offline?”
>> I tried to uninstall and repair BCM with Disk 2 but now it fails to install
>> and gives the following error message “Setup failed to install Business
>> Contact Manager for Outlook 2007. See C:\Documents and
>> settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\MBSetuptmpA3.log for more detail.”
>> I have worked through the help at
>>http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP011128601033.aspxand appear to
>> have a problem with the SQL server

>

>> When Trying To Start Sql server (Mssmlbiz) Through Computer Management I get
>> the following error:
>> “Windows could not start the SQL Server (MSSMLBIZ) on Local Computer. For ...

> VERY DISAPPOINTED AT THE DISTINCT LACK OF RESPONSE.  STARTING TO WISH I HAD
> NOT PAID SO MUCH FOR THE SOFTWARE.  I PRESUME THAT THIS IS A KNOWN FAULT AND
> NOBODY AT MICROSOFT WANTS TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE?
>
>
>
> "Hoser" wrote:

>> A problem with BCM started to occur on my computer recently.  When starting
>> outlook I received an error message “BCM for Outlook could not connect to the
>> shared database. Do you want to work offline?”
>> I tried to uninstall and repair BCM with Disk 2 but now it fails to install
>> and gives the following error message “Setup failed to install Business
>> Contact Manager for Outlook 2007. See C:\Documents and
>> settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\MBSetuptmpA3.log for more detail.”
>> I have worked through the help at
>>http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP011128601033.aspxand appear to
>> have a problem with the SQL server

>

>> When Trying To Start Sql server (Mssmlbiz) Through Computer Management I get ...

> I have exactly the same problem.
> After installing XP SP3 yesterday the SQL server service for BCM 2007
> will no longer start.
> Tried to do a repair BCM from the original CD's but it failed.
>
> Even worse, backup is not possible when the SQL server is not running.
> Of course I can backup the data files (.ldf and .mdf), but my
> experience is they are useless. BCM is very restrictive and it is very
> difficult to make it accept files from another installation.
>
> Actually there was problems installing XP SP3 (stopped with "Access
> denied") and therefore I had to run a special script made by microsoft
> to modify some user rights in the registry and windows system files
> (seehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/949377). After that XP SP3
> installed without problems. Unfortunately BCM stopped working instead.
>
> Hoser, did you find a solution to the problem? - or anyone else with
> ideas what to do?
> ...

> My guess is that SP3 changes some permissions and the account thatSQL
> was running with can no longer access some files so it shutdown. There
> are probably messages in the Windows event logs about the error. Ifnot, its possible that thesqlservice's login doesn't even
> have permission to start the service.
> You could try setting thesqlservice for thebcminstance (something
> like MSSMLBIZ) to the administrator account, and see if itrunwith
> that.