I have had problems running Small Business Accounting 2006 on Vista and created a support case with Microsoft. The response was that SBA 2006 is not supported. I needed to use Office Accounting 2007 Express or Professional which can be downloaded at the following links (http://oaisbetter.com or http://www.ideawins.com). I chose to upgrade to Office Accounting Professional 2007.
Unfortunately I ran into a problem trying to install SQL Server Express, even though I already had SQL Server 2005 installed and working with SP2 CTP2 (required for Vista). After backing up my SBA and Outlook Business Contact Manager (BCM) data, disconnecting BCM from the accounting database, uninstalling SBA 2006 and SQL Server, the install still failed with a "SQL Server Setup Failed to compile the Managed Object Format (MOF)" error. After hours of searching, I found this post on TechNet, what a life saver. Who knew that a corrupted WMI repository would affect the installation...Thank you Jin Feng.
I was able to easily restore and upgrade from my data backups. Office Accounting 2007 provides a feature to integrate the Business Contact Manager database into one (very nice). I have done that and I am sharing my Business Contact Manager data with my XP Tablet laptop. The sharing feature is very easy to setup and provides excellent instructions. You have the option to replicate the data for off line use which is great.
After a harrowing day and half, I am back up and running better than ever.
Office 2007 - Business Contact Manager 2007 for Outlook 2007
Business Contact Manager 2007 (BCM) was finally released on the MSDN subscriber download site this week. As a consultant I have been missing it for the last 3 or so weeks after the release of Office 2007 which did not include of BCM. The only issue I had with the installation was that I needed to un-install the Office Small Business Connectivity components.
An error message with a good explanation. I am assuming these components were installed with Office Small Business Accounting 2006 (SBA). As a consultant BCM provides great integration with SBA to track your billable time which then feeds into the creation of invoices. You can use this feature with calendar appointments. BCM also allows you to create projects and associated tasks which can feed into SBA's time entry feature. The integration is excellent for any small business interested in keeping track of employee time against both billable and non-billable projects and tasks.
BCM adds additional buttons (circled in red) to manage time from Outlook 2007.
Posted by sskarlatos on December 15, 2006 at 08:57 AM in Commentary, MS Small Business Accounting, Office 12, Office 2007, software, Windows XP | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
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