Can't connect to the database?

This article from Microsoft support has oodles of info on diagnosing connection issues: How to troubleshoot a shared database in Outlook with Business Contact Manager Update.

Rahul Thomas Blogs

Good BCM info on this Microsoft blog:

How to enable Logging in BCM

How to create a "New Business Contact from the Same Company"

Send a letter to a contact

The canonical way to write a letter to an Outlook or BCM Contact is to go to Word, start the letter, and then pick the contact from an address book inside Word. More people work in an Outlook, instead of Word, centric world, and want to start the letter from the Contact, and not work backwards. Here's how to do that: Add Outlook Toolbar Buttons to send Letters and E-mail to Business Contacts

Chapura PocketMirror

Chapura PocketMirror claims to let you control which Outlook folders to sync with your device. What a concept! It's 2009, why doesn't ActiveSync let you pick what to sync?

Can't get rid of Outlook reminders?

Try running Outlook with a /cleanreminders parameter once.

Outlook command-line switches