Error message when you launch an e-mail marketing campaign in Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager: "Too many parameters were provided in this RPC request"

You launch an e-mail marketing campaign in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager. The campaign launches as expected. However, you receive the following error message: Additionally, you may receive the following error message:

This problem occurs if the following conditions are true:

• Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager tries to save the e-mail marketing campaign after the campaign has been launched.
• The campaign contains more than 1,000 recipients.

Note E-mail marketing campaigns have the campaign type selected, and they have one of the following delivery methods selected:

• Outlook
• Word E-mail Merge
• Publisher E-mail Merge
• E-mail Marketing Service

After the campaign has been launched, Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager tries to save the marketing campaign. This causes the error message. The marketing campaign has been successfully launched. However, you will be unable to track responses to the campaign because you cannot save the campaign after you receive the error message. The recipients will not have the marketing campaign in their communication histories.

If you have already started the campaign, there is no workaround. You must exit the campaign without saving. To close the campaign without saving, do one of the following:

• Click Close.
• On the marketing campaign form, click Delete in the Actions group.

To work around this problem, create a new marketing campaign. Then, filter the recipients so that the Total in list box contains fewer than 1,000 recipients. To do this, follow these steps.

Note After you complete these steps, you will have several marketing campaigns that you can use to track responses.

1. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Marketing Campaign.
2. Select the recipients under Who will see it on the Campaign tab.
3. If the total number of recipients in the Total in list box exceeds 1,000 recipients, reduce the number of recipients that will receive the e-mail marketing campaign. To do this, follow these steps:
   1. Click Review and Filter.
   2. Click the Simple Filter tab.
   3. Under Include, click to select the Leads check box, click to clear the Business contacts check box, and then click OK.
4. If the Total in list box is still more than 1,000 recipients, you must reduce the number of recipients more. To do this, follow these steps:
   1. Click Review and Filter.
   2. Select another attribute, such as State or Active, on which to filter.
      
      Note You can also select the Review Results tab. On the Review Results tab, click to clear the various check boxes to bring the total number of recipients to fewer than 1,000.
5. Launch the e-mail marketing campaign as you usually do.
6. Repeat steps 1 to 3 to create another e-mail marketing campaign. Click to select the Business Contacts check box under Include, click to clear the Leads check box, and then click OK.
7. If the Total in list box is more than 1,000 recipients, reduce the number of recipients. To do this, follow these steps:
   1. Click Review and Filter.
   2. Select another attribute, such as State or Active, on which to filter.
      
      Note You can also select the Review Results tab. On the Review Results tab, click to clear the various check boxes to bring the total number of recipients to fewer than 1,000.
8. Launch the e-mail marketing campaign as you usually do.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.