You can find details here... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945674 [Zac] For those of you who are wondering, this is the update I've told several folks would be coming. Everyone who is running Access 2003 SP3 will probably want to apply this patch. It includes fixes for the known problems SP2 users had when upgrading to SP3. We intend to eventually roll this out through Windows Update, but for now, the only way to get these fixes is to download and apply this patch on top of 2003 SP3.

The Access team wishes you and yours the best of all holiday seasons.  May you spend it safe and warm with the ones you hold most dear.  Have a great couple weeks; we'll return in the new year.  We've got a ton of stuff going on in Redmond, and 2008 should prove to have some very exciting announcements, so stay tuned...  

Months ago I posted a three part tips and tricks series on Access 2007 on my personal blog . I recently got feedback that the series should be posted on the Access team blog--makes sense as this blog gets about 3 million more hits a month than my personal effort. -------------- I have been working on a three part series of non-obvious tips and tricks for using Access 2007. The other series will be on designing forms and reports and my favorite keyboard shortcuts. I put together a rough draft of this...

Mike Stowe over on the user assistance team put together an interesting analysis of how often various parts of the new Office 2007 help system are used with a drill down on Access in particular. As you might expect, topics for Access, VBA, and Excel are viewed the most... by a lot. Check out the graph:

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At last, the long wait is over, get yours today ! I definitely recommend this upgrade to all 2007 users. The team has done a lot of work to improve performance, security, and stability over the original release, which you can get a hold of by installing the SP. Once you've got it, please let us know what you think!

Our friends in the UK Access User Group always put on a great national Seminar. It looks like the sessions this year were packed with helpful content and insight from developers. I found the following decks interesting: Working with Access 2007 and SharePoint Services presented by Derek Goodridge, WorkerThread Limited Access 2007 Is Great – No It Isn’t – Yes It Is – No It Isn’t presented by Alan Cossey Access 2007 Runtime presented by Ken V Smith Props to Derek for his overview of SharePoint--lots...

One of our Access support leads, Claton Hendricks, has put together a tool he calls Access Ribbon Customizer for Access developers who need to build custom ribbons. This tool is slightly reminiscent of (though not exactly the same as) the built-in command bar customization in Access 2003. It has a visual picker which allows you to see what commands are available and use them to build a ribbon on the fly, cool stuff. Thank you Claton for your contribution to the community! BTW: this is not to be confused...

The Access team is looking for great people to help us turn Access 14 into the best Access release of all time! If you're passionate about Access (and you probably are since you're reading this) and you know you've got what it takes to create world class software that is used daily by millions of people around the globe, then we want to hear from you! This link will show you the current openings on the Access team. Right now we've got four openings, but the link should stay up to date with the most...

Does this sound familiar? Smart Access user builds a cool database to help co-workers do their jobs more efficiently. Co-workers sing praises and advocate a raise for the smart Access hero. A few weeks later, end users ask hero to help create a couple queries and reports to answer more complex business questions. Hero has three choices: Tell them to get lost and lose new-found hero status. Write the query for end users and thus, assume new roll as team Access developer. Teach end users how to fish...