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I expect there are a number of folks that would love take Access Services for a spin and give us feedback. It is possible to create a dev install of SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 on Vista x64 or Windows x64. This is only intended for developers to develop custom solutions and isn’t a supported live scenarios.
The document should list in step 2 to install Reporting Services and here is the download. There was a glitch publishing the RS MSI where some users were getting a 1 byte file—that has been fixed.
There are plans next year to provide a hosted service through SharePoint Online that should make the barriers to entry much lower than it is today. I will get into that in more detail later but in the mean time—please install and give us your feedback.
Enjoy!
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Our data is confidential and cannot be stored through SharePoint Online.
Our customers' data is confidential too and cannot be stored through SharePoint. But our customers need to call various (legislatively based) web services which, again, are not SharePoint. Ie. SharePoint is of no use for thousands of our customers.
P.S. We need support for standard web services.
We also use Access only for standalone Applications.
With connected Tables and Views on Oracle and SQL Server. No need for Sharepoint. Its only a feater fore rare cases. We need improvements for standalone Applications.
Why the drive to sharepoint? why can't you just provide some decent, lightweight support for small apps to shine through on web pages? couldn't wait to see access 2010 with the web and you hold back the sharepoint caveat, thanks for nothing.
Roger Jennings tried to install it. Here is a post re his experience "SharePoint Nightmare: Installing the SPS 2010 Public Beta on Windows 7": oakleafblog.blogspot.com/.../sharepoint-nightmare-installing-sps.html His conclusion: "There are so many inconsistencies and outright errors in the SharePoint 2010 beta setup instructions that many potential testers will abandon their attempt to test Access’s new Web Database Features." Be warned, it sounds more than usual like problematic software to install on anything like a production box.
I am dying to do a web test but do not have access to Sharepoint. Would of course rather not have to be tied to Sharepoint but if Microsoft does that, being able to test and demo with Sharepoint Online is imperative to this capability being at all useful. After seeing Roger Jennings experience, though, I'm thinking I should wait a bit till these issues are ironed out.
There are updated instructions for installing SharePoint 2010 beta under a Windows 7 VM guest OS running on a Windows 2008 R2 host OS in "Installing SharePoint 2010 Public Beta on a Hyper-V Windows 7 VM Causes Numerous Critical and Error Events" (oakleafblog.blogspot.com/.../installing-sharepoint-2010-public-beta.html). Despite the numerous events issue, a simple Web Database published nicely for me. --rj
@Data Entry Service: One of the selling points for SharePoint online is avoiding the need to install the monster. --rj
When is Microsoft Online services going to begin offering sharepoint 2010 with Access services? Will they offer a more inexpensive offer than the current minimum 5 users at $25.00 per month? I want something I can use with one user - me - to test and demonstrate to customers. If they want the system, they would license it separately. Bob
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