The Access Show: How the Microsoft Legal Department uses Access 2010 web databases

Meet Malori! Malori is a paralegal in Microsoft's legal department. She manages patent applications and assigns them out to attorneys and portfolio managers as well as other paralegals. Malori was looking for a way to make her team more efficient by presenting all of the information they needed in a single web page or application. Our team jumped in and made an Access Services solution, which allows her to manage all the data and provide custom views to her teammates. Today this web database is used by over 80 attorneys working on different cases at Microsoft.

In today’s episode, Malori shares her experience with Access Services and how it has helped her team be more efficient.

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  • Access is getting more and more marvelous as time progresses...

  • Thank you Clint and other Access team members. I am very pleased with Access 2010. Now I am confident that I can develop many more Access applications for resource conservation field in years to come.

  • Seems pretty cool. I am looking for a rapid application development (RAD TOOL) tool for the web. My next question is this. How can we go about developing something similar to this. Do you need access on the client computers or some other software? How do the clients login and authenticate with the database? Can we host the database in the cloud (using Azure)? Can we place the database on one server and the UI on another server? Thanks,

    Doug Lubey of Louisiana

  • Looks cool. Only 80 lawyers?! Somehow I thought there would be more! ;)

  • release the database publicly! obviously without all the tables poplated with legal data...

  • Looks great. How is the security handled? Where is the login handled? At the Access or Sharepoint level?

  • David @ Security and login is handled through SharePoint.

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