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• Connect your Access 2013 Web Apps to SharePoint Lists

  30 Aug 2012

  This post was written by Lois Wang, a Program Manager on the Access team. Access 2013 web apps are great places to centralize your data. Whether you're tracking people, events, products or something else, storing data in an Access app allows you to easily collaborate with others while keeping things...
• How to save your Access SharePoint password

  26 Jan 2012

  Recently, someone posted a comment on IT Impact Inc.'s blog asking how to get SharePoint to remember his password when he logged in via Access. He wanted to avoid having to log in every time. Ben Clothier, a Senior Access Developer at IT Impact, knew the answer. He wrote a detailed blog post (with plenty...
• Access and SharePoint: a look at integration points from 2003 to 2010

  31 Jul 2011

  For several releases, Access and SharePoint have grown together, providing increasingly more compelling functionality - from fairly simple data sources through to web databases that run in a browser. Ben Clothier at http://accessexperts.net has a two-part review of the evolution of Access working with...
• Access Services and IT pros: Impressions from TechEd 2011

  26 May 2011

  Today's post is contributed by Lois Wang from the Access team. J.R. Arredondo and I had the opportunity to be at TechEd 2011 in Atlanta last week. We had two talks: a small interactive session called ”Empowering information workers with Access,” and a big-room presentation called “Managing...
• Back to the basics: No-code application development with Access

  29 Mar 2011

  Every now and then I have a home project for which I cannot afford (or do not want to deal with) a professional home contractor. Sometimes they are too expensive, or do not think my home project is big enough, or do not want to take the time to understand what I want to do. That is why I really like...
• Evaluating database needs across SQL Server, SQL Azure, SharePoint and Access

  10 Jan 2011

  Every now and then we hear from customers who want some cheat sheet or Excel-based "calculator" to help them decide what technology to base their application on: SQL Server, SharePoint, Access, etc. While in some cases (especially in the extremes) the decision is relatively easy to make, it is very common...
• Going beyond Web Macros: Using Event Receivers & .NET with Access Services

  24 Aug 2010

  Today's guest blogger is Access MVP Ben Clothier. Ben is an independent contractor working with J Street Technology and Advisicon and was Technical Editor for the Access 2010 Programmer's Reference . One challenge in Access Services is ensuring that the logic behind various objects will be portable between...
• The Access Show: Developing Access 2010 Hybrid Apps with Dick Moffat

  20 Jul 2010

  Dick Moffat is a professional Access developer who has been using Access 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 to build databases that run on Windows but live in SharePoint. We have a chat about how you can leverage your existing Access skills and bring your current databases into SharePoint to make sharing...
• Data Platform Improvements in SharePoint 2010

  15 Feb 2010

  Database Relationships, Unique Columns and validation rules make it easy to validate your data. This creates much more maintainable applications and helps users to do the right thing the first time. Some of the feedback we received from blog readers and developers for Access/SharePoint integration was...
• Access 2010: Performance improvements against SharePoint lists

  5 Feb 2010

  Today’s guest writer is DJ Cole from the Access development team. DJ is the architect and primary developer of SharePoint connectivity performance improvements. The Access Show Overview Our goal for Access 2010 was to make connections to SharePoint lists nearly as fast as local tables. We had to ensure...
• Publish to SharePoint (part 1)

  23 Nov 2009

  Today’s guest writer is Ric Lewis—the PM in charge of publishing to SharePoint. A common question in the Access community is “how do I get my app on the web?” Here is the most recent example : My wife and I have just started our own Recruitment business and I started an Access...
• Synchronize with SharePoint under the hood

  26 May 2009

  Recently I was asked the following question: I am looking to get an understanding of the internal operations during an Access 2007 synchronize execution. I have just been exposed to a SharePoint MOSS and Access 2007 environment where at times the normal sync time goes from 7-minutes to around an hour...
• Access Runtime support for SharePoint Offline

  15 Jan 2009

  The last few days I have pinged by several people asking about the SharePoint Offline functionality in the runtime. It seems like more and more people are starting to discover the new SharePoint link table and offline functionality. The short answer is—this isn’t supported. IOW - DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdToggleOffline...
• Network World article - SharePoint taking business by storm

  28 Mar 2008

  There is a good article about SharePoint on Network World. Here are some of the more interesting quotes: "Microsoft's SharePoint Server is on a billion dollar juggernaut to potentially become the next must-have technology, offering companies tools for building everything from collaborative applications...
• Interesting article on SharePoint adoption

  12 Jan 2008

  There is an interesting article on cmswire about SharePoint adoption and applications. Choice quotes include: "The number of organizations that employ SharePoint for mission-critical applications is less than 20 percent, a figure expected to double over the next year. Meanwhile, the number of SharePoint...
• Access 2007 tips and tricks from the team

  18 Dec 2007

  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...
• Interesting presentations about Access 2007

  11 Dec 2007

  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...
• Integrating Access Contacts with SharePoint and Outlook

  28 Aug 2007

  There was a question on our post about getting Access to recognize tables as specific WSS table templates around what else you need to do to get the new Add From Outlook feature to work on a custom contacts table. This feature uses the same mechanism to determine that a table is a contact table, but...
• Set SharePoint List Template for Access Table

  16 Aug 2007

  There was an interesting question in one of the other posts that I thought I'd answer here to reach the broader audience: Doug said : If I export Northwind 2007 to WSS 3.0, the tables, like Customer, that contain 'Contact' type information get exported to an WSS 'Contact' content type. Very cool! Now...
• SharePoint Apps Offline and Intro to SharePoint Designer

  13 Oct 2006

  In the last post, I described how you can publish an Access database to SharePoint. This time, we'll look at taking that database back offline, making data changes while disconnected, and re-synching. I'll also briefly discuss updating the thin client version of the application using SharePoint Designer...