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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In the last post, I gave a quick overview of SharePoint, SharePoint lists, and how Access works on SharePoint. In this version, I'll show what happens when you move an Access database to SharePoint. Publish to SharePoint Access has had a feature to "Upsize
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Up to this point, I've discussed building traditional Access client-side databases and run through some of the new tools and techniques that are available. This represents a very important part of the work done in Access 2007, but it is only one part.
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Way back in October, I posted an overview of Access. We've finally got a complete customer-ready overview for the product that will be going up on the Access site at http://www.microsoft.com/access . If you'd like a printable version of this paper, it
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One of the most basic tasks in Access is creating somewhere to put data - designing schema. My goal for today was to run through the basic schema creation tools, and to leave the new "complex data" schema creation for next time, but in looking at the
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Access 12 and Windows SharePoint Services v.3 will enable out of the box “tracking applications” that can span the client and server or can run standalone on the client. A “tracking app” is a small data application that adds database functionality to
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There has been a series of questions on the Access blog and in the newsgroups about Access’s future as a tool for developers. Although it is WAY too early to nail down what we will do in the future, I can share a bit about how we think of Access going
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