Monthly Archives: September 2010

How to Create a Web Database from Excel

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Mike

Lately we have gotten a lot of questions about how businesses can take their old access databases or excel spreadsheets and get them on the web with Access Hosting. The tutorial video above will hopefully demonstrate some of the issues … Continue reading →

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5 Reasons why Microsoft Access Schools Quickbase

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Mike

Back in 1999, Intuit launched Quickbase – a web-based collaborative database application that allows business people to create their own custom applications without writing code. The application is hosted by Intuit and sold by subscription.  At the time, Quickbase had quite … Continue reading →

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Access 2010 Web Databases: End User Tutorial Channel

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Mike

Here is an easy to bookmark page with all of our Access Web Database Tutorials. These screencasts are produced in house in response to the frequently asked questions that come into our support line.

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All servers patched with Access Services 2010 August Hotfixes

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Mike

Now that Access Services and SharePoint 2010 have been out for a few months, Microsoft has released a collection of hotfixes to address a variety of small problems. Our policy is to install these fixes as they become available and … Continue reading →

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How to Delete Your Published Access Web Database from SharePoint 2010

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Mike

This short video will walk you through the steps necessary to remove a published database from SharePoint 2010. This process should be used with caution as the database, when removed completely, is no longer recoverable from the recycle bin.

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Where to download an evaluation copy of Access 2010

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Mike

If you need an evaluation copy of Access 2010 to test alongside our Access Hosting service you can find it here.  Remember that Access 2010 is only included in the Office Professional 2010 Suite, NOT the Office Home or Office Student editions of … Continue reading →

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Demystifying the Access 2010 runtime client

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Mike

The introduction of web based forms and reports in Access 2010 is a huge step forward for the product, but there are many scenarios which dictate that an application be developed natively in Access 2010. Fortunately, the Access 2010 runtime … Continue reading →

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Distribute Your Access 2010 Web Application with an ACCDW file

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Mike

This short video will show you how to distribute your Access 2010 Web Application to other Access users by creating and ACCDW link. The ACCDW file is a small shortcut file that allows users to connect to your web database … Continue reading →

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Create an Access 2010 Table Using Copy/Paste

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Mike

One quick and easy way to create a new table in your Access Web Database is to use the clipboard and copy/paste from Excel or any other tabular data source.

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Delivering Email from Your Access 2010 Web Application

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Mike

We recently published a short video tutorial on using data macros to trigger an email alert in Access 2010 (see below).  Since this behavior assumes that you are running on SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition and relying on SharePoint for email … Continue reading →

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Access 2003 to 2010 Migration Guide Now Available

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Mike

Microsoft has just released an excellent migration guide to help re-orient Access 2003 users with the updated toolbars, menu structure, and concepts behind Access 2010. This concise (8 page) document serves as a great jumping off  point for established Access users … Continue reading →

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How much SharePoint 2010 storage will my Access application consume ?

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Mike

We recently had a customer using our Developer Sandbox hosting plan run out of storage space as they published a web application to SharePoint. Further investigation of this problem uncovered a very interesting dilemma for Access Services developers: The size … Continue reading →

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