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Access announces removal of Salesforce ODBC driver in October 2025

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Aug 13, 2025

MS Access currently ships a licensed Salesforce ODBC driver from InsightSoftware that will be removed from Access on October 28, 2025. Read on to learn how customers can continue to use their Salesforce data with Access.

MS Access 2019 (and newer) ships a licensed Salesforce ODBC driver from InsightSoftware that will lose sustaining support after June 30th, 2026. But because we can no longer provide updates for the driver, the Access team has decided to accelerate the removal of this driver and remove it from the product in October 2025.

Applies to:

  • Access 2019 volume licensed and Enterprise plans
  • Access 2021, Access 2024, and Microsoft 365 subscriptions
  • Access 2021 and Access 2024 as part of the Office 2021 and Office 2024 perpetual licenses (standalone versions)

The Salesforce ODBC driver bundled with Office includes shared libraries such as:

  • libcurl.dll
  • libcrypto-3.dll
  • libssl-3.dll

These libraries are located under the following path: Program Files\Microsoft Office\ODBC Drivers\Salesforce. They may also be present in different locations. Drivers installed by Office and used to access your Salesforce data will be removed on permanently on October 28, if you are using Access as part of a Microsoft 365 Apps monthly version and on November 11 if you are on the semi-annual release. For customers using perpetual Access 2019, 2021, or 2024, the drivers will be removed on November 11. You do not need to manually remove the drivers.

Access currently doesn't have a way to talk directly to the Salesforce APIs so customers must continue to use the standardized ODBC driver framework that we currently support. Customers can independently purchase the Simba.DLL driver if needed from InsightSoftware. There are also other vendors that offer a Salesforce driver. 

Once you purchase and install the driver, Access can connect to your Salesforce external data source.

  • On the External Data ribbon, choose New Data Source > From Other Sources > ODBC Database

 

We will provide more updates when available.

Updated Sep 04, 2025
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