Moving Away from MS Access
The organization I work for is wanting to move away from Microsoft Access databases where possible, and we have started exploring what tools our current Access databases could be moved to. Is there a standard for what works best (Powerapps, Sharepoint, etc)? What have you found to be a good resource for guidance on this topic? Thanks!Microsoft Office 2019 Now Available – Comparing 2019 vs 2016 vs 365, New Features in Access & Excel
Microsoft Office 2019 is out! Microsoft started the roll-out today of Microsoft Office 2019 for Windows & Mac – with major updates to Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, and Publisher – to commercial volume license customers. Microsoft is following up with Office 2019 releases to consumers and other business customers, as well as SharePoint / Exchange / Skype / Project Server 2019 releases, in the coming weeks. Office 2019 provides a subset of features Microsoft has added to Office 365 over the past three years. As Office 2019 is a one-time release, Office 365 is still the better choice with not only far more features (Co-Authoring, etc) unavailable in Office 2019, but also far earlier access to them than on-premises, non-subscription Office 2019, etc. editions. Speculation has been that Office 2019 may be the last perpetual license (on-premises / non-subscription) release of Office, so that Microsoft can focus in on its Office 365 subscription offerings. However, Microsoft has responded in one case that there is likely to be one more perpetual license release after this one. Either way, Microsoft Office 2019 product pages even describe Office 2019 as a "one-time release" with Office 365 being needed to gain access to new features after that. It may also be that there are fewer editions available for Office 2019 than for Office 2016. Whether you move to Office 2019 or 365, it's suggested you don't delay doing so, as Office 2016 cloud support will be dropped in 2020, with Office 2016 installs barred from connecting to Microsoft's cloud-based services, including hosted email (Exchange) and online storage (OneDrive for Business), after Oct. 13, 2020. New in Office 2019 Word– text-to-speech, improved inking & accessibility, focus mode, translator, Learning tools (captions & audio descriptions), @ Mentions PowerPoint – Morph transitions, Zoom, SVG, 3D model, play in-click sequence, 4k video, @ Mentions Excel – Power Query (Get & Transform) enhancements, Power Pivot included with all editions, new functions & connectors, publish to Power BI, AI-driven Excel Insights for chart suggestions, new charts, @ Mentions Excludes Co-Authoring, new Data Types like Stocks, and some other new features only available in Office 365 Outlook –@ Mentions, Office 365 Groups OneNote – OneNote for Windows 10 (Modern App included with Windows) has replaced OneNote desktop app (though OneNote 2016 will be available via Volume License Install tool) All Office apps – Ribbon customizations and roaming pencil case Microsoft Access - including the many updates we've seen recently such as: Modern Charts New Linked Table Manager Dark theme Big Int Salesforce & Dynamics connectors Other Recent Developments with Microsoft Access It's especially exciting to see all the new features, growing user base and communities, new integrations, and development team responsiveness seen with Microsoft Access of late. Inclusion on the Office templates page Which I hope will become permanent soon SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) updates ODBC and OLE DB driver updates – for optimized use and new feature support for SQL Server, Azure SQL and other back-ends databases Power BI support (via On-Premises Data Gateway) Considering On-Premises Data Gateway is shared with PowerApps, hopefully that means we may see PowerApps support too in the future New & growing Access conferences and user communities: New Access Developers' Day in Amsterdam DevCon in Vienna, AEK in Germany, UKAUG in UK, PAUG in Portland, Access Day in Redmond, Access Madrid in Spain Presence at Microsoft Ignite and other conferences Access User Groups (AUG) webinars and local chapters (Chicago, Denver, Madrid, Hertfordshire, etc.) Access now included in most Office editions Included in nearly all (besides Online-only) editions Access in Office 365 Home, Personal, Business, Business Premium, ProPlus, E3, and E5 editions Access in Office 2016 Professional and ProPlus editions With MS Access having been added to most Office editions, presumably it will likewise be available with most Office 2019 editions now too. It's great to see these features available to Office 365 subscribers (or even sooner if opt-in for Insiders program) now being made available to others with Office 2019, and I look forward to the many more new advancements with Microsoft Access and Office to come. Links to More Info about Office 2019 You can find out more about Office 2019 with the following articles, FAQs and product pages: Office 365 vs. 2019 Editions Office 2019 Commercial FAQ Microsoft's Office 2019 Announcement Office 2019 and Discontinuing of Office 2016 The Verge release article ZDNet release article Endgadget release article VentureBeat release article TechSpot release article -- Dan Moorehead Founder & Chief Software Architect PowerAccess (www.PowerAccess.net) "Empower Microsoft Access – with new Tools | VBA Framework | PowerGit | Power Query-like PowerSQL | VSTO-like .NET API | CodeGen | Excel Formulas & Functions | Consulting | Excel ➜ Access ➜ SQL Conversion Tools"
Project Management Access Fix?
Hi I have just begun using the template by Microsoft access that is for project management. I have posted below a screen shot of what I'm encountering. My access is showing a completed job under my project task tab. I only want this to show jobs that are active. Is there a way to fix this or filter it?
Link a table from MS Fabric
Is it possible to link a table stored in MS Fabric Dataflow Gen2 to an Access database? The data set is roughly 500k rows of data. FYI I'm not trying to link Fabric FROM an Access database. Rather I would like to work with the data in MS Access. Any help would be appreciated.OT The increasing SPAM in this forum
Hi, There have been a lot of "low profile" spam posts here in the last few days. They look like relatively sensible replies, i.e. they mention content from the thread question, but there is nothing really helpful in them and they always contain one or more links in the text. These links have misleading captions and lead to some sales platforms. Based on this design, I suspect automated spamming with the help of AI. In the menu that you can open with the 3 dots in the upper right corner of every message, I noticed a new (last) entry Mark as Spam a few days ago. With this I have meanwhile marked about 10 such spam messages here, whereupon they disappeared from the feed. But I can't delete or block the account of the sender of the filth. So it is only a partial success. I guess that I see the menu item because I am MVP. But maybe others see it as well. Can anyone confirm or falsify this? Here's what I want to point out to you with this post: 1. As a reader, be careful of links from unknown people here. Before you click on links, hold your mouse over the link and let the browser show you the destination address. So far, I've always been able to easily identify the sales links this way. 2. If you as MVPs or other participants here see the menu item Mark as Spam, please use it to help rid this forum of spam. 3. If you notice such filthy posts and you don't have the menu item, please inform us with a reply in this thread. Then removing the spam might go faster, because I assume the admins of the Technet forums have a lot to do with such automated spam posts in the many forums here.. Servus Karl **************** Access Forever Access News Access DevCon Access-Entwickler-Konferenz AEK
Steps To Decompile Your MS Access-Database
"Steps To Decompile Your MS Access-Database 1)On a Windows system go to Start and type ‘msaccess.exe /decompile ‘in the Run command line. Here msaccess.exe includes the complete path of the Access Database. 2)Now go to Access and open the database you want to decompile. 3)Open any module as per your requirement and compile it through Debug, Compile.., and then File, Save...." My question: It´s about ACCESS 2013. Everyone is mention the Debug in Tool menu. There is no Debug option under Tools in our MS Access 2013 Database: Please see screenshot (Swedish version) Here´s the english translate the sceenshot. -References -Macro -Properties for DB -Digtial sinature As you can see, no DEBUG in the below screenshot. Really appreciate your answer
