RUN APPLICATIONS FROM ACCESS

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Hi All, and a merry Xmas to you all.
I am using Office Developer 2002 to prepare a database for my local church.
After I have installed the program on the church PC, the church
administrators will not want anyone who is not authorised to use the database
program to open any office application (like Word or Excel) on the PC. This
is to prevent the PC from being used for all sorts of things that may disturb
good intentions of the administrators. So I want to remove whatever Office
Application is on the church PC right now, and include them with Access in
the packaging process.
Is this a wise idea? If it is, how should I go about it?
 
AFAIK, it's not possible. All you can do with the Package and Deployment
Wizard is include the Access Runtime with the application. Even if it could
be done, I don't think it's a particularly good idea, nor do I think it's
necessary. You should be able to control who can use the Office products by
excluding them from everyone's profile except whoever's legitimate, and
using passwords.
 
To add to Doug's comments: All they need to do is build a strong password,
or better yet, a passphrase to get into Windows before it starts. If you
also set up a passphrase on the screen saver, you should have the machine
protected against anything but theft.

A passphrase is any phrase longer than 15 characters, like:

I once lived @ 324 Elm St

The above has 25 characters, including spaces,caps, lower case, numbers and
a special character. It would take months to crack unless social engineering
allowed someone to guess it easily, and yet it is easy to remember.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
 
Glint,

You might consider running a Windows script to set the appropriate policy
for the computer. I have no idea how to do it, but I know it can be done.
You could try asking in one of the Windows newsgroups.

Regards,
Graham R Seach
Microsoft Access MVP
Canberra, Australia
 
Thanx for your advice.
--
Glint


Graham R Seach said:
Glint,

You might consider running a Windows script to set the appropriate policy
for the computer. I have no idea how to do it, but I know it can be done.
You could try asking in one of the Windows newsgroups.

Regards,
Graham R Seach
Microsoft Access MVP
Canberra, Australia
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