Users Do not have Access 2003 on their laptops

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Rich Pearson via AccessMonster.com

My users only have Access 97 on their machines. Is there a way that I can
install Access 2003 on the network and users can use it without having Access
2003 on their machines?

Also, is Access 2003 compatible with win98 ?

Thanks,
Rich
 
First question, you could use Terminal Server, but although in that
situation users would not have to have Access 2003 physically installed, my
understanding is that each user would need an Access 2003 licence.

Second question, no, Office 2003 requires Windows 2000 or later.

With the Access Developer Extensions you can distribute a runtime version of
Access (Access with design features disabled) to enable users who do not
have retail Access installed to run your applications, but you still need
Windows 2000 or later.
 
You can run a 15 year old version of ms-access on a brand new pc.

However, I can't run ms-access on a 1981 pc, since that pc likely does not
even have a mouse!! On the other hand, you will find it AMAZING that you can
run 1981 software on a BRAND NEW box today!!

So, the rule for more then 20+ years in our industry is that you can usually
go forward, but not backwards.
Also, is Access 2003 compatible with win98 ?
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No, office 2002 (or what is know as office XP was the LAST version that runs
on windows 9x).
Is there a way that I can
install Access 2003 on the network and users can use it without having
Access
2003 on their machines?
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Yes, you can do the above. First, please read the following on splitting a
database. It is a simple concept, and if you adopt this concept, then you
access 97 users, and access 2003 users can use the SAME DATA!!

So, read the following first:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal/Articles/split/index.htm

Ok, so what you do is now provide a front end in access 97 to those
people/computers with access 97. For those users that have access 2003, then
you provide a access 2003 front end. Then, as time goes by, and those a97
users upgrade, you simply upgrade them to access 2003 front ends.

The back end that you link to must however remain in access97 format until
such time as all users have upgraded.

And, if the users machines have windows xp on them, then you could consider
using the ms-access runtime system, as then they don't necessary have to
have access installed.
 
Read the EULA for Office and ACCESS... I don't think the EULA permits you to
install one copy on a network and let multiple users use that one copy.

ACCESS 2003 will not run on Windows 98. Must be Windows 2000 or "higher"
version.
 
What if I took Access 2003 out of the equation and used Access97 as the
backend and created a Web user interface? The user doesn't want to upgrade
at this time.

Thanks,
Rich

Brendan said:
First question, you could use Terminal Server, but although in that
situation users would not have to have Access 2003 physically installed, my
understanding is that each user would need an Access 2003 licence.

Second question, no, Office 2003 requires Windows 2000 or later.

With the Access Developer Extensions you can distribute a runtime version of
Access (Access with design features disabled) to enable users who do not
have retail Access installed to run your applications, but you still need
Windows 2000 or later.
My users only have Access 97 on their machines. Is there a way that I can
install Access 2003 on the network and users can use it without having
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Thanks,
Rich
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If you use server-side technologies, such as ASP or ASP.NET, nothing is
required on the client PC except a browser. The downside is that developing
these applications costs a lot more and takes a lot longer than developing
Access applications.

--
Brendan Reynolds

Rich Pearson via AccessMonster.com said:
What if I took Access 2003 out of the equation and used Access97 as the
backend and created a Web user interface? The user doesn't want to
upgrade
at this time.

Thanks,
Rich

Brendan said:
First question, you could use Terminal Server, but although in that
situation users would not have to have Access 2003 physically installed,
my
understanding is that each user would need an Access 2003 licence.

Second question, no, Office 2003 requires Windows 2000 or later.

With the Access Developer Extensions you can distribute a runtime version
of
Access (Access with design features disabled) to enable users who do not
have retail Access installed to run your applications, but you still need
Windows 2000 or later.
My users only have Access 97 on their machines. Is there a way that I
can
install Access 2003 on the network and users can use it without having
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Thanks,
Rich
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