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How can I make sure the user has the most up to date front end ?

multi-user ACCESS environment

How can I make sure the user has the most up to date front end ?

by  Chance1234  Posted    (Edited  )

create a batch file with the follwing


COPY \\serverwherefrontendexits\dbyouwanttocopy.mdb C:\whereyouwantthedbtobeonusermachines\dbyouwanttocopy.mdb
START "MSAccess.exe" C:\C:\whereyouwantthedbtobeonusermachines\dbyouwanttocopy.mdb
EXIT

Place a shortcut to the batch file on the user machines, when they click, this will copy the front end from the server to there machine and start the database.

This is a quick and dirty method ok for a small enviroment say 8 - 10 users. Anymore and you might run into problems in regards to network traffic
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