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Tony Toews |
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Microsoft Access MVP since 1999 |
Want an easy way to distribute updates to the users of your Microsoft®
Access® front end? Tired of visiting users PCs to roll out a new version of an
Access® front end? Weary of explaining to each of the users how to use Windows
Explorer to copy the new FE from the server to their PC; And then fixing
up the mistakes they inevitably make. And how to get the FE to a new user?
This process is exactly what the Auto FE Updater is designed to
do and much more. Whenever you need to roll out updates of your Microsoft Access front end (FE) database file and
associated files the Auto FE Updater utility will automatically copy the files from a server
to a folder on each users PC. When a new user needs to use the application you can email
them a link or navigate them to a network share. It's easy!
See  Access Utilities: Tony's Auto FE Updater for a YouTube video
done by a very happy user of the Auto FE updater who "works with concrete not
computers." The video illustrates how you can be using the Auto FE Updater
within a few minutes.
 The
Auto FE Updater is a drag and drop deployment on the server. No
installation required. Just download, unzip the files and place on the
server. The utility does not require any admin privileges for you to test
the utility or for the users to run the utility.
The Auto FE updater has been recommended by Microsoft -
Automated front-end management and publishing. The utility has
also been recommended by many of my
fellow Access MVPs, many newsgroup and forum posters, various websites and Access books
including
Fixing Access Annoyances by Phil Mitchell and Evan Callahan
I've received emails from folks at Boeing, BMW, Daimler Chrysler,
Starbucks, Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal, a number of hospitals, all branches of the US
Military, the Canadian Armed Forces, the US FDA, the Australian Dept of Health, the
Inspector General's Office of California, Boston Architectural Collage, NASA, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, Staples, University of Washington, IBM, Winnebago, Avon, the IRS,
Bombardier, Starbucks and many more.
Emails have come from many countries around the world such as Canada, USA, Germany,
Ireland, Norway, Australia, Belgium, Spain, the
Netherlands, Scotland, South Africa, France, Israel and New Zealand.
Enterprise Edition
The Enterprise Edition will show you
exactly who is in the backend database so you can contact the users if you need
to add some tables or fields to the database. Or if a compact and repair
is required. You can easily see if any critical Access exe or ACE,
Jet, DAO or ADO DLLs are out of date. Immediate email alerts of any problems
users encounter with
the utility. You will have control over the users as well as logging
every error, warning, activity including files copied that happens during the
execution of the Auto FE Updater program.
Updates
I will be publishing notifications of updates on my
blog.
Or use the Check for Updates menu option within the Auto FE Updater utility.
Or email me on my contact page and I'll email you every time I send out on
update.
News
See my
blog entries regarding the Auto FE Updater
Feedback
I really want some feedback. What additional features do you want to see?
What problems or irritations are you having? Please use my contact page to email me
Or join the
discussion on LinkedIn. Or pickup the phone and call me. Leave a
lengthy voice mail if I'm not available. Sometimes it's easier to
discuss things by phone than write things down in an email.
This page last updated
2011-08-24. |
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