Doug Murphy
dw-murphy at cox.net
Thu Aug 9 19:14:42 CDT 2007
My concern when distributing a product to customers with unknown computer configurations, software installations, Office versions, etc is that I won't screw up their systems. I have a test set up with different versions of windows and different installations of Office that I run our installations through to try and insure we don't have any conflicts or worse yet creat a problem for the client. This is also why we spent the $ to buy the Sagekey scripts and then update them when MS came out with Vista and Office 2007. I think you were attending the Users group when one of the members created an install that overwrote some main windows dlls mistakenly. Made the package available for download and screwed up a bunch of computers. Cost him lots of $. My response was to your statement that you might dodge the bullet. I am pretty conservative when distributing applications. Doug -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 4:56 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 run time on same machine with 2003 "a lot of testing before installing 2007 on a bunch" Do you mean installing 2007 runtimes? Rocky -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Murphy Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:41 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 run time on same machine with 2003 Rocky, This is an excerpt from the alert that Sagekey sent out. --------------------------------- In January 2007 Microsoft released Vista and Access 2007. Both products are significantly different from Microsoft's previously released versions and this is going to affect how successful your current Access Runtime installations are with these products. How much Vista will affect your Access Runtime installation will depend upon the complexity of your application. Access 2007 on the other hand won't co-exist well with previous runtimes, triggering an MSI repair that can take up to 5 minutes to complete, followed by a forced reboot. ------------------------------------ It indicates that there are issues with older runtimes and 2007 so I wouldn't be surprised if the 2007 runtime didn't interact with older versions. I'd do some research on what to expect, or a lot of testing before installing 2007 on a bunch of customers computers. Doug -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 1:40 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 run time on same machine with 2003 Well, maybe I'll dodge that bullet. Because the client wants to send an A2007 run-time and is worried about users who have A2003 installed and installing the A2007 run-time might hose their 2003 apps. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Murphy Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 12:11 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 run time on same machine with 2003 There are some issues as I recollect. I know we had to purchase a modified Access 2002 runtime install script to make our runtime coexist with Access 2007. Take a look at the Sagekey software knowledge base. Doug -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:46 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: [AccessD] Access 2007 run time on same machine with 2003 Dear List: Does anyone know of any problems running an A2K7 run-time on the same machine where A2K3 is installed? MTIA Rocky -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com No virus found in this incoming message. 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