[AccessD] Observations of my short life with Windows 7 & Access .MDE

Jim,
 If you are migrating to the 2007 container you may not have as many
problems as I'm having. (at least that is what I'm hoping). I have decided,
to put the work in and migrate to the 2007 container. Which for me involves
a VERY complex user authentication system build around Access workgroups.
It, of course also means having to convert an equally complex menu system
over to the "Ribbon"...  I'm guessing it's going to take me at least 6
months to work this migration out.... :-(


I just hope, after it's done, my program is more stable in the Access 2007
container. If it isn't I'm going to........................ ;-)


WBR
Robert




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:49 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Observations of my short life with Windows 7 & Access
.MDE

Hi Robert:

I am in the process of upgrading a very large and complex Access application
from 2002/2003 into Access2007, on a group of new Windows7 platforms so I
read and reread your adventure with great interest... and with some degree
of horror.

I might try to restrict or at least slow the drive towards Windows7 so if
the worse comes to the worse at least their office is not completely down.

On the client's site, if that was not enough they have moved there server
system to SBS2007 and all the desktops have been re-directed off the server.
I have not been able to find a directory similar to XPs default user
directory. This is causing some strange issues in which a user can have
their desktop running on a number of computers; sort of like the old roaming
profiles but more... I was upgrading an application on one system but found
it was failing and leaving strange ghosts. It turned out that a user had
logged into the same desktop I was using for testing some where else in the
building...

I do believe there is enough horse-power or memory to fix these problems but
we shall see.

Jim

PS Access2007 and Access2003 do not play nice together on the same box...
watch out for those references...