Auto Deploying New Version of Access Application

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Robert Ross

Depending on how paranoid your company's IT department is
in reference to running applications or installing
software, here is another work around:

In your database properties under the Custom tab, add a
value named VersionNumber and VersionDate. Populate these
with new values with each new Front End you create. Then
create a table in the Back End that contains the correct
current VersionNumber and VersionDate. In your autoexec
macro, have it evaluate the current
VersionNumber/VersionDate values against what is on the
Back End table. From there you can launch a batch file or
other process to copy the newest version from the network
onto each user's system.

The advantage of doing it this way is you have no extra
software to install/maintain, and each user's desktop will
check itself every time it starts, and automatically
upgrade itself when a new version is released.
 

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