Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Part V

Access and Windows

SharePoint Services

IN THIS PART

Chapter 32

Understanding Windows

SharePoint Services

Chapter 33

Integrating Access with

SharePoint

Chapter 34

Converting Access Objects to

SharePoint

Chapter 35

Deploying Access Applications

to SharePoint

A

ccess continues to grow as an integral part of enter-

prise data management. Important capabilities have

been added with each new release of Microsoft

Access. Even though Access is not a strong tool for creating

or driving Web sites, Access 2010 includes outstanding

capabilities for publishing Access data and application

objects on Microsoft SharePoint servers.

The most significant of these new capabilities is integration

with Microsoft SharePoint Services. Access 2010 seamlessly

shares data with SharePoint, using SharePoint Lists as linked

tables. This means that your Access 2010 applications can

provide data to users anywhere in the world. SharePoint data

linked to Access databases is completely updatable and can be

displayed on Access forms and reports.

Access 2010 carries integration with SharePoint a step farther.

You’re actually able to push Access objects to SharePoint as

native SharePoint objects. This means that any user with per-

mission to log on to a SharePoint server can work with a

SharePoint-hosted Access application, without a local copy of

Access or Microsoft Office installed on his computer.

The chapters in Part V position SharePoint as an enterprise-

collaborative platform and explain the process of integrating

Access with SharePoint. Starting with simple data sharing,

the chapters in Part V progress to publishing Access applica-

tions on Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) as

native SharePoint applications.

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