Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Chapter 32: Understanding Windows SharePoint Services

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Summary

SharePoint Services are a major advance for Access developers. Microsoft is very clearly committed

to SharePoint, and the ability to integrate Access and SharePoint data will only increase over time.

SharePoint provides a flexible, secure, efficient, Web-accessible data repository, and provides secu-

rity, versioning, and other valuable features to organizations and workgroups.

SharePoint integration is just one more example of Microsoft’s commitment to enhancing Access’s

ability to integrate with diverse data sources. Although the other Microsoft Office applications also

integrate with SharePoint, it’s a sure bet that Access will take a dominant role when working with

SharePoint. With its ability to provide the users with powerful forms and informative reports,

Access is a natural tool to use when building SharePoint client-side interfaces. The next several

chapters provide details of integrating Access 2010 with SharePoint. You’ll see how to incorporate

SharePoint data in Access applications, and how to migrate properly prepared Access applications

to a SharePoint server.