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Geez, after reading this thread I don't feel so bad about my MS bashing. Some years ago me and other AWF members, (I won't mention names), really bashed MS about AWA and Access in the PMADN LinkedIn group. Shortly after, MS bought LinkedIn and our months long bashing disappeared along with a lot...

That one certainly captivated your attention ;) and spawned a great cottage industry.

The idea was not already rolling from within MS. When has MS marketing given much thought to Access?... They still don't mention it in all their Office marketing. In year 2015, I initially posted the idea in Access UserVoice and the then MS Access Team admin, Michal Bar closed it. Then I...

Understood Yes (y)

It's all good Doc, I'm not offended. My relationship with Access is like Marmite, "Love it, or hate it" ;) I know I come off too strong and obnoxious, but I am actually fond about Access and wish MS would do something to improve its security. So I am using reverse psychology to get their...

Disdain?... Why would anyone have disdain for such a cute little toy like Access?... It just so happens I do have a fiduciary duty towards my customers because if their data gets hacked I could be held responsible for using a development tool which has a reputation of being very easy to hack...

What's the difference, I was still able to export all data that was decrypted for users to manipulate via a form they use for viewing/adding/editing records. If you think the image I posted is doctored up, try it for yourselves. The bottom line is no matter what you do to "secure" your accde...

At the end of the day, the bottom line is that it's not difficult to enable the navigation pane and other db properties of encrypted FE's, which are used for opening forms to view/edit decrypted data stored in password-encrypted backends. It's very easy to export all the data displayed in those...

Yeh, one cannot do it all with vba inside an open Access FE. Disabling wifi and backups are recipes for corruption. If you can't determine whether ethernet or wifi is being used for the Access table links, then temporarily disabling all network adapters except ethernet before launching the...

I disagree, the truth, however bad it may be, would've made him more respectful than he already was, and he would've sold more books and won an emmy. Now look at where he's at. And aliens always vote for republicans, so killing them guarantees a galactic invasion when they arrive from south of...

When the FE closes, control returns to the cmd script that launched the FE and a PS command can enable the wifi.

That being said, if the main objective is to ensure that a wifi connection is not being used when opening an Access FE, then how about disabling wifi with a PS script that runs when users click on the shortcut that launches the Access FE?

Hmm, there are PowerShell cmdlets for reliably detecting if ethernet is connected: If ( (Get-NetAdapter -Name 'Ethernet').MediaConnectionState -eq 'Connected' ) See: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/use-powershell-to-disable-wi-fi/ Maybe it was not reliable because WiFi adapters are not...

I thought a solution for that was recently solved by you and ADezii in a UA thread?

There's only so much you can do in a browser-based app versus desktop Access. Web browsers are stateless clients, which means everything is done server-side and the browser just displays it and accepts keystrokes, kinda like a dumb terminal, or a streaming terminal server. For security reasons...

The truth always comes out sooner or later. Politicians have to realize you cannot cover up the sky with a hand. Cuomo had a choice to tell the truth about how many died and chose to sweep that under the rug. We did learn about all the cadavers being stored in containers outside funeral homes...

The main reason I am keeping the Access versions of my pawn app around is because most of my clients prefer the rich functionality it offers, e.g. office automation, and they feel their data is more protected by being offline. However, a browser-based version on a private-facing on-premise...

Let's not forget to thank Amazon and other giants for putting shopping malls and small businesses out of business. The pandemic was the icing on the cake. In the area where I live, I have witnessed Home Depot buying up all the smaller hardware stores, just to close their doors!

Understood. The demo will have everything the standard version has. However, the demo will only allow limited number of records, ficticious store name/address, and all objects, including the tables, will be together in one encrypted accde. I have been maintaining several customized versions of...