Access front end for users without MS Access installed.

[Robeen]

Hi,
I'm using MS Access 2010.


What steps do I need to take to deploy the front end of my split database to users who do not have ms access installed on their machines?
I know that installing the access runtime on the users' machines is one of the steps.
Does my Access DB front end have to be an exe file? Or do i just put a copy of the front end on the various users' machines?
Any other suggestions for the best ways to do this?
Thanks!
Robeen

[pbaldy]

No, you install the runtime version and give them your front end file. The runtime is basically Access without any design capability.

[Robeen]

Thanks, Paul! Appreciate it.
Is there a way to automate the process of getting a new version onto my Users' machines whenever I have made changes that are ready to be implemented?
When I work with Visual Studio Windows applications - there is functionality included that whenever I put a a new version of the app in the network location, it gets downloaded to the User's machine whenever the User next runs it.
Is there something handy-dandy like that for Access 2010?

[pbaldy]

I use a version table in the front end and create little exe's that check the version on the PC vs the version on the server. There's also:

http://www.thatlldoit.com/Pages/howt....aspx#feupdate

http://www.btabdevelopment.com/ts/freetools