Part V. Access and Windows SharePoint Services
IN THIS PART
Understanding Windows SharePoint Services
Integrating Access with SharePoint
Converting Access Objects to SharePoint
Deploying Access Applications to SharePoint
Access continues to grow as an integral part of enterprise 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 permission 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 ...
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