I had to help out with trying to automate a process that updates an Access file unattended.<\/p>\n
I get my geek hat on and try to automate this using a SSIS package. That didn’t work out as expected so I then write a little C# program to do the same thing. In both cases, I had to install the Microsoft Office Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs). With the SSIS package, I tried implementing this with a Script Task. When that failed, I wrote the console application to do the same thing.<\/p>\n
This console application worked. Then I did further testing and realized that I don’t think I’ll ever get this working like I want it to work. At the end of my testing I came to the conclusion that to automate this, the account used needs some permission (account I used had administrative privileges) and needs an interactive session. Further research shows that Microsoft didn’t create Access with server-side automation in mind (see here<\/a> (until the link dies) if you don’t believe me).<\/p>\n This is upsetting but until I find a workaround, I’ll shelve this task too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had to help out with trying to automate a process that updates an Access file unattended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,3],"tags":[25,24,20],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-c","category-sql","tag-access","tag-c","tag-sql"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aceplaza.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aceplaza.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aceplaza.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aceplaza.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aceplaza.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aceplaza.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aceplaza.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aceplaza.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aceplaza.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aceplaza.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}