There’s a really great new service available to teach and learn Office 2010 available at www.office2010tutor.com. Instead of watching tutorials and recreating the steps, you can just download their software and have it do the task for you. Their player has over 850 helpful tutorials for Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint. There’s a free trial too so give it a try.
Happy Holidays from Everybody at Access Hosting! We hope everyone has a great holiday and look forward to announcing some exciting new hosting plans in 2012.
Sasha Froyland, CEO of Help4Access has put together some awesome videos showing off what you can do with Microsoft Access in the cloud. All of these videos utilize Access Hosting as the backend/hosting solution so they are great examples of what can be achieved with our services.
Help4Access is an Access Consulting company that focuses on migrating your database applications to the Cloud. Contact Sasha and his team today to get your applications into the cloud today and start seeing increased speed, reliability and availabilty of your company’s most valuable data.
Access Hosting has a close working relationship with Help4Access and they are familiar with all of our hosting plans and solutions. We highly recommend that you check them out if you need any sort of development or application level support.
Our remote desktop option has become more and more popular, especially with traditional Access Developers that want to utilize the full power and robustness of the Access software, plugins, VBA code, and more! Here are some frequently asked questions that we always receive regarding our RDP hosting:
How can I load my Access database into the remote desktop session?
There are 3 ways to accomplish this. 1) Use a Copy/Paste from your local machine into the remote session 2) Look under the “Computer” icon in the remote session. You should see your local drive displayed 3) Use a web based storage service like www.dropbox.com to transfer the files.
Can I have multiple concurrent users accessing the same database?
Sure – if you purchase more than one instance of the remote desktop we can provide a networks storage location that can be mapped as a Z:\ (or any other letter) drive and used for the backend of your Access Database.
How do I connect my Macintosh to the Access Application in the Remote Desktop?
The Microsoft Remote Desktop client for Macintosh OSX can be downloaded at no charge from http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads
How do I connect my iPhone and iPad to the Access Application in the Remote Desktop?
We recommend purchasing www.jumpdesktop.com from the App Store to connect your iOS devices to the remote desktop
How can I backup my Access database?
We recommend using a www.dropbox.com account and installing that into your desktop. You can then setup regular backups that move your information into the cloud.
Can I use a local printer?
Yes. Any printers that are locally attached via on LPT port are fully supported. Printers that are connected via your local network or USB are also supported but need to be mapped into a local LPT port before they are visible to the remote desktop session. The command to do this looks something like net use lpt3 \\servername\printer /persistent:yes. Do this before connecting to the remote session and the printer should be visible.
Can multiple users share a single remote desktop instance?
Yes, but only one user can be connected at a time. If your users connect at different times during the day they can share a single remote desktop instance.
I was able to get my hands on a Blackberry Playbook today and had a chance to test our SharePoint service and Hosted Microsoft Access Databases. I am happy to report that the browser that the Blackberry Playbook uses seems to be completely compatible with SharePoint 2010. I was able to login to our demo site and load our Contacts Web Database right on the Blackberry Playbook. I took a quick snapshot on my phone of the database working on the Playbook. Very cool!
This week, we are happy to announce a special promotion for anyone looking to try out Access Hosting. This promotion is specifically geared towards Office 365 users looking for web based reporting functionality, iPad, iPhone, and Android support, email enabled databases, and permissive file handling of PDFs. Anyone can Test out Access Hosting for 3 months and get 1GB of space and 5 users for only $99. If you are tired of the limitations of Access Services in Office 365, this promotion is perfect for you!
For more information on this promotion, please visit our Office 365 Promotion Page.
A lot of people have started using our Remote Desktop solution and are thrilled with its speed and functionality. These clients want more and more RDP sessions, but the steep pricing for concurrent users ($99/month) has dissuaded them from implementing this great solution on a greater scale. I am happy to announce that we can offer some discounts and a sliding pricing scale for multiple RDP sessions pointing to the same data.
1st RDP session: $99/month
Next 2-5 Users: $89/each
6-10 Users: $79/each
10+ Users: $69/each
We hope that this will alleviate some of the expense to our clients. Unfortunately, Remote Desktop will always be a pricey option for concurrent users because of the resources needed and the expense of Windows/Microsoft licensing.
This video demonstrates how easy it is to use Access Hosting’s great SharePoint hosting service on your iPad. Because of our SharePoint configuration, your Access 2010 Web Databases look great on Apple’s iPad. You can easily navigate and use any web forms, queries, and reports right from your iPad’s touchscreen. This video demonstrates logging into your Access Hosting SharePoint site, navigating SharePoint, loading a Contacts Web Database, and then navigating and using your Web Database:
Here is a quick video demonstrating how Access Hosting’s Web Databases work on Android devices. In this quick video, we are using our simple Web Contacts Database and running it on an HTC Droid Incredible from Verizon Wireless:
As mentioned in our previous post, the key is to have Firefox downloaded and installed on your Android Device.
A lot of people have been asking us about getting their Access Hosting Application and SharePoint 2010 site working on their Android Phone or Android Tablet. Let me start off by saying that we have not tested every Android device out there (there are a lot), but we have been successful getting our own simple hosted web contacts database working on a variety of Android phones.
The key problem that people run into when using Android is that the default browser is not supported by Microsoft SharePoint and blocks the authentication prompt. The fix is very simple. Download the free Mozilla FireFox browser from the Android Marketplace.
Mozilla FireFox is a fully supported browser by Microsoft for SharePoint 2010 and while every SharePoint feature may not work on the phone, you certainly can view all your Access web forms, reports, and queries.
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