How To Emulate Your Clients Drive – 2

Reflection in a mirror

In my previous post on the matter:

how we could use subst to emulate client drives.  So fake a G:\ drive for instance.

Today, I wanted to demonstrate another very useful technique that you can use to create ‘virtual’ folders.
 
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Access/Office Won’t Update Beyond Version 2002

I’ve been smacking my head against my PC (a VM that is) because I couldn’t get it to update beyond Version 2002 (build 12257.22286) no matter what I tried:

  • Manually updating via one of the Office Apps
  • Forcing the update via command line
  • Tried changing the update channel via the command line
  • Tried changing the update channel via the MS365 Admin Center

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Access – Northwind 2.0 Direct Downloads

As reported in forum posts, comments here and my own testing, it appears that the new Northwind 2.0 template is not available to any non-English installations.

Now I have a couple questions out on the subject to the powers that be and Microsoft and will report back once I have valid information on the subject, but for those of you still wanting to look over the English version and cannot access the files, below are 2 direct downloads:

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Power Automate – Twitter Connector Fails

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A very short post to simply confirm that those of your using Power Automate’s Twitter connector, it no longer authenticate since about April 20th, 2023 and you get

ActionFailed

Unauthorized

Unauthorized clientRequest

so on and so forth.

Just know you aren’t loosing your minds, and you haven’t done anything wrong! According to what I heard, the issue is entirely caused by Twitter making changes to their API.

Robert Crane has a nice blog posting about a possible workaround to the issue, so feel free to peruse it:

Northwind 2.0 Is Available

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I’ve been curiously following the development and hopeful for the release of the Northwind 2.0 project for quite some time now and was happy to see George’s post

Watch this space for a notice about the imminent release of the Northwind 2.0 Starter and Developer Access Showcases.George Hepworth

Sadly, a month later still nothing! Not sure why such a premature announcement was made. (keep reading, there’s actually good news)
 
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Access – Proper Folder Setup

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By now, we all know that the proper setup of an Access database is to split the database into a back-end (tables) and front-end (everything else) and then deploy the back-end on a central share and an individual copy of the front-end to each user’s local PC.  Furthermore, both the back-end and front-end required Read/Write/Delete permissions.

If you’re not already aware of this, I’d recommend you review:

 
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VBA – Getting Summary Information About Your VBE Project

If you’re like me, you might have hundreds, or even thousands of databases and finding VBA code, know what is where might be a challenge to put things lightly.

In the past I provided a procedure to get some information about modules and procedures:

 

I thought I’d share a slightly modified version .  The reason this one can be useful is because you can actually use it to pull information for external databases, not just the current database.  I use this type of approach to create an inventory of modules/functions making it much easier to locate things in amongst all my databases, workbooks & documents.

It extracts a list of modules with your VBE projects and further enumerate the various procedures within each module providing information about the name, type, no lines of code, …

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VBA – Automating Irfanview

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I didn’t originally plan on making any posts about Irfanview, but because I mentioned in in my recent YouTube video regarding

I figured I owed it to everyone to at least touch upon the subject.

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VBA – Open Image With Paint3D

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To round off my recent set of articles about automating opening images in various applications:

I thought I’d include examples of automating Paint3D.

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VBA – Launch A Windows Store App

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Because of my recent exploration of trying to automate MS Photos to open a specified image

it has made me learn a little about store apps and the way we can work with them, or at lease launch them.

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