Microsoft Access/Office Year 2000 Resource Center

Microsoft acknowledges Year 2000 issues in every version of Microsoft Access! How you customized Microsoft Access can also cause your databases to handle dates improperly. Without careful analysis, many Microsoft Access databases will fail after 1999. Don't let this happen to you! FMS offers a number of resources to learn more about this serious problem, as well as links to other good sources of information on the topic.


Technical White Papers

FMS has led the research into Year 2000 issues in Microsoft Access and Microsoft Office. We've written articles, and presented popular sessions on these topics at numerous user groups and conferences, including major Microsoft sponsored events such as TechEd, Access Advisor DevCon, and Microsoft Office and VBA Solutions.

These papers not only describe the many Year 2000 risks in Microsoft Access and Microsoft Office, but also the solutions you need to apply. Please read them carefully to understand what you need to do before 2000.

purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Year 2000 Issues in Microsoft Access, by Luke Chung, President of FMS
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Access, VB, Office, and the Year 2000, by Dan Haught, Vice President of Product Development at FMS

Year 2000 Tool for Microsoft Access

purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Total Access Inspector 2000
Total Access Inspector 2000 is the most comprehensive Year 2000 tool for Access. Designed specifically for Access by the world's leading Access Year 2000 and database documentation experts, Total Access Inspector 2000 gets you ready for the next century!

FMS Year 2000 News

purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Microsoft Posts FMS Year 2000 Paper
FMS is proud to announce that Microsoft has posted our Y2K white paper "Preparing Office Solutions for the Year 2000" in their Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure and Resource Center.
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) technet.gif (1976 bytes)Microsoft Chooses Total Access Inspector 2000
Microsoft will showcase FMS' popular Year 2000 database inspection program during its nationally  scheduled TechNet briefings this summer and fall.
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) FMS Products: Year 2000 Compliance Statement
FMS has done a great deal of research on the Year 2000 problem as it relates to Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Visual Basic. We have recently finished a top-down review of Year 2000 compliance in our Total Access and Total VB product lines.

Year 2000 Links

purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Microsoft's site for Year 2000 articles
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Microsoft's site for Year 2000 info and links
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Gartner Group article on a 10-step plan for year 2000 compliance
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) General Year 2000 Tool Site
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) GSA policy on Year 2000 Compliance
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) NIST web page on time zones
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) MarketPartners Y2K Banking information
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) InfoWorld Y2K Overview 
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Access And The Y2K Bug

Articles on Year 2000 and Microsoft Access

purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Y2K A Never-Ending Story, InfoWorld article
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Taming the Software Programs Layer: It’s Not as Difficult as You May Think, Microsoft article
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Scope of Y2K crisis widens: Costs are mounting, InfoWorld article
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Microsoft not Y2K ready; key apps offer confusing fixes, InfoWorld article
Now that most mainframe year 2000 compliance efforts are wrapping up, Year 2000 issues in Microsoft Office and PC desktops are being taken seriously

Year 2000 Newsgroups

Want to ask Year 2000 questions and share experiences with other users? Visit these friendly newsgroups:

purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Total Access Inspector 2000 Discussion & Support Group
purppuzbul.jpg (712 bytes) Microsoft's Public Year 2000 Newsgroup

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