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04/06/2026

FMS President Luke Chung is one of the featured speakers at the annual Access DevCon Vienna, hosted by fellow Access MVP Karl Donaubauer. It will be held virtually April 16-17, 2026. Luke will be speaking on Elevating Access Applications with Modern Charting and Data Visualization. Here's the agenda with other speakers and topics. Hope to see you there!

In this session you’ll learn how to export all objects out of Access (tables, macros, queries, forms, reports, and modules). You will learn how to verify that AI has an understanding of your database, and what prompts to use to have it discover security and performance issues. You will also learn a...

03/10/2026

FMS President Luke Chung will be attending the annual Microsoft MVP Conference on the Microsoft campus. Afterwards, he and other Access MVPs will be attending the public Access Day event at Microsoft on March 27th. Join members of the Access team, experts, and enthusiasts for a full day of learning and camaraderie.

Microsoft Access is the most popular desktop database application development platform. Join us for our one-day Access Day events and our annual Access

02/17/2026

Total Access Detective compares two Access databases or two objects in one database for differences. Total Access Detective 2026 is now shipping with many new features and support for the latest version of Microsoft Access/Office 365/2024. Updates are also available for Access 2016, 2013, and 2010 versions. Visit its webpage for details:

Total Access Detective allows you to quickly identify changes between any two objects or databases.

10/23/2025

Our Total Visual Agent program lets you automate Microsoft Access tasks such as nightly database compacts, backups, launching databases and running a macro, and much more. Tasks can be scheduled one time, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, etc. with audit trails of what was done including email notifications if errors occurred.

In addition to running it on your desktop, the tasks can also run under a Windows Service so it can work even if your PC restarts. If you choose to run it as a service, make sure you are not using Mapped Network Drives since those are only defined by session. That includes the database name and linked tables. We updated our Total Visual Agent Service page to better explain this:

Automate and schedule your Microsoft Access Database Tasks as a Windows Service for improved security and restarts

09/10/2025

We have a new support page for Total Access Analyzer to address situations where the ActiveX security settings in in Access changed. Visit this page if you run into the error "Because of your security settings and current security policy, this control is disabled."

BackgroundMicrosoft Office/Access and organizations have increased security on PCs to limit phishing and other exploits. One of the areas is restricting the use of ActiveX controls. While that may ...

05/28/2025

Here's a post summarizing the recent Microsoft Access conference in Valencia, Spain. FMS President Luke Chung joined other Access MVPs to present their technical expertise and meet fellow enthusiasts. FMS was also a Diamond Sponsor to support the Access community in Spain.

From May 8-11, the Spanish-language in-person conference Evento Internacional de Datos 2025 took place in Valencia.

05/19/2025

Last week, FMS President Luke Chung spoke at the Microsoft Access and Data conference in Valencia, Spain -- making our first event in the country. Luke shared his deep expertise in data analysis with an enthusiastic and engaged audience. FMS was proud to sponsor both the overall conference and the dedicated Microsoft Access track.

The event was held at a scenic hotel along the Mediterranean coast, in a city with a rich history dating back to 400 BC. Conference organizer and fellow Microsoft Access MVP, Juanjo Luna, added a creative touch by using AI to generate medieval-style portraits of every speaker.

We’re grateful for the opportunity to participate in such a dynamic event in a remarkable city. Special thanks to PowerPoint’s live translation features and the interpreters who helped bridge the language gap and facilitate communication in Spanish.
https://eventodedatos.com/

03/20/2025

FMS President Luke Chung is one of the featured speakers at next week's Access Day event at Microsoft Redmond. Luke will be speaking on Extending Your Access Applications with Other Microsoft Office Products. Join him with members of the Access team, and fellow Access enthusiasts for this one-day event.

The Cascade Virtual Conference features a lineup of presenters including Alison Balter, Anders Ebro, Ebo Quansah, Joe Jimenez (Microsoft), and many others.

03/14/2025

There are four Microsoft Access conferences between March and May. Starting with Access Day on March 28th at Microsoft's Redmond Campus; Access Devcon online April 10-11 from Vienna, Austria; International Data Event May 8-11 in Valencia, Spain; and the UK Access User Group 30th Anniversary celebration May 15 in London. FMS is a sponsor and FMS President Luke Chung a speaker at several. Visit our Upcoming Events page for more details. https://fmsinc.com/news/upcoming.htm

02/06/2025

A nice summary of recent activity from the Microsoft Access development team and the Access enhancements they've released.

We have frequently had positive experiences with rapid implementation of change requests and we want to report on some examples.

06/17/2024

Want to distribute your Access applications to users without Access licenses? The free Access Runtime version lets your users run your Access database applications without the need to purchase an Access or Office license. Read our updated page explaining the runtime version features, limitations and download links for the various Access versions:

Microsoft offers runtime versions of Microsoft Access so you can create database applications in MS Access and distribute them to non-Access owners.