Access Services Overview

Access Services is designed to allow connectivity between SharePoint and Access 2010 databases for business applications where out-of-the-box lists and libraries may not fully meet the business needs. Several site templates are available that can be used to create sites with specific purposes: Assets Web Database, Charitable Contributions Web Database, Contacts Web Database, Issues Web Database, and Projects Web Database. Skilled Access DBAs can also create tables, forms, queries, and reports and then publish them to the SharePoint 2010 environment. This section gives an example of creating a Projects Web Database from a template to give an idea of the out-of-the-box templates that are available, but won’t cover a new ...

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