Office 2021 ACE

OSVBNET 1,386 Reputation points
2022-09-09T04:19:56.217+00:00

Hello,
Until Office 2016 (and maybe 2019, not sure) with installing Office we also had Access Database Engine registered with core files here:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE16\ACECORE.DLL and so on...

Just installed the latest version of Office 2021 and not only Access Database Engine is not registered, but also core files are copied here:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE16\ACECORE.DLL
Any official comment on what's going on?

Since Office 2021 is still version 16, this is my connection string:
"Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.16.0..."
Is it changed?

Thanks

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  1. Charles Qi_MSFT 966 Reputation points
    2022-09-13T01:39:32.33+00:00

    Hi, @OSVBNET

    Did you got any error message when use the database?

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