Access 2013 runtime and SP1

Fantastic news!

Question, will this be issued as a Microsoft Update as some point for users with the previous version installed or will they all have to download this manually?

Hi,

For everyone following this thread, we have now published the Access 2013 Runtime SP1 to the download site. You can download and install the SP1 build of Access 2013 Runtime from this location:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39358

The x86 and x64 installs are both available from that location.

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You also have to realize that not all target machines have MS Office which is why the runtime is being installed. In that case, the SP1 Office Update won't be installed.

JuanMas53 do you think you can give detailed instructions on how you uninstalled the update? Thanks.

I went to Windows Update and clicked "Installed Updates".  I then searched for "sp1" and found "Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2850036) 64-Bit Edition". I then clicked on that entry which revealed an uninstall link in the upper left corner of the window. Clicking the uninstall link will uninstall the service pack.

Hi Albert, my last statement was a little too much on the dark side. Not clear enough.

What I meant by that was to rewrite my application in vb.net to avoid issues with Office 365 pro vs Office 365 plus vs Office Std with Access runtime. I know .net has its issues, Windows Updates will show up and break things, just like Office, but at least I wont have to deal with what it seems to be different "versions" of the same product (Office 365 vs Standard/Pro/run-times or viewers).

You are correct about everything you said, but the simple solution is not that simple as you can see by the comments in this forum. SP1 obviously broke something (as always), but the kicker is that 3 identical systems with Office 365 with the same version throw the "unrecognized format" error. SP1 one won't install in these systems because they have the "Office 365" version of the programs. So the step of ensuring the target machines have the same version as the machine where the software was compiled goes out the window (no pun intended), now what? isn't that laughable on their part?

Well, thanks for your comments, I just wish they (Microsoft) would test their updates before releasing them, specially in mixed environments, but then again, the Team may not have time for little things like that, after all, maintaining the multitude of color themes (3) and figuring out ways of wasting vertical space with their "ribbon" menus takes some serious brain power. I wonder if they know that nowadays most screens are wide-screens and that they are shorter than back in the day.

I don't think my environment is unique, only one dev machine with the full version of Access to compile and x number of target machines that should not need anything but the runtime to run it.

Oh well, even if we were to waste the money getting everyone into Office 365, still would not work.

One wonders who signs their paychecks.

Thanks