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Remove the Options Button and Prevent Users from Opening in Access

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Mike

Since SharePoint 2010 with Access Services has been released, we have gotten requests from customers looking to prevent users from opening their Access application.  Many developers want the only user experience to be the browser based version of their application and our video tutorial hack is too limiting and simply not good enough.  Well, as you can see from the picture above, we have finally figured out a way to remove the Options Menu (and subsequently the Open in Access option) from any Access Web Database.  This customization has been widely requested and is yet another feature that Office 365 does not offer.  Unfortunately because of how SharePoint 2010 was designed and coded, this customization requires that we alter SharePoint master pages and is therefore only available with a virtual private server.  If you are interested in this feature, it is now available with any of our SharePoint Virtual Appliances which are only $499 and include 10 users and 5GB of storage space.

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