by MSI » Tue Aug 15, 2023 3:37 pm
Had this issue come up on new installations
it's included in the
Licensee Only forum and repeat here for convenience
- First, be sure you have a separate license for the NEW computer
- we provide additional temp licenses for moving, and additional license on request
- Second, NOTE: If you have Office 32bit installed on your system, you will get the error:
- OLEDB error.png (13.99 KiB) Viewed 12297 times
Unable to start DB engine, need to setup DB engine.
Provider=Microsoft.DB.OLEDB.12.0- NOTE: Our installation checks for and installs 64bit Microsoft.DB ONLY IF you don't have OFFICE installed...
- 'If your system has 32 BIT Office is installed, please update to 64bit Office.
Microsoft will NOT allow 32 and 64 access database engines to exist on a system so please consider updating your office to 64bit
Had this issue come up on new installations
it's included in the [url=https://www.mchenrysoftware.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=2144]Licensee Only forum[/url] and repeat here for convenience
[list][*]First, be sure you have a separate license for the NEW computer
[list]we provide additional temp licenses for moving, and additional license on request[/list]
[*]Second, [size=150]NOTE: If you have Office 32bit installed on your system, you will get the error: [/size]
[align=center][attachment=0]OLEDB error.png[/attachment]
[color=#FF0000]Unable to start DB engine, need to setup DB engine.
Provider=Microsoft.DB.OLEDB.12.0[/color][/align]
[list][*]NOTE: Our installation checks for and installs [b]64bit Microsoft.DB[/b] ONLY IF you don't have OFFICE installed...
[list]When we downloaded and [url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54920]installed the Database Engine redistributable[/url] on a system with OFFICE32bit the installation produced the error
[/list][list][*]'[size=150][b]If your system has 32 BIT Office is installed, please update to 64bit Office.[/b][/size]
[color=#FF0000]Microsoft will NOT allow 32 and 64 access database engines to exist on a system so please consider updating your office to 64bit[/list][/color]
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