Hand Install of 64-bit MS Access ODBC drivers when 32-bit Office is present

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Question

I want to do a hand install of the MS Access 64 bit odbc drivers. Uninstalling 32 bit Office and installing 64 bit Office is not an option due to the add-ins that our company uses.

I downloaded the AccessDatabaseEngine_x64.exe and using WinRar and Universal Extractor have managed to unpack all the files into a temp directory. I believe I have all of the files necessary but am a bit unsure where to go from here and would appreciate a little guidance.

Which DLLs need to be registered to make the MS Access ODBC drivers available in the 64 bit ODBC administrator?

Is there a list of registry entries that I will need to make for it to be available?

Has anyone else dealt with this in a reasonable manner?

Thank you in advance!

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Solution

using the /passive switch you can install 64-bit ace drivers even if 32-bit ms office is present: http://blog.codefluententities.com/2011/01/20/microsoft-access-database-engine-2010-redistributable/

Just be warned that installing the 2010 64-bit ACE engine on a machine with 2010 32-bit Office already installed CAN lead to some wacky behavior in your already existing Office 2010.

OTHER TIPS

To install the Microsoft Access 2016 ODBC Driver, run the installer from the command line with the /quiet switch (which replaces the /passive switch from previous versions).

You'll also need to delete or rename the mso.dll registry value in the following registry key:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\FilesPaths

This information collected from the Data Savvy blog.

I ran into this same issue with a SpringJDBC app that connected to an access DB when I ported it over to a win7x64 box running eclipse-4.3x64 Kepler.

What ended up working for me was to COMPLETELY remove 32bit Office2010 [ and Lync and other MS apps tied to this ] and install the 64bit versions.

Here's the really fun part: The driver name to which you use for Access64bit driver name is now:

|Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)|

Yes, that's a comma-space after "mdb".

So, my spring-config for the Datasource looks like:

<bean id="dataSource"    
    class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource"
    lazy-init="default" 
    autowire="default" 
    dependency-check="default">

    <property name="driverClassName" 
          value="sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver"/>

    <property name="url"        
          value="jdbc:odbc:;DRIVER=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb);DBQ=/Data/dbs/cl97_2k.mdb;"/>       
          <!--  Above is Access 64bit Driver Reference  -->

          <!-- Below is the Access 32bit Driver Reference.        
          value="jdbc:odbc:;DRIVER=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb);DBQ=/Data/dbs/cl97_2k.mdb;"/>
          -->

    <property name="username" value=""/>
    <property name="password" value=""/>

</bean>

Hope this Helps!

I have managed to install both without side effects on Office installation and without using /passive option. Downside is that is tested and working only on one Office version for now. Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 driver for x64 app - how to make it work with x86 MS Office installed?

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