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Access of office 365 as a source

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Andrey Minakov on 04 Dec 2018 18:30:09

It's a very strange situation that PBI Desktop cannot connect to Access using subj. A user has to install a separate Access engine for that. And that means, that you have to install the engine of different bit set (ie if you have 64 bit Office365, you have to install 32-bit Access engine). And that means, that you have to install PBI of the bit set of Access Engine (ie 32 bit in the situation described above). So a user has to choose which of the product has to be of the lower bit set (which is very inconvenient) just because of the problem. And in addition to that a user has to do additional steps if he has to reinstall the Office.