Background
Total Access Emailer is the world's most popular Microsoft Access email add-in product and VBA code library. Simplify the way you communicate with your contacts, and easily share the data and reports from your Microsoft Access databases with personalized emails for each recipient.
Question
Is there a way to silently install Total Access Emailer when distributing my Access application that use the Total Access Emailer runtime library? I am rolling out my application and need to remotely install the runtime to users.
Answer
Yes.
Total Access Emailer includes an add-in that lets you interactively create and send email blasts to the contacts in your tables and queries.
The Professional Version of Total Access Emailer let you send emails from code so you can add it to your Access applications and send the emails from an event like a button click. Details of how to do this are in the manual and on this page: Sending Microsoft Access Email Blasts Programmatically (VBA)
To deploy your Access database to users who don't have Total Access Emailer installed, you need to run the TAERun.exe file once on their machine. This file is included in the Professional Version in your installation folder. By default, when you run it, a user interface appears to let you know what it's doing.
You can run the EXE file without the user seeing it. Use the silent command line parameter “/s” when running TAERun.exe, and the user interface is hidden. From a batch command it would be like this: TAERun.exe /s
The current versions of Total Access Emailer has TAErun.exe which installs both the 32 and 64-bit components so it doesn't matter which Office/Access bitness the user has installed or changes in the future. Older versions of Total Access Emailer had separate TAERun32.EXE and TAERun64.EXE for the different bitness.
Additional Resources
- Visit the web page:
Distributing Microsoft Access Databases with Total Access Emailer to Other Users - Press F1 to open the help file under the topic:
"Using the Microsoft Packaging Tools for Distribution" - Use the installed user manual PDF file or download the user manual.
Additional Support Resources
Comments
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Yes you can.
When deploying the runtime version of Total Access Emailer for Microsoft Access, the executable program to run on the user’s machine can now be invoked without the user seeing it. Use the silent command line parameter “/s” when running TAERun32.EXE or TAERun64.EXE.
For additional information on this topic, please refer to the following help file topic in the help file:
"Using the Microsoft Packaging Tools for Distribution"
There is a PDF download of the help file at the following URL:
http://www.fmsinc.com/MicrosoftAccess/Email/manual/index.htm
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