Sometimes, however, you may be able to avoid restarting the workstation. The redistributable MDAC 2.8 SP1 Setup will sometimes require the workstation to be restarted to complete its installation. See the Microsoft Data Access and Storage Developer Center Web site for more information about redistributing MDAC 2.8 SP1. The ADO components (including RDS) and some OLE DB modules require administrator privileges on Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows XP to install and register correctly. This program is a self-extracting compressed file that installs the run-time components onto a workstation. MDAC 2.8 SP1 includes a redistributable Setup program, in the file mdac_typ.exe. This article does not change the terms of the license agreements in any way. Other applications will use MDAC components, and if they are not part of the same released set, the applications will probably crash.Įach release of MDAC includes a license agreement, which gives you specific rights to redistribute some of the files in MDAC. Although it is tempting to try to distribute only the modules for the components that you think your application may need, there is no supported way to do that. The interdependencies of the modules are complex they must all be distributed as a set. These modules were tested together when Microsoft released them. It should not be installed on any later versions of the data access components.Įach release of MDAC includes a matched set of modules. Note that this redistributable version should only be installed on Windows 2000. This topic provides information about redistributing MDAC 2.8 SP1.

However, there is also a redistributable version of MDAC, MDAC 2.8 Service Pack (SP) 1. Similarly, Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 was included with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It is not distributed separately and cannot be redistributed. Windows Data Access Components (Windows DAC) 6.0 is included in Windows Vista.

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