ACC97: Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer May List Microsoft Jet 3.5 as Not Year 2000 Compliant

ID: Q243463

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Access 97

Novice: Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers.

SYMPTOMS

The Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer lists Microsoft Jet as not being compliant, even though you have previously applied Microsoft Jet Service Pack 2 (SP2) and/or Microsoft Jet Service Pack 3 (SP3), which are both year 2000 compliant.

CAUSE

The Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer generates a report on the compliance of products that it discovers based on the information in a compliance database.

However, the information in the first version of the compliance database is designed to fail if the version of Microsoft Jet it discovers is not the version that shipped with Microsoft Access SR-2. Because Microsoft Jet 3.51 SP2 and Microsoft Jet 3.51 SP3 are newer than the version that shipped with SR-2, they are incorrectly listed in the Product Analyzer Report as noncompliant.

RESOLUTION

If you have applied Microsoft Jet SP2 or Microsoft Jet SP3, disregard what the report may say about Microsoft Jet.

For current information about Microsoft products, download and run the latest version of the Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer. It uses a compliance database that has been updated with information from the following Microsoft Web address:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/year2k/y2kdbEN.txt

NOTE: If products from other companies are added to the database, the accuracy of the reporting of those products reflects the thoroughness of the tests used to determine compliance for those products, and the care with which the database was edited.

STATUS

Microsoft will add this information to the y2kdbEN.txt database when the next update occurs.

MORE INFORMATION

A database called y2kdbEN.txt is included with the Microsoft Year 2000 Product Analyzer. It contains information about which products are compliant. While product testing continues, the information in the supplied database is subject to change.

For additional information about properly updating Microsoft Jet used by Microsoft Access 97, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q172733 Updated Version of Microsoft Jet 3.5 Available for Download

REFERENCES

For more information about how Microsoft products are affected by year 2000 (Y2K) issues, please see the following Microsoft World Wide Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/year2000/

Additional query words: prb KB2000 Y2K

Keywords : kbdta
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb