What exactly do the scanning and reporting tools do?
Sigler: The scanning tool is a small, command-line application that scans a workstation or network for Microsoft Office Access databases and gathers important information about those databases. It scans at three levels — the file level; the Data Access Objects (DAO) level, which allows the code to drill into the file and get the number of tables, queries, forms, connect strings and records; and the Access level. In essence, it locates properties not only about the file, but what is in that file. The scanning tool can be pointed at a server or at a desktop and can be integrated into Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS), for example. Customers can use the tool to scan the server or a specified number of desktops and put the results in a specified location. For example, integrating it with SMS allows you to essentially monitor the desktops throughout an organization. When a customer boots up, SMS kicks in, launches the scanning tool and scans MDB files. The computer then creates an
