It provides information about Microsoft 365 and why we need to install additional Microsoft Access Runtime for each Microsoft 365 version. Question: do you know if Microsoft has .dao.dll for Office 365? or we MUST install "Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable – 64bit version" on the machine with Office 365 installation? It allows to install while we CANNOT install "Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable – 64bit version" on machine with Office 2013 or Office 2016.Īfter installing "Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable – 64bit version" on machine with Office 365 installation, our application (built as 64bit) ran successfully without error. Download Microsoft Edge More info about Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge Table of contents Exit focus mode. On other try, we install "Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable – 64bit version" on machine with Office 365 installation. Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. On machine with Office 365 installation, we found new .dao.dll (Version: 16.0.0.0, Runttime Version: v9). Moteur de base de données Microsoft Access 2016 redistribuable. I could see the component name appears in control. I tried installing it in administrator mode with the help of my IT team in command prompt with Quiet option as mentioned in the forum C:TempAccessDatabaseEngine.exe /quiet but it installed the component. Passive is supposed to 'run the update without any interaction from the user'. I tried to install Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 redistributable 32 bit version. I have two choices to avoid screens popping up that require user input: passive and quiet. I have tried both building and running our application as 64bit and 32bit, both 32bit and 64bit executables received the same error (above). I am trying to include the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable install program as a pre-requisite in my Visual Studio 2015 install project. Welcome to Visual Studio 2022 17. It throws exception (below) when creating new DBEngine instance:Įx = When our application executed code below: This works with Office 2013 32bit and Office 2016 64bit installation. Our application (VB.NET) uses .dao (Version: 15.0.0.0, Runttime Version: v7) to open local Access database (*.accdb).