Admins Group Unique?

8 Sep 2006 12:30 AM

Scott McDaniel

Is the Admins group unique for each installation of Access? Not the Admin user, but the Admins Group itself? IOW: If I
install Access on machineA and also on MachineB, would the groups be created with the same PID on each?

I have always thought that the system.mdw file is identical across all installations of Access of the same version. So
my system.mdw file for Access 2002 is exactly identical to your system.mdw file for Access 2002. A colleague has
indicated that the file is not identical, but that the Admins group is unique for installations.

Any links to documentation regarding this? I've looked through the Jet Programmers Handbook and find nothing regarding
this.

8 Sep 2006 3:05 PM

Joan Wild

My understanding is that the Admins group in system.mdw is the same in all
installations of Access.

The WID and organization are hard-coded values, for the purposes of creating
the SID.

I don't have a link to documentation. My information comes from a post made
by Michael Kaplan.

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Joan Wild
Microsoft Access MVP

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> Is the Admins group unique for each installation of Access? Not the
> Admin user, but the Admins Group itself? IOW: If I install Access on
> machineA and also on MachineB, would the groups be created with the
> same PID on each?
>
> I have always thought that the system.mdw file is identical across
> all installations of Access of the same version. So my system.mdw
> file for Access 2002 is exactly identical to your system.mdw file for
> Access 2002. A colleague has indicated that the file is not
> identical, but that the Admins group is unique for installations.
>
> Any links to documentation regarding this? I've looked through the
> Jet Programmers Handbook and find nothing regarding this.