Shared folders on Sharepoint

[rollingzep]

Hello,

I work for an organization and part of a department. I have inherited, develop and maintain 10-12 Access databases. The team is about 10-15 with 6 active users. These databases are in shared folders and are split into FEs and BEs with Linked tables.
Our department is a part of an IT organization which has other departments as well.
There are current plans to move all the shared folders into SharePoint.
We have Office 16 and Microsoft 365. These are all MDB files
If we move our shared folders to Sharepoint, will the links be affected? Also, in our applications, we transfer files and import data from other locations. How will this be affected?
Since the Sharepoint team has its own administrators, how do we control the security? Though a small team, we deal with highly personal and sensitive data, which we are concerned with administrators from a different team.
To port our databases, do i need to convert them to accdb from mdb?

TIA.

 

[Micron]

AFAIK, M$ stopped supporting Access thru SP because it's a kludge. Access tables converted to SP lists lack certain functionality but I cannot recall exactly what that is. Possibly indexing. The end result is that fast performing db's become too slow to tolerate. I'd advise that you research this so as to get a better idea of what you might be up against. I'd be recommending to not make that move, then say "I told you so" when it they ignore the advice and it goes bad.

 

[rollingzep]

AFAIK, M$ stopped supporting Access thru SP because it's a kludge. Access tables converted to SP lists lack certain functionality but I cannot recall exactly what that is. Possibly indexing. The end result is that fast performing db's become too slow to tolerate. I'd advise that you research this so as to get a better idea of what you might be up against. I'd be recommending to not make that move, then say "I told you so" when it they ignore the advice and it goes bad.

I agree and was doing a lot of reading up on this. Looks not positive.
But was wondering if the shared folders were ported to the share point and not just the databases, will that change anything?
I mean, the BE and FE do reside on these shared folders. Can Users just go the shared folders on the SP and work on the databases?
I think they still need to checkout and probably others will be prevented from doing their updates until the first user checks in.

 

[Micron]

Afraid I can't answer those questions. AFAIK, SP is a type of web server so I expect permissions will be governed that way. I think you are correct in that concurrent userscwill not be possible. If you need remote access, look into things like terminal services. That has a new name now, can't recalk what that us. Or citrix.

 

[Micron]

Sorry for the typos. One reason why I dislike texting!