title: When using Microsoft Access, should we keep front-end masters in a shared folder and then have each person download a local copy?
body: <p>Current Microsoft Access set up:</p>
  <p>SharedNetworkDrive:\Engineering\AccessDB\ -- from here the db is split like this</p>
  <p>SharedNetworkDrive:\Engineering\AccessDB\front-end &amp;</p>
  <p>SharedNetworkDrive:\Engineering\AccessDB\back-end</p>
  <p>That being said, we have multiple departments using multiple front ends with a shared back-end file. I'm new to the project and I'm trying to develop an administrative front-end to log users off to perform maintenance on the back-end whenever there's a corrupt record.</p>
  <p>To the question: Should users be using the front-ends located in the share drive, or should we continue distributing files of the front-ends that are to be saved locally on their desktops? Does it matter? Is there an alternative to make administrative tasks easier?</p>