After 19 years of development for the Desktop application, it has now reached the end of its life cycle, allowing the Multi-Terr team to devote our full attention on making our WEB application richer.

This difficult decision follows a series of regression errors in different Microsoft products and their company decisions,  which have rendered MS Access and its components difficult to install for users and difficult to support.

Some factors in the decisions are as follows:

• Microsoft OneDrive no longer working with MS Access; regression error occurred more than 9 months ago (at the time of writing this article) with no solution, work around or resolution date.
• MS Access not supporting MySQL drivers correctly, which are required to access Online databases.
  • The latest version of MySQL connector is 9.2 but MS Access 32-bit will not support after 8.0 and MS Access 64-bit will work correctly only up to version 8.3
  • MS Access will not work correctly if multiple version are installed, causing issues with other application in Windows
• New security levels in Windows have caused some users to be unable to install the required drivers
• Frequent regression errors after Windows update
• End of support by Microsoft of Windows 10
• Increased prices for Microsoft products
• Free Access-Runtime not up-to-date with MS Access full version new features
• MS Access still not supported on Apple products
• Computers are decreasing in popularity
• And the list goes on...

Also with the frequent changes in the congregations' territory assignments, and the points mentioned above, it has become increasingly more difficult to transfer the data to the new territory servant.

We will continue to allow existing users to keep using the Desktop application, but we will progressively work on migrating all users to our WEB application.

If you are using functions in the Desktop application that are not currently available in the WEB application, email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will put your request as a priority to integrate it into the WEB application.

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🕘 Last Updated: 2025-05-07