Fix: Automatic Configuration of the Current Version of Microsoft Office Access Has Failed

You receive the following error repairing, installing, or using fix-it for Microsoft Access.

Automatics configuration of the current version of Microsoft Office Access has failed. Your database might not function correctly. This can occur if you do not have the necessary permissions to install Microsoft Office Access on this computer.

1. Enable Windows Installer service so Access can finish configuring itself if it was recently patched.

This error is also caused when you install Lync 2013 on a machine with Office 2010. Perform the following steps below.

Run Office Repair from Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs.

or…

Run the following command in Windows command line as Administrator

reg add HKCR\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{3BE786A0-0366-4F5C-9434-25CF162E475E}\InprocServer32 /VE /D "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\ACEOLEDB.DLL" /T REG_SZ /F