title: Deploy a MDE - auto update & Trusted Source enquiry
body: <p>My backend is on a cloud server and my frontend will be a MDE file.  My company now uses Access2013 but when the database was being designed and coded, we were still on XP.</p>
  
  <p>I am hoping to be able to email all the users a file which will enable auto-updating of the MDE.  The examples I have seen require access to the backend.  While I do not wish to reinvent the wheel, especially as my only programming knowledge is some VBA, I am hoping to create a file that will:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Check if the path C:\Program Files\myDatabaseFolder exists </li>
  <li>If not then create it and copy the MDE from my department server (not the
  cloud).<br>
  (Possibly also copy a self-certificate to get past the
  Trusted Source warning) </li>
  <li>If Path exists then check the date modified of the current version
  against the version on the department server and retain the latest.</li>
  <li>Then Open the Database</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>There are a few things I'm not too clear on - this file I would email to users and get them to put it on their desktop.  When they wanted to access the database, they would just run this - but should this be a batch file or some other form of executable?</p>
  
  <p>Also, when I created the MDE and tried to open it, I got a warning:- "not possible to determine that this content came from a trustworthy source".  I do not want the users to see that on opening the file/database, so would a self-certificate be adequate or is there a way to create a trusted location?  I am hoping for as little user interaction as possible - not all are able to follow simple instructions.</p>
  
  <p>Any advice or comments welcomed.</p>