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The current plan is to make Access RT 2019 available for customers to install from the Office Deployment Tool. This should be available in the second half of 2019.
The recommendation for Office 2019 perpetual consumers, is (and will remain) to install the free version of O365 Access Runtime from the download page. -
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I just discovered that if you install the Access 365 runtime to a computer running Office Pro Plus 365 that it will actually REPLACE the "Full version" of Access 365 with the Runtime version -- it does not install it "beside" that version. The implication is that it is not possible to have both the runtime and full versions of Access on the same machine at the same time for dev/testing purposes, and it also means that setup routines have to be "aware" of whether or not the full Access 365 is already on the machine or not and then "not" install Access 365 Runtime if it detects the full version.
It would be nice if the installer if just run manually by and end user did the same type of check with a warning prior to proceeding: "Warning the full version of Microsoft Access 365 is already installed on this computer. If you proceed, that version will be downgraded to the Runtime version and users will no longer be able to create or edit Microsoft Access databases. Are you sure you want to proceed with this downgrade?"