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Absolutely.<br />
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&nbsp;A lot of Office is built on shared code and that includes Access.<br />
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Jim.
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Absolutely.

 A lot of Office is built on shared code and that includes Access.

Jim.

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I just know this wasn't the case for Windows 2008 R2 with Access Runtime 2010. &nbsp;That never showed as needing any Office updates. &nbsp;So that seems odd.
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I just know this wasn't the case for Windows 2008 R2 with Access Runtime 2010.  That never showed as needing any Office updates.  So that seems odd.

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I can only second Jim. You can confirm it, if you run Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.3.
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I can only second Jim. You can confirm it, if you run Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.3.

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After installing just the Access 2013 Runtime install now WSUS claims I need about 200 security updates for all the Office components like word, excel, lync, powerpoint, etc, etc, &nbsp;Is this necessary to be patched? &nbsp;I know that when Access Runtime is installed it probably installs some shared office files, but this is a little excessive.
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After installing just the Access 2013 Runtime install now WSUS claims I need about 200 security updates for all the Office components like word, excel, lync, powerpoint, etc, etc,  Is this necessary to be patched?  I know that when Access Runtime is installed it probably installs some shared office files, but this is a little excessive.

Access 2013 Runtime and Office Updates from WSUS

Microsoft Access is a rapid application development (RAD) relational database tool. Access can be used for both desktop and web-based applications, and uses VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as its coding language.

Microsoft Access

Microsoft server applications are those applications developed specifically, but not necessarily exclusively, on the Windows Server platform. In addition to well-known products like SQL Server, Exchange, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft Dynamics, Forefront, Lync and Sharepoint, they include applications like Skype, BizTalk, Hyper-V, Groove and Commerce Server. Server applications are managed with the Microsoft System Center.

Microsoft Server Apps

Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.

Microsoft Office

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), previously known as Software Update Services (SUS), is a computer program developed by Microsoft that enables administrators to manage the distribution of updates and hotfixes released for Microsoft products to computers.