These “stages to the border of the screen” bug is a pain in pre-7.3 versions. It was about time that they fix this. I’m still on 7.2.2 so that’ll have to wait a few months. We weren’t ready to replace our Outlook VBO yet (which 7.3 was forcing us to do it seems) so we went with 7.2.2 for now.
@@gatesv1326 Yeah we are planning an upgrade from 6.10.1 to 7.3.1, and that comes with quite a few differences. I'm trying to think why you'd need to replace the Outlook VBO though. Was it something to do with 64bit?
Hi Dave. No. Unrelated to 64-bit. The 64-bit architecture is what pushed us to go to 7.2. That’s the first release that has this architecture (and it was about time). The update to the new Outlook VBO is required for 7.3. I can’t recall exactly the reason, but the BP release notes for 7.3 mention it. We’re moving out of using the Outlook VBO to use the MS Graph API. Once we’ve updated all of our processes and have cut the ties to the Outlook VBO, we’ll update to 7.3 (or whatever is the latest release at that point), likely in Q1 2025. Until then, we’ll stick with 7.2.2 cause we’ve made too many adjustments to the base VBO to replace it.
@@gatesv1326 I looked into this today because this made me concerned that I would also need to handle this when we upgrade to 7.3.1 within the next few months. It turns out that the new Outlook VBO (the NetOffice one) has the same functionality and technically will work with 7.3+. I just tested it in 7.3.1. I do not know whether I am allowed to mention the reason for the change in VBO. But if you are already using the Outlook VBO and have the Microsoft Interop DLL, you can continue to use it in 7.3+. This just wouldn't be officially supported by Blue Prism (the company). However, it is apparently supposed to be exactly the same and requires nothing beyond importing the new VBO and the rest should work the same. For me, I think I will delay the adoption of that NetOffice newer version of the VBO because we've edited our VBO and thus it'll take some effort for me to make the same changes in the NetOffice version. So, I just wanted to follow up with you and let you know that you can upgrade to 7.3.1 or whatever without changing the Outlook VBO. You may still not want to upgrade, and there's no problem there. I just wanted to let you know what I found.
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These “stages to the border of the screen” bug is a pain in pre-7.3 versions. It was about time that they fix this. I’m still on 7.2.2 so that’ll have to wait a few months. We weren’t ready to replace our Outlook VBO yet (which 7.3 was forcing us to do it seems) so we went with 7.2.2 for now.
@@gatesv1326 Yeah we are planning an upgrade from 6.10.1 to 7.3.1, and that comes with quite a few differences. I'm trying to think why you'd need to replace the Outlook VBO though. Was it something to do with 64bit?
Hi Dave. No. Unrelated to 64-bit. The 64-bit architecture is what pushed us to go to 7.2. That’s the first release that has this architecture (and it was about time). The update to the new Outlook VBO is required for 7.3. I can’t recall exactly the reason, but the BP release notes for 7.3 mention it. We’re moving out of using the Outlook VBO to use the MS Graph API. Once we’ve updated all of our processes and have cut the ties to the Outlook VBO, we’ll update to 7.3 (or whatever is the latest release at that point), likely in Q1 2025. Until then, we’ll stick with 7.2.2 cause we’ve made too many adjustments to the base VBO to replace it.
@@gatesv1326 I looked into this today because this made me concerned that I would also need to handle this when we upgrade to 7.3.1 within the next few months.
It turns out that the new Outlook VBO (the NetOffice one) has the same functionality and technically will work with 7.3+. I just tested it in 7.3.1. I do not know whether I am allowed to mention the reason for the change in VBO. But if you are already using the Outlook VBO and have the Microsoft Interop DLL, you can continue to use it in 7.3+. This just wouldn't be officially supported by Blue Prism (the company). However, it is apparently supposed to be exactly the same and requires nothing beyond importing the new VBO and the rest should work the same.
For me, I think I will delay the adoption of that NetOffice newer version of the VBO because we've edited our VBO and thus it'll take some effort for me to make the same changes in the NetOffice version.
So, I just wanted to follow up with you and let you know that you can upgrade to 7.3.1 or whatever without changing the Outlook VBO. You may still not want to upgrade, and there's no problem there. I just wanted to let you know what I found.
Hey Dave. Just to clarify things, what you meant to say is the OLD VBO (the one we’re using now in pre-7.3 versions) will work with 7.3+, right?
@@gatesv1326 correct