Outlook 97 / 2003 VB Script Compatibility

[HaworthBantam]

The organisation I work for will shortly be upgrading from NT4 to XP, including an Office 97 to Office 2003 migration.

I have a number of Outlook 98 forms that incorporate a fair amount of VB script and, not having a test bed available to me, I am unable to confirm whether these forms will continue to work under the new environment.

Is there any kind soul out there that has gone through this process before able to let me know how worried I should be ;-)

Thanks.

 

[Mike555]

I can suggest 2 things you consider:

First: By default, Outlook 2003's Macro Security is set to HIGH. Most likely you will need to modify this to set it to LOW in order to run the scripts. You could probably also add your programs as 'trusted publishers', but that'd be too much work in my opinion.

Second: Are you migrating your servers from NT to 2003 at the same time? If yes, are any new security features from the domain level being applied which may prevent the script from executing correctly.

 

[HaworthBantam]

Thanks Mike,

The servers are being migrated at the same time.

Unfortunately, our IT partners who look after the infrastructure have not released details of the build yet so I cannot answer your second question - The upgrades are due to take place between April and December 2006.

Security is something I'm going to have to investigate further once I have more information regarding the build. The main concern for myself at the moment is the compatibility of the script within the two versions - I'd really like to avoid re-writing a few thousand lines of code in each form if I can get away with it (getting lazy in my old age).

Thanks for your help.