O365 Testing

Support for our current Microsoft Office version is ending in Oct 2025 so we are testing O365 which will eventually replace it.

Plan

• TT will do basic testing
• then work with Michelle for data collector testing
• work with Pagasa for testing of CFE

The laptop doesn't have SAS so we need to plan separately for testing this. Julie, what are your thoughts?

• SMW

• Cargo

• Categories

Checklist

CCMDB

• plain running our DB in the new version
• any Macro security issues
• VBA libraries we include and whether they will need to be brought to a new version
• DB connectivity, we use VBA to reconnect front and back end and to send
• Sending
• Outlook email tie ins: email buttons and also the Cognos import

CFE

• VBA

Other things we do in MS Office that we might want test?

• Labs importer
• any of our legacy data storage
• any VBS/Powershell scripts that might interact programmatically. We used to have some, not sure if we still do.

Log

• 2025-08-...
  • borrowed Test laptop from Tom for 1 month
  • Laptop was set up with W11 and O365 for testing