Microsoft Office version

Our project uses MS Access 2019 64-bit. We are doing O365 Testing in preparation for moving to a new version.

See Finding your version of MS Access to find out what version you have.

Upgrading any part of MS Office can break functionality, so we need to test first whenever there might be an upgrade.

Specifically, Digital Health is upgrading our ancient Exchange (email) server from on-premise to cloud over the next few weeks, which requires modern auth and should be tested with our email automation. Also, we have a system of VBS, batch, VBA and possibly PowerShell scripts to run the beast, so we need to know things will work in the new setup.

Verified Version

• TT 2025-08-07: Microsoft Access 2019 MSO (16.0.10417.20030) 64-bit

Version lifecycle

• Office 2019 support ends
  • initially support was supposed to end 2023-10-10
  • extended support was added up to 2025-10-14;
  • Office LTSC 2021 might be an option but support also ends 2026-10-13 so this would only buy us 1 year

Log

• 2025-08-13 - secured a laptop to do O365 Testing
• 2025-08-12 - received group email from Digital Health ICT Services that distribution list will be frozen in prep for Exchange migration - first general notification
• 2025-07-29 - teams chat from the Digital Health contact, still no project to replace O2019, but offered to get me licensed to install MS365 to test
• 2025-07-16 – email to Service Desk; got Request# REQ510946
• 2025-04-29 – emailed for follow-up; contact has no news and expects it will be a while since there really is no project just the idea of a plan…
• 2025-04-10 – emailed a Digital Health contact to see if there are plans for MS Office replacement