So, here at work - my IT guy let us know there is this big Looming Deadline by Micro$oft - to kill off a bunch of older applications. Including older Windows servers, and other older Windows apps - including Win10. And, now it's become a little bit of a Scramble. Even just upgrading my work PC from 10 to 11 was a bit of a nightmare the past few days - taking most of Fri. & Today to try and solve issues that were causing the Upgrade to Fail. I would NOTÂ be exaggerating to say that I had to try the install somewhere between 7 - 10 times in the past 2 days before we got success.
It was very frustrating to say the least.
And, now others on the IT team here are also going to be going thru the process of upgrading. Of course, we are upgrading 1st before the whole co. - as we need to find out where some problems reside.
For instance, we do email transmissions as part of our database system applications. Most of the emails are transmitted internally. A lot of the emails are done via Office Automation. However, that requires Outlook being installed on a PC. That being said, there are a number of computers in the production facility that have this kind of TimeClock app on it - which is used to track production of parts - and allows the folks working on the parts to submit their hours into the system. As such, many different people would use a single computer. So, in fact - no One person actually logs into the PC with the Timeclock. As such, the Timeclock machines do NOT have Outlook. So, for the Timeclock application we used VFPWinSock to transmit emails instead of office automation.
Now, with the conversion to Win11 - it seems the VFPWinSock application code is throwing an error. And, we may need to find another method for sending emails.
I'm sure other folks here in the forum, that have older VFP apps - and are running on Win10 machines that soon need to switch to Win11 - especially in regards to businesses.
As such, I wanted to start this thread - not only for input on our own issue w/Emails & VFPWinSock. But, I'd also like to know the experiences of others here - in regards to Switching from Win10 to Win11 - and find out if there are other Gotchas out there that I should be made aware of!
Thanks in advance for the input!
-Kurt