Check Compatibility for Deployment of Office 2010 Application

Microsoft Office 2010, codenamed Office 14, is the successor of Microsoft Office 2007. Office 2010 includes extended file compatibility, user interface updates and a refined user experience. And now Microsoft Office 2010 is under beta version, meanwhile, Microsoft has confirmed that Office 2010 will be released in June 2010.

If you want to check for any Office add-ins and determine if they will migrate safely to Office 2010, you could use the recently released tools for IT organizations: Office Environment Assessment Tool beta and Office Code Compatibility Inspector beta.

1. Office Environmental Assessment Tool (Check for any macros or third-party applications)

Download and run Office Environmental Assessment Tool.

Click on “Scan your system” to perform a scan of your system.

A XML file will be created which contain the information collected such as 000C29617870.xml.

To run Office Environmental Assessment Tool on more than one system, you could try “Run Wizard” to configure OEAT to run on several computers.

Then, after information has been collected from the system scanned, use Compile result to compile XML files into a Excel Spreadsheet report.

In the Excel SpreadSheet report, you can review “SummaryReport”, “AllInstalledAddins”, “AddinsNotShippedWithOffice”, “Average Disk Space”, “32bit vs. 64bit”, “Antivirus Status”, “RawData” of the system. Any question, you just read Office Environment Assessment Tool Quick Start Guide or Office Environment Assessment Tool User Manual.

However, Office Environment Assessment Tool produces a basic system summary report that is useful helping you assess your Microsoft Office installation environent. To get depth computer inventory and Office 2010 readiness assessment, please use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit. You can

Launch the download of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit.

Launch the download of the sample documents created by the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit.

Get more related resources for the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit.

2. Code Compatibility Inspector tool (check for Visual Basic for Applications and determine whether that code will port well to Office 2010 or not)

Download and install Office 2010 Code Compatibility Inspector.
Download Office Code Compatibility Inspector Documentation.