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Interim Update #2: Certifying Windows 7 with Oracle E-Business Suite

By Steven Chan on October 22, 2009 10:56 AM

This is the second of a series of regular updates on our Windows 7 certification projects for the E-Business Suite. Microsoft Windows 7 was officially released today. Here's a recap of our plans for certifying the Oracle E-Business Suite with Microsoft's latest operating system. As always, the answers to these questions may change as we move through the certification cycle. You're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for later updates. Our Progress on Windows 7 We're certifying Windows 7 with the E-Business Suite right now. We've already tested several of the Win7 betas and release candidates, and those tests have gone very smoothly. At this point, E-Business Suite product teams need to complete their certification tests with Windows 7 desktop clients. Once those tests are completed, we'll release our certification. For the usual reasons that regular readers could have predicted, I can't share any specific schedules or date estimates here. I can provide an interim update on the following Win7 questions: 1. Which EBS releases will be certified with Windows 7? 2. Which browsers will be certified? 3. Will Oracle JInitiator be certified for EBS on Windows 7? 4. Which Windows 7 editions will be certified? 5. What about Windows 7E? 6. What about Windows XP Mode?

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Internet Explorer 8 Certified with E-Business Suite Release 11i

By Steven Chan on October 6, 2009 11:04 AM

I'm very pleased to announce that Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is now certified as a client browser for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i. IE 8 Support Requires Forms6i Patchset 19 If you're running either Forms6i Patchset 18 or earlier in your EBS 11i environment, you will need to apply Forms6i Patchset 19 to get support for Internet Explorer 8.

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Internet Explorer 8 Certified with E-Business Suite Release 12

By Steven Chan on September 11, 2009 9:46 AM

I'm very pleased to announce that Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is now certified as a client browser for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. IE 8 Support Requires Forms 10.1.2.3 If you're running either Forms 10.1.2.0.2 or 10.1.2.2 in your EBS 12 environment, you will need to update to Forms 10.1.2.3 to get support for Internet Explorer 8.

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Interim Update #1: Certifying Windows 7 with Oracle E-Business Suite

By Steven Chan on July 1, 2009 12:01 PM

Microsoft Windows 7 has been getting a lot of headlines recently.  This seems to have triggered an small but noticeable increase in questions about our plans for certifying this operating system for E-Business Suite desktop clients. 

We're working with pre-release versions of Windows 7 right now.  For the usual reasons that regular readers could have predicted, I can't share any certification schedules or date estimates here. I can provide an interim update on the following Win7 questions:

1. Which EBS releases will be certified with Windows 7?
2. Which browsers will be certified?
3. Will Oracle JInitiator Be certified for EBS on Windows 7?
4. Which Windows 7 editions will be certified?
5. What about Windows 7E?
6. What about Windows XP Mode?

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Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Certified with Apps 11i and 12

By Steven Chan on June 29, 2009 11:29 AM

Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now certified for end-user desktops connecting to the E-Business Suite Release 11i, 12.0, and 12.1.  Supported Windows browsers are Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Firefox 3.0, with the following minimum prerequisites:

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Interim Update #3: Using IE8 with E-Business Suite

By Steven Chan on June 11, 2009 10:10 AM

As of today, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is still not certified with either Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i or 12.  Our standing recommendation is that your desktop administrators use Microsoft's IE8 Blocker Toolkit to prevent your end-users from inadvertently upgrading to IE8.  For full details about this toolkit, see:

• IE8 Blocker Toolkit Available Today! (Microsoft website)

We recommend that you deploy this as soon as possible, to prevent your EBS users from accidentally upgrading their desktops to IE 8. 

What's Holding Up this EBS Certification?

If you recall from our previous updates, the way that we currently launch Forms-based EBS products is not workable in IE8.  We need to do the following things before IE8 can be considered certified with the respective E-Business Suite releases:

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Reminder: Block MS IE8 Upgrades for EBS Users!

By Steven Chan on March 23, 2009 1:00 AM

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 on March 19, 2009.  Reviews about IE 8 are sprouting across the web like flowers after a spring shower.  It is inevitable that some of your E-Business Suite users are going to be tempted into upgrading their desktops to this latest browser.

Our testing with IE 8 is still underway.  There's good news and bad news.  The good news is that the OA Framework (a.k.a. HTML or Self-Service Web Applications) E-Business Suite products seem to work fine with IE 8. 

The bad news is that we've identified issues launching Forms-based (a.k.a. Professional interface) EBS products using IE 8.  These issues exist for both Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i and 12.

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Block Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 for EBS Users

By Steven Chan on January 7, 2009 11:41 AM

Brace yourself: another browser is coming.  It looks like Microsoft is gearing up for an imminent release of Internet Explorer 8.  Neither Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i nor 12 have been certified with IE8 yet.  Our latest tests of the IE8 Release Candidate drops have shown that there are a number of important compatibility issues that need to be resolved.

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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Certified with Apps 11i and 12

By Steven Chan on July 24, 2008 9:31 AM

Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now certified with E-Business Suite Release 11i and 12.

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Running Multiple Java Plug-Ins on the Same Windows PC

By Steven Chan on December 25, 2007 10:35 AM

Judging from your blog comments and emails, many of you are in the difficult situation of having to support end-users with multiple Java plug-ins on the same Windows PC.  This is a little more complicated than the days when Oracle...

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Analyzing Memory vs Performance of Apps 11i and 12 Clients

By andy.tremayne on November 26, 2007 12:09 PM

I've recently published a new Oracle whitepaper that compares combinations of browsers with JInitiator and the native Sun Java plug-in (JRE) to determine which is best for low-specification clients.  It provides specific scenarios and examples showing where there is little...

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Windows Vista + IE7 Certified with E-Business Suite

By Steven Chan on November 8, 2007 10:39 PM

[Mar 16, 2008 Update: Our JRE Certification and support policy has been updated; for details, see: New Sun Java JRE Plug-In Certification Policy for Apps 11i & 12] [Nov 20, 2007 Update:  The original version of this article stated that...

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Replacing Jinitiator: Java Plug-In 1.5.0_12 Certified with Apps 11i & 12

By Steven Chan on June 26, 2007 3:14 PM

[Dec 7, 2007 Update:  Sun JRE 1.5.0_13 is now certified with the E-Business Suite; see this article for details about the latest certification]I'm very pleased to announce that the native Sun JRE plug-in version 1.5.0_12 is now certified and Generally...

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IE7 Now Certified on Apps 11.5.9

By Steven Chan on May 14, 2007 8:40 AM

[May 15, 2007 Update:  ATG Rollup 4 is the minimum level required, not ATG RUP 5 as originally stated.  We strongly recommend  ATG RUP 5, of course.]Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 was certified as a desktop client for E-Business Suite Release...

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Will the Real JRE Please Stand Up?

By Steven Chan on May 3, 2007 9:17 AM

Unlike Release 11i, E-Business Suite Release 12 no longer requires Oracle Jinitiator for its Forms-based content.  In theory, it will be possible to use any version of the native Sun J2SE Runtime Engine (JRE) plug-in to access Forms-based content in...

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JInitiator 1.3.1.28 Certified with Apps 11i

By Steven Chan on March 2, 2007 10:46 AM

[Sept 10, 2007 Update:  Jinitiator 1.3.1.29 has just been certified.  See this article for information about the latest certified Jinitiator release for Apps 11i.]The E-Business Suite Release 11i has two interfaces:  a web-based model for modules like iProcurement and iStore,...

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Microsoft IE 7 Certified with Apps 11i

By Steven Chan on December 12, 2006 6:19 AM

[May 14, 2007 Update:  IE 7 is now certified for Release 11.5.9 environments, too.  For details, see:  IE7 Now Certified on Apps 11.5.9][May 11, 2007 Update:  Bug 5608740 has been resolved.  Discoverer 10g users can now safely upgrade to IE7...

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Internet Explorer 7 and the E-Business Suite

By Steven Chan on October 20, 2006 5:23 PM

[Editor Dec 14, 2006 Update:  IE 7 is now certified with the E-Business Suite.  See Microsoft IE 7 Certified with Apps 11i.]Microsoft has just released Internet Explorer 7, which will be available as a high-priority update via Windows Automatic Update. ...

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In Depth: Try Internet Explorer 7 Beta without Breaking EBS

By keith.m.swartz on September 20, 2006 9:59 AM

[Editor Dec 14 Update:  IE 7 is now certified with the E-Business Suite.  See Microsoft IE 7 Certified with Apps 11i.]In this fourth post of our increasingly inappropriately-named trilogy (kudos to Douglas Adams), we expand on the concept of why...

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Pre-Release Browsers: Why Internet Explorer 7 Matters

By keith.m.swartz on September 8, 2006 6:44 AM

[Editor Dec 14 Update:  IE 7 is now certified with the E-Business Suite.  See Microsoft IE 7 Certified with Apps 11i.][Editor Update May 21, 2008:  Keith has moved on to another team within Oracle and, sadly, is no longer an...

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