OL97: Year 2000 Compliance for Outlook 97
The information in this article applies to:
SUMMARY
An updated Outllib.dll file is available to allow Microsoft Outlook 97 to
meet the Microsoft standard for year 2000 compliance. Outlook 97 includes
versions 8.0, 8.01, 8.02 and 8.03. The updated file is included in the
Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2). After upgrading to SR-2,
Outlook 97 upgrades to version 8.04.
Microsoft Office 97 Service Release-2 (SR-2) is available in two distinct
distributions.
1. SR-2 Patch Compact Disc (CD)
The patch contains only the differences between Microsoft Office 97
Service Release-1 (SR-1) and SR-2 files. The patch is applied to an
SR-1 installation to upgrade it to SR-2. The patch may be obtained
as a downloadable file at the following Microsoft Web site:
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/articles/sr2fact.htm
There are two ways to order the SR-2 Patch on CD if you are
unable to download the patch. The SR-2 Patch CD can be ordered
online at:
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/Articles/sr2directdrive.htm
or by calling the following number:
(800) 370-9272
2. Complete SR-2 CD
The complete SR-2 CD contains all of the Office 97 files, whether they
changed for SR-2 or not. Setup from this CD installs a full copy of
SR-2 even if the computer has no existing version of Office 97
installed. You can order the complete SR-2 CD online at the following
Web address:
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/Articles/sr2directdrive.htm
Microsoft Office 97 SR-2 Patch must be installed over Microsoft Office 97
SR-1, with Outlook 97 version 8.02, or Outlook 97 version 8.03. The patch
will not install over Outlook 97 version 8.0 or 8.01.
If you use Outlook 97 version 8.0, you must first use the SR-1 patch
included on the SR-2 Patch CD.
To update Outlook version 8.01, you must first remove Outlook, and then
install the complete SR-2 compact disc (CD).
NOTE: If you used the previously available Update.exe year 2000 patch,
version 8.3.1.5228, your installation of Outlook is already compliant, but
it does not include the other SR-2 updates. Outlook 98 (version 8.5.5104.6)
is year 2000 compliant.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information about year 2000 compliance in Outlook, please see the
following Microsoft World Wide Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/year2k/
REFERENCES
For additional information about Outlook versions, please see the following
article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q172623
TITLE : OL97: Microsoft Outlook Version Information
For additional information about SR-2, please see the following article in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q151261
TITLE : OFF97: How to Obtain and Install MS Office 97 SR-2
Additional query words: Y2000 Y2K
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Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo