Recently I have started working on a project that have previously being managed by two different providers, each one with his way of work, but in both cases without updating the platform.
Many, indeed too many, robots are still using 2021 libraries, SAP is automated by still interacting with traditional click and type into, a lot of IFs are still in the old way (the one in which then was at the left and else was at the right) anda many other ways to automate that may be made sense, but not today.
The current version of the software is 2023.10 UiPath Studio and Robot and Windows 10 as selected OS, but IT is requesting us to migrate the whole platform (more than 30 processes) before october.
I have a lot of questions about the impact that might happen after upgrading the OS and I have come here hoping that someone has something kind of “lessons learned while migrating into Windows 11”.
I supposed that some interfaces, like the explorer while downloading a file will change, maybe some instructions (there are a lot of invoke codes, macros and interactions with Office UI).
As redesign the process to be properly implemented not seems to be an option in a short term, would you mind to help me? Is there any official resource to check the information I am looking for?
Many thanks in advance and do not hesitate to request me more information (it may be confidential, but I will share everything I can)
First list check whcih packages are availbale and which are not in new versions..
From 21 even the basic models changed
Migration from legacy to windows is critical
What kind of interfaces are used? If only web and sap then it should still be working with few tweaks ..but if local windows based apps are used then there might be changes
For migration you have a guide that can help
Also as they are on 21 you migth first need to upgrade to 22.10 and then conversion might be easy
Again specifically for only os change you might not see much impact..you can may be try converting one machine run jobs on it and check as well
I’ve done a few 10 → 11 migrations so far.
If you stuck to standards, and your UiPath is not too far behind you will barely notice the difference. If you now are sill on 23.x moving to 24.10 will just change the look of the studio, and your robots most likely do not require any update.
If you are still using classic libraries, just make sure your 11 environment also has the .NET 4.5 runtimes, and you’ll be fine. Browsers, java apps, and applications will behave the same unless you actually click on things like a taskbar.
I’ve even done a few blind migrations. Just upgrade the OS, reinstall UiPath and apps and run without issues.
Also upgrading all your libraries or moving from legacy to windows mode has potentially more impact, but is not a prerequisite for a win 11 migration. So migrate the OS first (since a lot of people are panicking about the end of support by MS in October). After this is migrated you can just migrate your custom libraries and scripts to more modern versions and motes at your own pace.