OELDB 64 bit driver support

[Anonymous]

Blue prism product doesn't work with 64 bit drivers of OLEDB. We are upgrading to O365. There is an organization wide push to only use 64-bit installations. OLEDB is used to access excel and MS access database. OLEDB VBO is used as it provides efficient excel operations.
Blue prism is unable to initialize connection with 64-bit OLEDB driver. This is a request to upgrade the product and provide support so that it works with 64 bit drivers. This is required to have true adoption of O365 and 64 bit.

Refer below ticket for more details: Ticket: https://support.blueprism.com/helpdesk/tickets/208756

[ewilson]

Hi @devendra soni,

Unfortunately, BP will not be able to support 64 bit drivers until the underlying Automate.exe process is converted into a actual 64-bit process. Presently, Automate.exe is a 32-bit process. This is necessary as some of the legacy Windows DLLs that are used in UI automation are 32-bit only.

There are plans to release a true 64-bit Blue Prism client though. Please keep an eye on the product roadmap as it should show up there.​

[robert.nicklin]

Hello @devendra soni,

Following a review of your idea, we have decided to move your idea to the Planned - Now stage given that this feature is expected to be delivered in the upcoming Blue Prism Enterprise 7.2 release. 

We will post another update once your idea has been delivered. 

Regards,
Rob​​

[robert.nicklin]

Hi @devendra soni,

As you may have seen, we released Blue Prism 7.2 last week, which included this feature. As a result, I'm marking this idea as Delivered.

Regards,
Rob