[cisco-voip] Incompatibility Issues

[Ed Leatherman]

We had kinda a bad situation with Connection and the ordering tool. We
specced it into our bill of materials for a project at a remote campus
before the product was generally available on the price list, so we were
given some temporary part numbers to use. When the order went out, our sales
partner ordered the exact items on the materials list and it made it through
the ordering tool. When I went onsite to install, i found i was stuck with a
server with win2k OS and Unity Connections requireing win2k3. We got around
it but if I hadnt had a set of 2003 media and some extra licenses they would
have been without voicemail until we could RMA everything and get the right
stuff.

Connection is great though, I was able to install it almost over a lunch
break, not counting installing the OS first.

On 7/13/06, Ryan Ratliff <rratliff at cisco.com> wrote:
>
> I was originally going to put in my earlier email a wish for a smart
> ordering tool that would detect if you were ordering software that
> did not go with your hardware but it would only help in the case that
> you order everything at the same time.
>
> Looking at the dynamic configuration tool the descriptions for the CM
> software looks pretty good.  Each CM part number says exactly the
> server it is supposed to go with.  Of course this doesn't mean the
> person doing the ordering will know to look at this.
>
> The reason we can't post ISOs any more is due to MS licensing
> restrictions.  The BU started really cracking down on this about the
> time 2000.4.1 came out.
>
> If you can get your hands on 5.0 you'll love it.   I did an install
> yesterday (5.0.4) and it's one DVD, run though the OS config and
> everything is done for you.  Of course you can't even activate the
> CCM service without a license but the install is easy :)
>
> I remember back when Unity connections was in development one of the
> BU guys was bragging that you'd be able to reinstall Unity over lunch
> it was so easy.
>
> -Ryan
>
>
-- 
Ed Leatherman
IP Telephony Coordinator
West Virginia University
Telecommunications and Network Operations
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