[cisco-voip] Unity 5 upgrading from Unity 4

[Keith Klevenski]

Nice.  :c|

Keith Klevenski
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Charles [mailto:jonvoip at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:18 PM
To: Keith Klevenski
Cc: Scott Voll; cisco voip list
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Unity 5 upgrading from Unity 4

That is exactly what I did...

Then when I went to run the Unity 5 install, it failed saying there
was a hostname mismatch... I called TAC, they had no idea what to do
and said, 'this should work...' and then refused to support it.



Jonathan

On 8/23/07, Keith Klevenski <keith.klevenski at rig.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> This does not sound promising as I'm about to embark on the win2k/4.0x to
> win2k3/4.2 to 5.0 myself.  I was going to upgrade to to 4.2 first (since
> 4.03sr1 isn't supported on win2k3), dirt backup, install fresh win2k3
> install, dirt restore, upgrade to 5.0.  This is going to be ugly...
>
>  ________________________________
>  From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net on behalf of
> Jonathan Charles
> Sent: Thu 8/23/2007 6:34 PM
> To: Scott Voll
> Cc: cisco voip list
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Unity 5 upgrading from Unity 4
>
>
>
>
> The Windows issue is the big one I am going to be running into... most
> of the people who want to upgrade is because they want Windows 2000
> out of their network (that is why they went to CCM5.1, MPX, etc...)
>
> A few customers have Unity 4.2(1) on Win2k3, which means the upgrade
> should be easy, but if they are running Win2K, that means a complete
> blow away and start over...
>
> I did one back in July, and it was a nightmare, we ended up abandoning
> the old system and recreating everything from scratch...
>
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 8/23/07, Scott Voll <svoll.voip at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm planning on this upgrade October / Novemberish but have not started
> the
> > research on it yet.  If anyone has any comments I would like to know also.
> >
> > I don't have the Windows issue as I'm already at windows 2k3 with Exchange
> > 2k3 and Unity 4.0.5 UM.  I'm hoping upgrading to 5.0 will be a little
> easier
> > then Jonathan is talking about.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
> > On 8/23/07, Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anyone done it successfully?
> > >
> > > I have a LOT of customers on Unity 4.X running Windows 2000 who want
> > > to upgrade to Unity 5 and Windows 2003. However, my first attempt was
> > > a complete disaster (ended up having to install from scratch).
> > >
> > > Here is the problem:
> > >
> > > You CANNOT upgrade a Windows 2000 box to Windows 2003 once Unity is
> > > installed (says so in the upgrade documentation).
> > >
> > > So, you must do a DRT backup, install Windows 2003 clean, install your
> > > old version of Unity 4.X and restore it. Then you can upgrade to 5
> > >
> > > This is not even slightly as simple as it sounds and has a remarkably
> > > high failure rate.
> > >
> > > (we got an error that the hostname didn't match and the upgrade to unity
> > failed)
> > >
> > > TAC refused to support the upgrade (this was early July, it had come
> > > off of NPH that day).
> > >
> > > If anyone has, I am curious as to what tricks you did to make it work...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jonathan
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