[cisco-voip] Upgrade / DST Advice

[Israel Lang]

Here is a great link to get to all the info on Cisco and DST:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_tech_note09186a00807ca437.shtml


On 3/2/07, Voll, Scott <Scott.Voll at wesd.org> wrote:
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> *From:* Jonathan Charles [mailto:jonvoip at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, March 02, 2007 9:42 AM
> *To:* Voll, Scott
> *Cc:* Rhodes, Geoff; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Upgrade / DST Advice
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> What do you mean 'this is only a test year'??????
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> You have got to be kidding me... I am not doing this all over again... I
> haven't had a day off since the last week in January because of this.
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> On 3/2/07, *Voll, Scott* <Scott.Voll at wesd.org> wrote:
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> Upgrade to the newest because cisco at some point will not support 4.2,
> 4.3, etc.  not that I have moved off 4.3 but it's the nature of the
> beast.
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> If you are planning to move to CM 5 you don't want to move to 4.2 as
> there is no path to 5.x from there.  Move to 4.1.3 if you plan to
> upgrade to 5.
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> Unity you just need the windows update and you also need to upgrade the
> Java... at least on 4.0.5.  I don't know for 4.1 for sure.
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> Phone load:  my guess it's for someone who has not upgraded to the 8.2
> firmware but needs the patch.
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> I for one like the extra day light after I go home...... but I'm really
> going to be cranked if they move it back next year as this is only a
> test year.
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> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Rhodes, Geoff
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 7:59 AM
> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [cisco-voip] Upgrade / DST Advice
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> I hate to beat a dead horse, so please accept my apology in advance.  In
> going over the DST issues and trying to plan our strategy, a couple of
> questions popped up.  First let me give the version of what we are
> running:
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> Call Manager
> 4.1(2)es40
> OS - 2000.4.2sr12
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> Unity
> 4.1(1)
> Windows 2000 SP4
> TSP Version : 8.0(2)
> CSA Agent Version: 4.0.3.728
> SQL Version: SQL 2000 - 8.00.760 (SP4 I think)
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> Phones
> Mostly 7970G with a few 7960s.
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> In planning our DST upgrades, I see I need to upgrade the OS on the CM
> boxes to either 200.4.2sr15, 2000.4.3aSR8 or 2000.4.4asr3a.  My question
> is, why would I upgrade to the newest release (4.4) instead of 4.2 or
> 4.3 ?
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> For Call Manager itself, the upgrade doc states I need to upgrade to
> either 4.1(3) or 4.2(3).  Again, why *wouldn't* I not upgrade to 4.2 ?
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> For Unity, I think I need to upgrade to 4.2 and then do the normal
> Microsoft upgrades and patches for a Win2k server.  This seems too easy,
> but you never know.
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> For the phones, I understand the 7960 units get their time from the CM
> server, so that's ok.  For the 7970s, I have a few users running the
> 8.2.1 firmware over the last month and it seems fine.  Today I see Cisco
> released 8.0.4sr3a.  Once again, why would someone upgrade to 8.0.4 when
> 8.2.1 has been released for a while (when the CM is 4.x) ?
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> Curse Congress for making this change.  Most non-IT folks don't even
> know about the change, let alone the hassles the IT community is going
> through.  ARGH....
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> Thanks in advance for any help.
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> Geoff Rhodes
> Director, Information Technology
> Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.
> 704 / 377-8188
> grhodes at rbh.com
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