[cisco-voip] Upgrade / DST Advice

[Justin Steinberg]

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On 3/9/07, Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com> wrote:
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> How do you apply the Java update for Unity?
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> Jonathan
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> On 3/2/07, Voll, Scott <Scott.Voll at wesd.org > wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Phone load:  my guess it's for someone who has not upgraded to the 8.2
> > firmware but needs the patch.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > Call Manager
> > 4.1(2)es40
> > OS - 2000.4.2sr12
> >
> > 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)
> >
> > Phones
> > Mostly 7970G with a few 7960s.
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 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 ?
> >
> > 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 ?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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) ?
> >
> > 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....
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > Geoff Rhodes
> > Director, Information Technology
> > Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.
> > 704 / 377-8188
> > grhodes at rbh.com
> >
> >
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