[cisco-voip] Unity upgrade annoyance - VM ONLY

[Jonathan Charles]

OK, how do you do that?


Jonathan

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:46 AM,  <rduric at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
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> You don't need any special licensing but setting up Digital Networking on
> your Unity servers.
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>  Rasim Duric
>  UoG
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>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jonathan Charles
>  Sent: March 29, 2008 12:21 AM
>  To: Cisco Voice
>  Subject: [cisco-voip] Unity upgrade annoyance - VM ONLY
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>  We had a customer who was on a VM-only Unity 4.0(3), they got a new
>  server and we upgraded them to 5.0
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>  We find out after the fact that they were using IMAP to talk to
>  another Unity server in the network. This feature was pulled from
>  Unity in 4.0(5) and customers were advised to purchase a VPIM license
>  ($8500 per node)
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>  The customer was pissed.
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>  So, what we are planning on doing is blowing away the other Unity
>  server and joining it to the stand-alone domain of the Unity 5.0
>  server.
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>  Here are the steps I am planning:
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>  Backup Existing Unity 4.0(3)
>  Pull Hard Drive
>  Upgrade existing Unity to 4.2
>  Backup
>  Pull Backup from box
>  Install Windows 2000 Server on Unity
>  Join to the Unity 5.0 domain
>  DcPromo to make it a DC
>  Install Exchange 2003
>  Install SQL 2000
>  Install Unity 4.2
>  Restore Backup
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>  Now, my question is this.
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>  If I have two Unity servers (5.0 and 4.2) in the same domain, using
>  the same message store, how would users send vmails to each other (on
>  different servers)? Is there any special licensing or will the Unity
>  servers just find each other? Any special configuration? Any gotchas?
>  Should I be fearful for my career?
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>  Jonathan
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