[cisco-voip] 4.2 upgrade

[Jorge L. Rodriguez Aguila]

This is the upgrade Path table, according to it, you can go straight to 8.X from 4.2.3 but verify for yourself and ALWAYS Caveat Emptor

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/compat/ccmcompmatr.html#wp302770

Jorge

From: george.hendrix at l-3com.com [mailto:george.hendrix at l-3com.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 10:07 AM
To: Jorge L. Rodriguez Aguila; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: 4.2 upgrade

Yeah, I did the same thing last year on another system.  I had to do a migration from CCM 3.3 to CUCM 7.1.

Like I said too, even IF the upgrade will work.  I would have to go from 4.2 to 7.X and then from 7.x to 8.x, correct?

Bill

From: Jorge L. Rodriguez Aguila [mailto:jorge.rodriguez at netxar.com]<mailto:[mailto:jorge.rodriguez at netxar.com]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 10:04 AM
To: Hendrix, George (Bill) @ LSG - STRATIS; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Subject: RE: 4.2 upgrade

The Main reason for upgrading is to get the tool to give you an amount of DLUs equivalent to what you currently have in terms of phones, If you do a clean install, you would have to open a case with licensing, explain your predicament, they will ask you for all the data, Phone quantity ,etc and build you a license file.

This happened to me on an install where the 4.1.3 server was constant;ly crashing and could not run the upgrade tool correctly. It might be worth a shot.

Jorge

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Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:59 AM
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Subject: [cisco-voip] 4.2 upgrade

Hey guys,

We are in the process of upgrading from CCM 4.2(3) to CUCM 8.X really soon.  To give you some background.

First, I am not confident the current system was built correctly in the first place, but it seems somewhat stable.

Old system currently running:
CUCM 4.2(3)Sr4b (user accounts are integrated with Unity active directory)
Unity 4.0 (windows 2000)
Emergency Responder 1.2

Upgrading to:
CUCM 8.5 or 8.6
Unity connection 8.6
Emergency Responder 8.5

In my opinion, it may be too much of a risk that it could crash the old system by trying to back out of the current AD integration, then exporting data out.  There is no guarantee the export will work, not to mention there is no direct upgrade between CUCM 4.2 and CUCM 8.X, nor is there a direct upgrade from Unity 4 to Unity connection 8.  I also think the same is true for CER.

BTW, we are also planning to do LDAP sync with our domain AD in the new system.

Thoughts?

Regards,
Bill

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