[cisco-voip] Two Unity Servers One Exchange Server

[Pat Hayes]

The primary location object (which represents the Unity server out in
AD) is not related to the partner Exchange server/store. The field you
are looking at that says 'Unity' is the Destination Type. It says
'Unity' because that is the type of location object it is, one is
created for each Unity server in your AD. It is just a coincidence
that you named your mailstore the same thing. If you want to check
what Exchange server Unity is partnered with, you should run the
Gather Unity System Information (GUSI) tool from Tools Depot. The
partner server will be listed in the output.

Keep in mind that when you use GSM and/or COBRAS for a migration, you
are only changing what Unity server the account is associated with.
You are not moving or deleting the Exchange mailboxes of the users
(unless you are doing that yourself as a separate step), so they will
remain in place and contain any existing messages.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Kevin Dunn <cheesevoice at gmail.com> wrote:
> We have Unity 4 connected to Exchange 2003 and I have a VM of Unity 7 that I
> want to migrate the subscribers to (using GSM and COBRAS).  Both Unity
> servers use the same Exchange server.  I had the systems guys put in a new
> Information Store called Unity7 and the old store is called Unity.
>
> Friday I started moving subs over and it looks like the Unity 7 server is
> using the same information store as Unity 4.  When I look at Primary
> locations under both servers they say the same thing "Unity", but since it
> is the default on Unity 7 I can not change or delete it to add Unity7 as a
> store.  When I try to add additional stores type "unity" is no longer
> available I only have AMIS, trusted internet or VPIM.
>
> Since it is a clean install I don't mind just reloading the Unity 7 server,
> my question is will there be a problem if I don't?
>
> When I moved the test subscriber he had 20 messages after migration he had
> 40 because I imported messages too.  If I just migrate users without
> messages back to the same Information store, I think the messages will keep
> their original date/time stamp AND I can import greetings and recorded names
> and move on.
>
> What caveats are there to trying something like this?  Am I going to hose
> the install later on down the line?
>
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