[cisco-voip] The Unified Communications Sizing Tool

[Wes Sisk]

Hello Sourav and Peter,

I am still chasing down a group who can speak to these issues. So far I've received the following:

"There is no OS requirement for the tool to run.

MS Office must be 2007 or later and 32 bit.
User must have latest service pack for MS Office installed, otherwise they are very likely to experience issues (such as those described below)."

When I find an owner would you be willing to work with them to provide your feedback and diagnose these issues?

Regards,
Wes

On Feb 23, 2013, at 1:20 PM, "sourav" <itguy07 at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Peter/Members,

I'm facing the same problem,I tried windows7/excel2007
,winxp/excel2007...the application starts opening excel then crashes..
If any workaround/matrix...

Thanks,
Sourav


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Peter Slow
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 3:59 AM
To: cisco voip
Subject: [cisco-voip] The Unified Communications Sizing Tool

I'm interested to hear other people's thoughts. IMHO it seems like
this was much, much more functional as a web application where I could
save things with my CCO id and pull them up on other peoples machines
with the only requirement being a functional web browser. (And maybe
the JRE, which im _assuming_ was necessary.)

Why did this change?

Dear PDI Helpdesk,
This really seems like a silly thing to make into a standalone
application. This is an important tool that I have to use for various
sizing applications. NOW It runs only on windows, which really doesn't
hold the same market share that it used to. The webpage states that
mac users can use it too, we just need a VM and best buy near us so we
can go grab the latest version of office for windows.

...speaking of which, that didn't work, though now I own two versions
of Office. The webpage only seems to say that the minimum requirements
are windows 2000 and excel 2007 or greater.

specifically, the webpage states "Minimum System Requirements for the
downloadable tools: Windows 2000 (running on PC or VM on a MAC),
Microsoft Excel 2007. Note: If using Microsoft Office 2010 or above,
the x32 bit version is required. The tool will not run with x64 bit
version." (Also, when you install the program to see what happens
sans-excel, it tells you you need excel 2000. not 2007. It doesn't
work with office/excel 2000, despite saying thats the required version
in the error popup.)


The release notes, located at
http://tools.cisco.com/cucst/help/unifiedCSTrn.pdf do not contain ANY
OS compatibility info for the tool itself. At all. In the release
notes.
The user guide, located at
http://tools.cisco.com/cucst/help/ucst_ug.pdf touts that

"The benefits provided by the Unified Communications ST to Cisco,
partners, and resellers include the following:
. A single sizing tool that assists users sizing large and complex
Unified Communications and Unified Contact Center systems
   <<<<---No longer correct, now there are four to choose from.
. Sizing for new deployments as well as upgrades to existing systems,
starting with Cisco Unified Communications System Release 5.1
<<<<---No longer correct, now the different versions (of tool) support
different. revs of CUCM.
. Accurate sizing to lessen deployment risk
. Visibility into system capacity
. Sizing tool accounts for how configurations for one product impact
the capacity of other products in the system          << ...Aren't
some of those systems in other tools now? this seems false.
. Support for the full suite of enterprise Unified Communications
products.
      <<<<---This appears to re-iterate #1. *
. Accessible free-of-charge at any time from most web browsers without
special software installation or plug-ins           <<<<---No longer
correct.

The training and overview slides off CCO at
http://tools.cisco.com/cucst/help/Unified_CST_85_Overview.ppt don't
even address the version currently released.

The most recent combo i tried was WinXP SP3  w/ excel 2k7 update 1.
The tool starts up, then crashes. the "ruin my afteroon along with
productivity" feature works flawlessly.

What are most people running this tool on? anyone running it on WinXP?

-Pete

PS> *I'm sorry, this didn't belong in the "work part" of my email, but
is too hard to pass up. Regarding that second to last bullet up above,
congrats on having full support for your own products. That is totally
bragging-rights-worthy.
PPS> Is this app going to update itself to the newest version all the
time? because that would be another annoying thing on my machine
updating in the background. Or maybe ill just have to always make sure
i download the newest version, oh wait, that sounds annoying too...

</rantwhinemoan>

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