<div>If your running UM and you want Exchange 2007 you have to upgrade Unity first anyway.... so then you need two people skilled ;-)</div>
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<div>Scott<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Aarons (US)</b> <<a href="mailto:jason.aarons@us.didata.com">jason.aarons@us.didata.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The Exchange 2007 upgrade has it's own caveats, 64-bit hardware, 64-bit<br>OS and migration of mailboxes....either way you need someone skilled!
<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net
</a>] On Behalf Of Rhodes, Geoff<br>Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 11:01 AM<br>To: cisco voip list<br>Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Unity 5 upgrading from Unity 4<br><br>Maybe they don't want us going to Unity 5, instead they want to push us
<br>into using Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging... :)<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">
cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>] On Behalf Of Jonathan<br>Charles<br>Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:18 PM<br>To: Keith Klevenski<br>Cc: cisco voip list<br>Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Unity 5 upgrading from Unity 4
<br><br>That is exactly what I did...<br><br>Then when I went to run the Unity 5 install, it failed saying there was<br>a hostname mismatch... I called TAC, they had no idea what to do and<br>said, 'this should work...' and then refused to support it.
<br><br><br><br>Jonathan<br><br>On 8/23/07, Keith Klevenski <<a href="mailto:keith.klevenski@rig.net">keith.klevenski@rig.net</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>><br>> This does not sound promising as I'm about to embark on the win2k/4.0x
<br><br>> to<br>> win2k3/4.2 to 5.0 myself. I was going to upgrade to to 4.2 first<br>> (since<br>> 4.03sr1 isn't supported on win2k3), dirt backup, install fresh win2k3<br>> install, dirt restore, upgrade to
5.0. This is going to be ugly...<br>><br>> ________________________________<br>> From: <a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a> on behalf of Jonathan<br>> Charles
<br>> Sent: Thu 8/23/2007 6:34 PM<br>> To: Scott Voll<br>> Cc: cisco voip list<br>> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Unity 5 upgrading from Unity 4<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> The Windows issue is the big one I am going to be running into... most
<br><br>> of the people who want to upgrade is because they want Windows 2000<br>> out of their network (that is why they went to CCM5.1, MPX, etc...)<br>><br>> A few customers have Unity 4.2(1) on Win2k3, which means the upgrade
<br>> should be easy, but if they are running Win2K, that means a complete<br>> blow away and start over...<br>><br>> I did one back in July, and it was a nightmare, we ended up abandoning<br><br>> the old system and recreating everything from scratch...
<br>><br>><br>> Jonathan<br>><br>> On 8/23/07, Scott Voll <<a href="mailto:svoll.voip@gmail.com">svoll.voip@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > I'm planning on this upgrade October / Novemberish but have not
<br>> > started<br>> the<br>> > research on it yet. If anyone has any comments I would like to know<br>also.<br>> ><br>> > I don't have the Windows issue as I'm already at windows 2k3 with
<br>> > Exchange<br>> > 2k3 and Unity 4.0.5 UM. I'm hoping upgrading to 5.0 will be a<br>> > little<br>> easier<br>> > then Jonathan is talking about.<br>> ><br>> > Scott<br>> >
<br>> ><br>> > On 8/23/07, Jonathan Charles <<a href="mailto:jonvoip@gmail.com">jonvoip@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > ><br>> > > Has anyone done it successfully?<br>> > ><br>> > > I have a LOT of customers on Unity
4.X running Windows 2000 who<br>> > > want to upgrade to Unity 5 and Windows 2003. However, my first<br>> > > attempt was a complete disaster (ended up having to install from<br>scratch).<br>> > >
<br>> > > Here is the problem:<br>> > ><br>> > > You CANNOT upgrade a Windows 2000 box to Windows 2003 once Unity<br>> > > is installed (says so in the upgrade documentation).<br>> > >
<br>> > > So, you must do a DRT backup, install Windows 2003 clean, install<br>> > > your old version of Unity 4.X and restore it. Then you can upgrade<br><br>> > > to 5<br>> > ><br>> > > This is not even slightly as simple as it sounds and has a
<br>> > > remarkably high failure rate.<br>> > ><br>> > > (we got an error that the hostname didn't match and the upgrade to<br><br>> > > unity<br>> > failed)<br>> > >
<br>> > > TAC refused to support the upgrade (this was early July, it had<br>> > > come off of NPH that day).<br>> > ><br>> > > If anyone has, I am curious as to what tricks you did to make it
<br>work...<br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > ><br>> > > Jonathan<br>> > > _______________________________________________<br>> > > cisco-voip mailing list<br>> > > <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">
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