<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">yes, you have to change the Firmware Load on 7.x to be the same as on CM 4.X , this will remove the time needed for the phones to upgrade to a new firmware.<br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 7/20/09, Dennis Heim <i><Dennis.Heim@cdw.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Dennis Heim <Dennis.Heim@cdw.com><br>Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] upgrade 2000 phones at 40 branch through the WAN<br>To: "wael ahmed el mezain" <wael733@hotmail.com>, "cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" <cisco-voip@puck.nether.net><br>Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 2:23 PM<br><br><div id="yiv701529556">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Personally, a day or two prior to the upgrade, I would change
the phone loads on the 4.x cluster to match the load in 7.x… this way you have
one less thing to worry about.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Dennis
Heim<br>
Network Voice Engineer<br>
CDW Advanced Technology Services<br>
11711 N. Meridian Street, Suite 225<br>
Carmel, IN 46032<br>
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317.569.4255 Office<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;">317.569.4201 Fax<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">317.694.6070 Cell</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dennis.heim@cdw.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=dennis.heim@cdw.com" title="mailto:dennis.heim@berbee.com">dennis.heim@cdw.com</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">
cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>wael ahmed el mezain<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 20, 2009 2:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] upgrade 2000 phones at 40 branch through the WAN</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">hello,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">I have client has ccm 4.1
(one Pub - 3 Subs) with about 2000 phones at +40 branch, and going to upgrade
to ccm 7.x</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Most of the remote sites has
1 MB or less (could be 512 or 384) WAN link to the HQ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Is there any problem if we
are going to do the phones upgrade for all the sites at the same time (after
the CCMs upgrades using the DMA tool)?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">I used to get the best
solution from this group; anyone has any suggestion/idea for this case to
decrease the downtime as much as we can with min risk?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Wael Ahmed</span></p>
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