<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><br>Thanks Matthew. <div><br></div><div>I'm hoping we'll be able to work our way through this one. While I don't suspect it wouldn't work, it's about Day 2, and applying service updates, etc. How will that change things? It means a lot more testing on our part. I wish they would test a few more things, or have an option to get special approval. Even if we had to pay for it. It might be worth it.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, Lelio</div><div><br></div><div><div><span name="x"></span>---<br>Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>Senior Analyst, Network Infrastructure<br>Computing and Communications Services (CCS)<br>University of Guelph<br><br>519‐824‐4120 Ext 56354<br>lelio@uoguelph.ca<br>www.uoguelph.ca/ccs<br>Room 037, Animal Science and Nutrition Building<br>Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Matthew Loraditch" <MLoraditch@heliontechnologies.com><br><b>To: </b>"Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio@uoguelph.ca>, "Cisco VOIP" <cisco-voip@puck.nether.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, March 24, 2015 10:54:54 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>RE: [cisco-voip] Collaboration Suite v9 with AD2008 with AD2012 schema update (mixed mode)<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">As a guy with plenty of AD experience, I can tell you, you aren’t going to have a problem with this. My internal systems were running this way at some point.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The Cisco BUs however are very cautious with this kind of thing and won’t list it unless they test it.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The only time this could ever come up is if you somehow have an AD synchronization issue, Cisco points the finger at AD and then you have to say you are syncing
with 2012 servers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">It’s a risk calculation you have to make.</span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lelio Fulgenzi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 24, 2015 10:35 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] Collaboration Suite v9 with AD2008 with AD2012 schema update (mixed mode)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Hi everyone,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Our identity management team has asked about running our AD in mixed mode, which would allow them to have 2012 controllers along with 2008 controllers. However,
this requires the 2008 controllers to have the 2012 schema updates applied.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The data sheets show only AD 2008 support, and nothing about mixed mode support. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I've got a call into our account team to try and see what support options (if any) are available, but I wanted to ask the list about this.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Is anyone out there running v9 software, e.g. CUCM, Connection, CUPS/IM&P, etc, and synchronizing/authenticating against a mixed mode AD environment, specifically
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Was anyone able to get "engineering approval" or whatever they call special approval for special configs for this?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks!</span></p>
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Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>
Senior Analyst, Network Infrastructure<br>
Computing and Communications Services (CCS)<br>
University of Guelph<br>
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519</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">824</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">4120
Ext 56354<br>
<a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca" target="_blank">lelio@uoguelph.ca</a><br>
<a href="http://www.uoguelph.ca/ccs" target="_blank">www.uoguelph.ca/ccs</a><br>
Room 037, Animal Science and Nutrition Building<br>
Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1</span></p>
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