Support for Exchange 2013 CU1....CU2
We are planning on a exchange 2013 upgrade in the very near future. I just read the above which states cu1 is not supported (as of 7/3/2013) in a mixed environment. We will need to run 2007 and 2013 for approx one to two weeks before removing 2007. Does the above mean we can no longer upgrade to 2013 until EV supports CU1? CU2 was just released.... The compatbility charts never mentioned cu1 as a seperate exchange version until last week.
Please advice - are we stopped dead in our tracks as far as the exchange 2013 upgrade is concerned. Was it only last week that they announced no support for mixed environments running exchange 2013 cu1?
- Based on that technote and the compatibility charts, it would seem that your environment would not be supported, your best bet is to talk to your sales rep or RPM if you have access to them and see what the roadmap is like to have that environment supported
This is the blog entry referred to above:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/enterprise-vault-support-exchange-server-2013-cu1
Due to lots of questions recently I wanted to clarify Enterprise Vault support for Exchange Server 2013 CU1:
- Enterprise Vault 10.0.3 or later supports Exchange Server 2013 CU1 in native mode only. This means that only Exchange Server 2013 servers exist in the Exchange organisation.
- Enterprise Vault 10.0.3 or later does not yet support Exchange Server 2013 CU1 in a mixed mode environment. This means that Exchange 2007 or 2010 servers also exist in the Exchange organisation.
We are working on mixed mode support for CU1 however there are some technical challenges which we are working through with Microsoft. We anticipate being able to support CU1 in mixed mode in the coming weeks and this blog will be updated once more is known around these timescales.
It is worth noting that with Exchange 2013 CU2 currently in TAP we do not anticipate future Exchange CU’s requiring this kind of effort to support however as with every Exchange release our extensive testing regime ensures we catch these issues early rather than in customers production environments. CU1 is unique in that it has modified how partner solutions, such as Enterprise Vault, must connect to end-users mailboxes and this is what we are working through with Microsoft.
Once again, we’ll post back here once we have firm timescales for CU1 in mixed mode support. In the meantime feel free to reach out to me either privately or on the comments section of this blog with questions/concerns.
By the way, this same information is also available in the following technote:http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC6602
