Upgrade path to EV 9.03
hello all. thanks for taking the time to read and help...
i am a noob to EV and the first task ive been given is to get EV ready for Exchange 2010...thus i will need to upgrade; we are currently running on 8.0. I have been reading the upgrade guide and we have multiple servers. 1 for Exchange vault mail. 1 for discovery accelerator. 1 for File share and sharepoint. In the guide it doesnt say what goes first ..if any. And from looking at the upgrade path for DA it first needs to be on SP5. Do all the servers need SP5 or just the DA? And for the 9.03 upgrade what server goes first or do I have to run them at the same time? here is my breakdown from the upgrade guide. Please provide feedback and recommendations. Thank you again for the time and effort.
- -Where do I find the WatchFile tables and JournalArchive tables?
They're in the Vault Store Databases (such as EVVSMyStore)
you would just do a simple
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM EVVSMyStore.dbo.WatchFile
and SELECT COUNT(*) FROM EVVSMyStore.dbo.JournalArchive WHERE BackupComplete = 0-stopping SQL management studios on the EV servers itself? correct?Just closing the SQL Management Studio should be good enough, but what can happen is if you do a query against a database and don't close the studio, then you may find that the upgrade will error out, because it needs to put the database in to single user mode, which it can't do with open connections running against it-so it doesnt matter which server I start first as long as the Discovery server is up to SP5 ...anyone of them could be first.To be honest I would do the upgrade at the point where legal teams know that the upgrades are going to mean the Discovery Accelerator services will not be available to use, and get them all upgraded in a straight shot... concentrate on getting EV server upgraded and functional first, and then upgrade your DA to 8 SP5 then to 9 SP3, and make sure you install the EV9 SP3 binaries on that DA server also.-SP5 upgrade...anything special about that?None that i'm aware of-lastly any changes for end users? new client? or agents that need to be installed on Exchange for OWA? or SharePoint?Clients are recommended to be upgraded but you can take your time distributing the new client, its just that the new clients fix a lot of known issues and what not, if i were you I would be tempted to have everyone on the unified 10 SP1 client rather than the other clients in EV9.
But if the client stays on EV8 SP3 and you're on EV9 SP3 on the server, nothing is going to fail or break necessarily
OWA and Sharepoint will definitely need to have the extensions and webparts upgraded