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Upgrade to which version - 8.0 SP5 or 9.0.1?

Brian_Spooner
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Hi,

Our organization is currently running EV 8.0 SP3 for Exchange along with DA 8.0 SP3. This coming up weekend I'll have a maintenance opportunity to upgrade and I'm wondering if I should go the EV 8.0 SP5 route or just go for 9.0.1?

I know the big difference with EV 9.x is Exchange 2010 support. However, we're currently running Exchange 2007 SP2 and Outlook 2007 clients. It's unclear if we're going to upgrade to Exchange 2010 or Outlook 2010. Obviously if we go to Ex2010 I need EV 9.x -- but if we don't and we stay on Ex2007 and Outlook 2007, would EV 9.x play nicely?

Are there many other feature changes between the versions? DA interface is the same?

One of our other goals with the upgrade is to deploy Virtual Vault to all users. Not sure if there are differences between the versions regarding that.

 

Any thoughts, comments or suggestions are appreciated.

 

Thx

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TonySterling
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Since you have the window I would say go to EV 9 if you have the chance.  When EV 10 comes out you will have to be at EV 9 to upgrade to it, so you would be one step closer.  Additionally, if you do go to Exch 2010 you will already be at EV 9 so that would be one less thing to worry about there.

EV 9 will be fine with Exch 2007.  You might want to check the ReadMe for EV 9:

English Release Notes
Enterprise Vault 9.0-   http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC2774
Compliance Accelerator 9.0 -   http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC2775
Discovery Accelerator 9.0 -   http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC2776
Discovery Collector 9.0 - http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC2886

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TonySterling
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Since you have the window I would say go to EV 9 if you have the chance.  When EV 10 comes out you will have to be at EV 9 to upgrade to it, so you would be one step closer.  Additionally, if you do go to Exch 2010 you will already be at EV 9 so that would be one less thing to worry about there.

EV 9 will be fine with Exch 2007.  You might want to check the ReadMe for EV 9:

English Release Notes
Enterprise Vault 9.0-   http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC2774
Compliance Accelerator 9.0 -   http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC2775
Discovery Accelerator 9.0 -   http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC2776
Discovery Collector 9.0 - http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC2886