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3300 Upgrade Question Survey

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shawnb345

Technical User
Dec 30, 2006
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Hello,
I am taking a survey on the 3300 upgrade:
Question is: Do you do your own upgrades OR have your Provider do them for you.

 
I am the provider. When discussing upgrades with my customers I always allow them the choice. Typically, I ask them to observe an upgrade before trying one themselves. Very few ever want to take the responsibility on for themselves. I can only remember 1 that has ever done it unsupervised.

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Occam's Razor - All things being equal, the simplest solution is the right one.
 
Ty... due to the economy, it is an option we have asked our provider. We ALWAYS do everything before our stores open.. Since that is Overtime rate, i just wanted to see if other were taking this approach. ty
 
Be Cautious.

Upgrades are not an exact science. Things can and do go wrong. When they do, you may not have the skill to recover. Over 90% of my upgrades are successful without issues.

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Occam's Razor - All things being equal, the simplest solution is the right one.
 
If customer wants to do their own upgrades that is fine but support if something goes wrong is on a time and material basis.
 
I do everything myself as an end user. Normally it takes carefull planing, reading ALL release notes and available KB, obtaining all the licenses, making backups (I make one before I proceed and one during the process), creating plan B and plan C. Due the fact that some of releases will upgrade boot loaders it is possible that system will not boot after the procedure, so it would be nice to have a spare motherboard or bare hardware controller handy.

Normally your Provider will have all this said above and have done the procedure at least in the lab environment and at least once. Plus they have an option to contact Mitel support directly and resolve complex problems right on the spot.

Now it is up to you to measure risks to destroy your business communication system for unpredictable amount of time or let your VAR to deal with all problems within scheduled downtime.
 
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