Avaya IP Office Software Upgrade Policy changes effective 15 September 16

[ChrisBoos]

Hi all,

I like to add an additional Licensing change in the latest 8.1 release of 25 september:


Note: An IP Office 8.0 system with Essential Edition functioning but not enabled with the
required Essential Edition license key will have all telephony functionality disabled after
the 8.1 upgrade. It is important to verify the license information prior to upgrading. If
Essential Edition is not visible in the license summary, an Essential Edition license must
be purchased and installed prior to attempting the 8.1 upgrade.

What does this exactly mean?
For example:

A customer upgraded to 8.0 have automatically received the “Virtual Essential Edition license” this allows the customer to run the essential edition of the IP-Office, does the above note tells us that when they upgrade to the latest 8.1 release they need to Buy the Essential Edition license?

Also what does Avaya mean with “the license summary”?

 

[yankblan]

I have an 8.0 with essential licence started this week, and after reading this thread 3 times and the KB bulletins over and over, still can't figure out if I should upgrade to 8.1 or if I'll have a bad "licence needed" surprise on the next reboot.

I'm turning the corner on this product (starting to like it a bit), but the software mess and broken features are getting on my nerves.

 

[DrDrayAvaya]

so there are two different essential edition licenses...
1. virtual essential
2. actual essential edition...

our disti tech asked us to downgrade a brand new box from 8.0 back to 7.0 (without making any calls on it, hence not starting the clock on the 90 days.
at 7.0 we made a call on it, which started the timer, then upgraded to 8.1.
this generated the virtual essential edition license, and system is running OK at 8.1, no warnings, license is noted as valid. maybe at 90 days it'll stop!? I'll let you know! ha.

when doing the upgrades, the validation is what i believe to be the first column (required) column in the upgrade wizard.
when it reads 0 required, it means that the first call hasn't been made on the system, when 255, it has had a call made on it. does that change the rules somehow? I haven't had enough time/ or new systems to trial and error.

Anyone know the real/official story here?

We're getting the essential edition license included free from our disti at the moment in any case, but the site above i hadn't recieved the licensing in time before install, so had to try the downgrade trick. will update if it stops!