Partner Mode to Essential Mode

[RingTHIS]

Hello,
Customer has IPO Partner edition installed and working(ah, hem....) and we are now switching them to Essential mode and removing the ETR's a replacing with DS8s. When I convert the IP Office to Essential edition, will I lose my config or will it translate to the new mode?

Thanks in advance.

 

[amriddle01]

It will be wiped, don't you need a different SD card though? I thought they were different (in some way) SD cards for Partner...



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[holdmusic34]

When you create a new config, this is the first question, what mode or configuration the config will be.
You'll have to plan on writing a new config.

 

[RingTHIS]

Ok, I assumed as much but wanted to see if there was a slight chance that I could be lazy on this one. ;o)

Thanks for the feedback.

 

[holdmusic34]

Don't forget that SD card like Amriddle says or it could bite you in the posterior.

 

[RingTHIS]

Won't recreating the SD card take care of things?

 

[Westi]

partner mode and IP Office are 2 different cards so you will need a new SD card

700479728 IPO IP500V2 SYSTEM PARTNER® Version SD CARD PARTNER

700479710 IPO IP500V2 SYSTEM IP Office Essential Edition SD CARD MU-LAW NAR


Joe W.

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[Telecomboy]

I have taken a regular sd card, recreated it, and changed it into a Partner sd card. I asked my distributor prior to doing it and they said it wouldn't be a problem. I know that worked fine as the client has been using Partner Mode for over 6 months with no issues (they wanted the 3920's). I don't know if you could do it the other way (Partner to IPO), but I don't see why not.

 

[sizbut]

The SD card type only really matters if you were to fully default the system in future for some reason. It would go back to Partner mode and need switching to Essential again. But the same applies regardless of the card type, ie. the system starts in one of the basic modes and needs changing to essential mode.

As to the config once you switch to essential, it's best to treat it as a full rewrite. Long time since I did it but there was a route by which the config could be retained. All it did was expose the truely strange shortcodes and routing tweaks that were being used by the system to achieve basic mode - not something you want to maintain.

Stuck in a never ending cycle of file copying.

 

[Greybeard191]

I would also treat this as a full rewrite... there are features within Basic/Partner edition that have no equivalent within essential edition. The translation piece is too painful.

GB