Server Edition Expansion back to Standard

[csdav1s]

Looking for advice from anyone who has done this. I have a customer who sold off a piece of their business and now needs to convert a site back to standard mode with preferred license. I get the licence and voicemail part but having trouble with the ipo config. In my tests I default the box but then as soon as I try and load the config it flips it back into Server Expansion mode.

 

[derfloh]

I would think, that Initial Configuration Utility within Manager would be able to convert the box to a standard IPO. You should also delete the security settings.

Don't know if you will perhaps need an upgrade license because the box isn't new anymore.

 

[csdav1s]

Let me rephrase. I can absolutely default the box and initialize the config and start over. The question I need answered is there a way to retain the config but change the mode back to standard. I have tried several different ways and it seems that no matter what I try, either exporting the whole config to a csv and then importing to defaulted box or sending a backed up .cfg to the defaulted box it keeps flipping it back to an expansion. I want to retain all the ICR,User Rights, and various other settings that only using an entire config will cover...

 

[tlpeter]

There is no way to retain the config.
You have to default the IPO.


BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

 

[csdav1s]

I know I have to default the IPO but after that I want to be able to load an edited version of the expansion config. What I've done is open the configuration.csv in a text editor (not excel) and changed the SY_OperationMode from a 10 to 3. This allowed me to import the config back into manager and make the necessary changes as if it were a standard mode config. My hope is that I'll then be able to import and save this edited config to the defaulted box not loosing any of my ICR, User rights and such.

 

[derfloh]

Keep us in touch. That sounds interesting.