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Stupid Server Edition

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Pepp77

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So I am in Romania this weekend upgrading a company that had 3 x IP500v2 in an SCN (2 in Romania and 1 in London) to a server edition with primary and secondary and then they are keeping the IP500s as ISDN expansion modules.

Everything has gone well, but I found a really annoying thing that I thought I would share.

I spent time taking the IP500s configs and amending the line group IDs so that there were no 0s and each sites ISDN had unique Line groups. Then I programmed the DDIs onto the new line groups and ensured only the 2 or 3 analogue devices were created as users in each IP500, and adding the correct licences (following all the swaps).

What I discovered was that when I added it as an expansion unit to the server edition it created everything it should do correctly (ie it amended the shortcodes to delete all the extra ones and added the SCN lines with the correct line group IDs), but I noticed that it also did the following stupid things (and it did it on all 3 IP500s when they were added).

Deleted all users.
Deleted the programmed ICR and replaced it with the ICR from the server edition.
Removed all the licences.
Amended my 9N shortcode to a 9? shortcode.

How annoying, especially as there were about 300 DDIs in total to program that I could add via MSN but then still had to go through and add all the destinations and tags as they all point to an ACCS and not users!!

Anyway thats my little rant over.

| ACSS SME |
 
Export and change it and then import. Much quicker.
And yes that is bloody annoying.

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!
 
I have never had any luck with doing an import of a configuration spreadsheet into an IPO, so now never use it.

| ACSS SME |
 
Just recently did a IPO 500v2 to SE migration. When you run the initialization tool to convert the stand-alone 500 into an expansion there is a check box to retain programming. It will still mess up some things (user rights and time profiles IIRC) but the ICRs and users stick around.

-Qz
 
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