Upgrade Unity to 5 or 7? 1

[prizm76]

We're currently looking to upgrade our Unity version from 4.0(5) so we can upgrade exchange to 2007. Would it just be better to go all the way to 7 or should we just go to 5?

From all the upgrade documentation I've seen I can't see why we wouldn't just go to 7 but I figured it may be beneficial to ask the community to see what kind of experiences everyone had. We have call manager 4.1.3 and a single Unity server.

Any input is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[whykap]

Unity is a very mature product so going to 7 should not be an issue. If you are going to upgrade go all the way to 7 and you'll be at the latest version.

 

[prizm76]

Yea, from what I've read 7 is just some additional features.

However, I did find out that clustering for Exchange 07 is not supported yet in Unity 7. It seems like support will be added but I was unable to find a date as to when that will happen.

 

[whykap]

You saying that unity 5 supports exchange 07 clustering but not unity 7?
I can't imagine that they released a version with less capability that an earlier one. I'll have to research that for sure.

 

[prizm76]

Yea, it is weird. Here's the thread on the Cisco forums where they discuss it.

http://forums.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf?page=netprof&forum=Unified

Communications and Video&topic=Unified Communications Applications&topicID=.ee835d2&CommCmd=MB?cmd=pass_through&location=outline@^1@@.2cc0bfdd/4#selected_message

 

[whykap]

Very interesting. Great info thanks!

 

[AuditSimon]

We had our Cisco Systems engineer in the other day and raised this point about Unity 7 not supporting clustered Exchange environments. He said that there would be a "patch" out before Christmas or very early in the new year at the latest. Worth keeping your eyes open for.