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Re: 6.0.4 upgrade done
Thank you for letting us know how it went for you. We are planning to upgrade our install in a few days, and while our testing showed no major problems, these things are never worry free. All in all sounds like your experience wasn't to bad.
Vlad Gabrielescu
Rutgers University OIT/CSS, vgabriel@oit.rutgers.edu, 732-445-4785
----- "Rich Graves" <rgraves@carleton.edu> wrote:
> From: "Rich Graves" <rgraves@carleton.edu>
> To: "zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:04:03 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: 6.0.4 upgrade done
>
> So, we did the 6.0.4 upgrade for our 3000 users on December 19th. At
> the same time, I upgraded from RHEL 4.8 to RHEL 5.4.
>
> So far, so good. While we won't really know until students return next
> Monday, CPU/RAM/IO utilization appears about the same.
>
> Anticipated annoyances:
>
> - Child accounts are unavailable until at least 6.0.5. We went back
> to the earlier solutions they disliked: Shared passwords/multiple
> browsers for resource accounts, and shared folders/personas for email
> and calendars. Help desk is unwilling to read up on the new
> delegation/forwarding features intended to address boss/secretary
> relationships.
>
> - The new IM status bar takes up too much space, so we've turned IM
> off in the default CoS and enabled it only for people who were
> actively using webmail IM under 5.x
>
> - About a dozen of our 90-some Outlook users with very large
> mailboxes had badly corrupted profiles that needed to be rebuilt. This
> sometimes happened during minor 5.x upgrades too. Or during normal
> operation, so I'm not blaming the upgrade.
>
> Things we hadn't counted on:
>
> - One user has lost admin rights to half of her shared calendars in
> Zimbra web client, even though zmmailbox and her own
> Preferences->Sharing show the admin rights correctly. Support case
> 00047690.
>
> - For a handful of Outlook users, GAL entries were duplicated.
> Manually forcing a GAL sync resolved the problem.
>
> - Filter rules now apply to POP/IMAP mail fetched from accounts
> specified in Preferences->Mail->Accounts. To keep POPped mail in the
> intended download folder, it might be necessary to define a rule
>
> - About 10 people (more than expected) were using the obscure ". 1"
> keyboard shortcuts feature described at
> http://testzimbra.com/zimbra/help/en_US/advanced/Userspecific/Using_Shortcuts_to_navigate.htm.
> The custom folder shortcuts feature was removed in 6.0, superseded by
> a generic "mm" shortcut. Use Control-Q to get a context-sensitive list
> of the latest shortcuts. There is an RFE to restore the old feature.
> http://www.zimbra.com/forums/users/32544-assign-numeric-shortcuts-6-a.html
>
> - While several users (and our tests) are working, a couple users
> with MacOS Leopard are failing to connect with iCal. Error: "HTTP/1.1
> 400 Bad Request" to operation CalDAVAccountRefreshQueuableOperation
>
> - The Yahoo Emoticons zimlet has created in some users an expectation
> of WYSIWYG smilies. They get an email from a GMail user with embedded
> smilies and don't understand why the same thing doesn't work with
> Zimbra. (GMail embeds smiley GIFs.)
> --
> Rich Graves http://claimid.com/rcgraves
> Carleton.edu Sr UNIX and Security Admin
> CMC135: 507-222-7079 Cell: 952-292-6529