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Re: Current Versions



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I am curious about some of your statements.

First, license file.
I have a dev/test zimbra install, that is very similar to my
production install.  I've done the 8.0.6->8.6.0 upgrade there without
a problem, and my license file worked.  I renewed my license in June.
 Do you think its possible that the newly renewed license is already
compatible with 8.6.0?

Second, libreoffice.  I did not install this, nor have any issues with
it being required, when I did my dev upgrade. Do you have some zimlet
added or something, that requires this?

Thanks!


On 08/17/2015 11:40 AM, Pablo E Garaitonandia wrote:
> Hurstel, I did not encounter any issues with the transition to
> MariaDB.  I can tell you this, since this is a major upgrade for
> you I would plan on it taking a long time, depending on how fast
> your disk is, number of users, and how beefy your virtual machines
> are. My installation took about 6 hours. The installation scripts
> make quite a lot of changes to the database and it does it one
> mboxgroup at a time. So it is very time consuming. Also make sure
> that you get a new license from your sales guy. 8.6.0 and up
> require new licenses. Some other things:
> 
> 1) Install Libre Office on your message store otherwise you will
> get a missing package error half way through the installation.
> 
> yum install -y libreoffice libreoffice-headless
> 
> For more info 
> https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/High_Fidelity_Document_Preview
> 
> Note it will check for these packages half way through the
> installation. It will not check at the beginning of the
> installation like other required packages.
> 
> 
> 2) During my installation I had issues with the installation script
> not liking my new license. I had to upgrade my message stores with
> the license activation check disabled. At one point on one of my
> message stores upgrades stopped the installation and prompted me
> for a license file. I pointed it to the correct license file and
> the installation still did not like it but it continued with the
> installation.  In the end I just uploaded the file to the admin
> console and that worked out fine. Not a big deal but when you are
> in the middle of an upgrade these little surprises can startle you.
> 
> 
> 3) After the upgrade we had a lot of complaints from users about
> the name completion in the compose window in the web ui. In 8.0.X
> when you start typing a name in the "To" field you can hit tab for
> it to do the name completion. In 8.6.0 you have to hit enter. I
> know we are splitting hairs at that point but  a lot of users did
> not like that change. I still find myself hitting tab :)
> 
> 4) Test the zimbra connector for outlook before upgrading. We have
> had mixed reports about it crashing outlook to working just fine,
> especially with Windows 10. It all depends on your version of
> Office, 32 bit or 64 bit,  and your Windows 10 build.
> 
> 5) The new windows 10 browser does not work with the web interface.
> The web ui is unusable with that browser.
> 
> 
> I hope this helps. Best of luck.
> 
> Regards, Pablo Garaitonandia Penn State University ITS,
> Administrative Information Services (814) 865-6385 pablo@psu.edu
> 
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*From: *"Hurstel Howard" <hhoward@aurora.edu>
> *To: *"Pablo E Garaitonandia" <peg11@psu.edu> *Cc:
> *"zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca> *Sent: *Friday,
> August 14, 2015 1:20:48 PM *Subject: *Re: Current Versions
> 
> Pablo,
> 
> Thanks for the information.  We are leaning towards waiting for 8.7
> or later. Also did you encounter any issues upgrading the backend
> to Mariadb?
> 
> Hurstel
> 
> 
> 
> Hurstel Howard Senior Director Enterprise Architecture Aurora
> University (630) 844-4889 <callto:%28630%29%20844-7519> 
> hhoward@aurora.edu
> 
> 
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*From: *"Pablo E Garaitonandia" <peg11@psu.edu>
> *To: *"Hurstel Howard" <hhoward@aurora.edu> *Cc:
> *"zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca> *Sent: *Friday,
> August 7, 2015 7:46:22 AM *Subject: *Re: Current Versions
> 
> I just upgraded to 8.6.0 from 8.0.8 on Saturday. I noticed that the
> web interface look and feel did not change much, but when I changed
> themes to another and then back I noticed more of a change. It
> looks cleaner. Two things that were noticed by my end users:
> 
> 1) "Show BCC" when composing moved. It is now in the "options" menu
> when composing. 2) When you paste a URL into the compose window it
> does not seem like it is creating a link for you but when you
> examine the message  in the "sent"  folder it indeed does create a
> link.
> 
> 
> Also during my testing I ran into this bug even on patch 3.
> 
> https://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=98079 
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> 
> 
> After the upgrade we ran into this bug
> 
> https://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=97002 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__bugzilla.zimbra.
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>  A patch (p4) is supposed to be coming out at the end of this
> month. It addresses this issue.
> 
> 
> Test your custom zimlets thoroughly. Some of our custom zimlets
> seemed to have been working fine initially after the upgrade, but
> because I did not test them thoroughly the end users discovered
> that they broke.
> 
> ZCS 8.7 is scheduled to come out mid September. Holding off may be
> worth while.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards, Pablo Garaitonandia Penn State University ITS,
> Administrative Information Services (814) 865-6385 pablo@psu.edu
> 
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*From: *"Hurstel Howard" <hhoward@aurora.edu>
> *To: *"zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca> *Sent:
> *Thursday, August 6, 2015 12:50:55 PM *Subject: *Current Versions
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We are still using ZCS 8.0.x for Zimbra.  I was wondering if most
> people out there are using 8.5 now?  Also if anybody upgraded from
> 8 to 8.5, did anyone's user community experience any drastic
> changes with the web interface?
> 
> 
> Hurstel
> 
> 
> Hurstel Howard Senior Director Enterprise Architecture Aurora
> University (630) 844-4889 <callto:%28630%29%20844-7519> 
> hhoward@aurora.edu
> 
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