Re: [IMail Forum] Upgrade Suggestions when going from 8.21 to 2006

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For us it went pretty smooth but noticed the following after the upgrade: 1. iadmin and iclient were added but we changed the default folder to point directly at the iclient folder which allowed customers to pull up web messaging without the need of typing in /iclient. Since iadmin is a virtual dir we could still get to that as well. 2, Contacts didn't convert automatically but Eric pointed out that running wgscvt.exe command line resolved that. After a reboot or two the IMAP service somehow got set to manual rather than automatic which caused web messaging to fail logins. Starting IMAP and changing it to automatic resolved that. As I mentioned earlier, keep in mind how busy your server is. Having too much ram isn't a bad thing so think 2 GB's if you can. The last thing is the dictionary attack settings which don't appear to be working beyond the default of a 5 minute setting.   Travis Rabe wrote: Can all of you that upgraded this weekend please send a reply to this post on all recommended KB articles to have in hand prior to the upgrade and after the upgrade?  And can you call give me your input on whether it is worth trying the upgrade now or waiting until the patches start to roll out?  Any gotchas?  Any tricks?   I agree that some hardship is going to be a part of any upgrade – especially one that goes from one technology to another.  Imail and Co. have been great about addressing our issues as of late and I for one am extremely happy to have Kevin, Tripp and Eric in the employ of Ipswitch.  Anytime you have a trio like that (and I apologize if I have left anyone out) it makes our jobs a bit easier.  As easy as it is to jump at them when stuff goes wrong, haven’t we all run into the same thing with Microsoft?  I don’t know about you all but when I run my Windows 2000 and NT to Windows 2003 upgrades with Active Directory – it sucked (from this Friday afternoon to today).  Could I rail the developers and support staff?  Sure, if (a) I could find them and (b) if I thought it would do a darn bit of good.  At least these guys care.   Part of the purpose of this forum is to exchange, complain, suggest and troubleshoot the problems we all run into during the course of our no-two-are-the-same upgrades.   Thanks in advance for all of your replies.   Travis