Re: PGP Universal Server 3.1.0

[Josh McCune <mccunej () KSU EDU>]

We have a relatively small install base (about 50 active users) using
only the WDE features running on a single VM in an ESX environment.
We upgraded from 2.12 to 3.0.  Because you can't do an in place
upgrade between major versions, we opted to simply backup the existing
server data and organization key (via the built-in backup tools) and
shut down the server.  We then created a brand new instance of the VM
from scratch and restored the backups.

We modified firewall rules to only allow communication with a range of
test clients, so that if we needed to roll back for any reason, we
would simply shut down the new server an bring the old one back up.
Then to any production clients it would appear as if nothing had
changed other than the server was unavailable for a bit.  This
precaution proved unnecessary as the test clients had no issue
communicating with the new server.

Hope that helps,
Josh McCune
Network Security Analyst
Kansas State University
email: mccunej () ksu edu
voice: (785) 532-2598



On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Youngquist, Jason R.
<jryoungquist () ccis edu> wrote:
> We are currently running PGP Desktop version 10.0 and PGP Universal Server
> 2.12 (primary/secondary cluster) in VMWare.  We are looking to upgrade to
> 3.1.0 and I was wondering if anyone has ran into any problems/issues.
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> Also, when going from one version of PGP Universal Server to another, do you
> test it out in a test environment first?  If so, I’d be interested in how
> you do this in a virtual environment such as VMWare.  We tried it awhile
> ago, and ran into some issues because we didn’t have a test AD server.
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> Please feel free to email me off list.
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> Thanks.
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> Jason Youngquist
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> Information Technology Security Engineer
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> Technology Services
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> Columbia College
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> 1001 Rogers Street, Columbia, MO  65216
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> (573) 875-7334
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> jryoungquist () ccis edu
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> http://www.ccis.edu