Hi All, Sorry for the long post. Totally in over my head here...
We are a small business of 100 users finally getting around to some neeed upgrades. We are an IT staff of 2 and would like suggestions on an upgrade path. Our current environment is as follows:
EV 9 and DA 9 , running on Server 2008 R2, both on same server.
SQL 2008 x64 Standard (NOT R2) on same server.
Exchange 2007, have started upgrade to Exchange 2013.
User access is running Citrix XenApp 5 on Server 2008 x64 using WOW64 (NOT R2), Building new Citrix on Xen Desktop (Win 7) in a few months.
Outlook 2007 on current XenApp with EV 9 Outlook HTTP Add-In
My Managment wants me to get the Exchange 2013 upgrade done in the next few weeks, but I had a couple questions regarding EV.
1) I read though the Compatibility Charts, and everything looks okay to upgrade to a minimum of EV 10. Until I got to the EV Windows Client portion. The Charts indicate the EV 10 client is not compatible with our XenApp since it runs 2008 x64 and not R2. Does that mean that the EV 10 Outlook Add-In will not work either? Is the add-in a different client? I can't upgrade the XenApp Servers to 2008 R2 because of the version of Citrix.
2) What would happen if I leave EV alone at version 9 and just migrate the mailboxes to Exchange 2013? I realize that EV 9 won't archive anything more from the mailboxes until it is upgraded to at least EV 10, but could the clients still access what has already been archived using the Outlook add-in currently in place?
Any other options to consider?
Thanks,
Shawn