I need to upgrade my NW environment (rename my NW server, push the new 
name out to the clients, then upgrade the server to 8, which means also 
upgrading 9 storage nodes at the same time). I'm trying to do the rename 
this week, and the upgrade this weekend. Meanwhile, this weekend we will 
be doing maintenance (regular scheduled patching). And we have other fixes 
to do. I don't think I will have enough time to do the rename before this 
weekend. So what I'd like to do is upgrade NW on the storage nodes to NW 8 
this weekend (when the storage nodes are down for patching anyway), and 
that will let me do the rename and actual server upgrade next week, when I 
have more time., (part of the patching process will be to copy over new 
"servers" file, with the new server name in it).

But I need to verify - the storage nodes at NW 8 will work properly with 
my NW 7.6.2 server? All my nodes are AFTD devices, and are all the 
important parts of the production environment (of course!). If I can do it 
this way, it would be a big help. We have all sorts of things to install 
new, patch existing, fix, etc.

Is anybody running a NW 8 storage node to a 7.6.2 server? (or any client, 
really)

Most of my clients at Win2008, and probably won't need a reboot to upgrade 
(uninstall, then install NW 8, is the usual practice, if I remember 
right). That'll be a help, too ...

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Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel:  215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>