Planning your Mediasite 5.1 or 5.

2 upgrade

Timing and resources Mediasite platform assessment

Have you selected your upgrade date?
What version is your current
• What days of the week are best for upgrading? Mediasite platform?
• Should the upgrade take place during off-hours? (Upgrading from 4.x is slightly different than
upgrading from 5.0.x. Contact Sonic Foundry to
• What is your contingency plan?
learn more.)

How much downtime is acceptable Do you want or need to upgrade

during your upgrade? your server hardware or software?
(See requirements.)
Does your existing Mediasite
instance need to be active during Do you want to change your current
the upgrade? Mediasite deployment model?
• Two-server model?
Who will perform your Mediasite • Three-server model?
upgrade? • High availability model?
• In-house staff?
• Sonic Foundry?
Do you need parallel hardware to

minimize downtime during your
Are the necessary staff/resources upgrade?
impacted by the upgrade available • If so, do you have a large number of users in your
Mediasite Directory? (Ask Sonic Foundry about
during the upgrade period?
directory impacts when upgrading from 4.x.)
• Your Mediasite administrator?
• Your system or network administrator? Are your Mediasite Recorders
• Your course/learning management system compatible with 5.1 or 5.2?
administrator? (See requirements.)

• Others responsible for systems impacted by Is your current Mediasite content

the upgrade? compatible with 5.1 or 5.2?
(See requirements.)
Do you need permission from your
database administrator to modify Are users in your organization
the Mediasite database? permitted to download the
(Ask Sonic Foundry about database impacts
Silverlight® plug-in?
when upgrading from 5.0.x.)
(See requirements.)

Do you use Mediasite scheduling?

Do you have your Mediasite (Ask Sonic Foundry about scheduling impacts
logins and passwords? when upgrading from 4.x.)
 Do you have a trusted certificate to use
with SSL? Mediasite Recorder


(ask Sonic Foundry about the use of certificates when
upgrading from 5.0.x)
requirements
• RL440 Recorder or later
Is your current Mediasite presentation • ML440 Recorder or later
data backed up? A note about Recorder upgrades: Once your Mediasite Server is
upgraded, any Mediasite Recorders running recorder software 4.x
must be upgraded to recorder software 5.0.x or later. Recorders will
Post-upgrade considerations also need to be re-registered to your new 5.1 or 5.2 EX Server.

Will you train your end users on the

new version? If so, who will provide Mediasite Player
the training? requirements
Will you train your administrators on • For Windows

the new version? If so, who will provide - Microsoft® Windows XP, Windows 2003 or
Windows Vista
the training?
- Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 or later, Firefox® 2.0 or later,
or Google™ Chrome 1.0
Who will provide support assistance
- Windows Media® Player 9.0 or later
for your users after the upgrade?
- Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 or later, if using Mediasite’s
new Silverlight Players

Mediasite EX Server - Broadband Internet connection (256Kbps or more)

requirements • For Macs

- Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
• Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 or 2008 - Safari™ 2.0.4 or later or Firefox 2.0 or later
• CPU: 2 x Dual Core Intel Xeon 5130 processor (2GHz, 1333MHz FSB) - Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 or later if using Mediasite’s
• RAM: 2GB 667 MHz new Silverlight Players or Silverlight 1.0 or later if
• RAID storage configuration and redundant power supplies using Mediasite’s classic Players
recommended - Broadband Internet connection (256Kbps or more)
• Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 • For Linux
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, openSUSE 11.0
• ASP.NET or later, Ubuntu 8.04, or Fedora Core 9
• Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 or later (for Mediasite Management Portal - Firefox 2.0 or 3.0 depending on Linux
and Mediasite Catalog) operating system
• Microsoft FTP Services or third party Secure FTP server - Moonlight™ 1.0
• Microsoft Active Directory or LDAP-compatible directory (if not - Microsoft Media Pack for Moonlight
using Mediasite-integrated ADAM directory) - Broadband Internet connection (256Kbps or more)
A note about content migration: For presentations recorded with Mediasite 4.x,
the media files will need to be re-processed with the Mediasite Migration Toolkit to
be 5.1 or 5.2 compatible. You should consider the time needed to migrate media files For Windows Media Server and Mediasite database server
in the upgrade process. (Media files from 5.0.x content do not need to be migrated.) requirements, refer to the Mediasite Server Deployment Guide.

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