Upgrade zimbra from 5.0.6 to 7.2.0

[Lmm]

Hi, there:

What is upgrade path from zimbra 5.0.6 to 7.2.0 community edition?

Thanks for you help.

Lorenzo Massimi

[phoenix]

What is upgrade path from zimbra 5.0.6 to 7.2.0 community edition?

The same as it's always been, run the install script to upgrade you server. I'd suggest you first read the Release Notes and see if there's anything in there that may cause you problems, full upgrade instructions are always included in there. Don't forget to take a suitable backup before any upgrade.

[justinsousa]

Bill, I notice the release notes for 7.2.2 open source edition say "to upgrade from 6.0.x to 7.2.x ...", whereas the release notes for 7.1.4 and below include "5.0.x" in their list. I am merely upgrading from 5.0.18 to some version of 7, any advice on which version of 7 will be the most trouble free in this case? Perhaps this is why the original poster was unsure of the upgrade path, due to the omission of 5.0.x in the 7.2.0 release notes. Thanks and thank you for the work on the forums, I have referred to them many times and rarely don't find a reply that solves the problem! -Justin

[justinsousa]

Upgrade directly from 5.0.18 to 7.1.4 went very smoothly. Good job Zimbra engineers! <3

[Lmm]

justinsousa:

¡Thanks for your help! I did my upgrade smoothly.

LMM

[justinsousa]

Glad to hear it LMM. If any of your web client users complain about the fonts in the message list looking bad, refer to this article: Zimbra 7 Web Client Font Problem. From it I used this part


edit the file: /opt/zimbra/jetty-6.1.22.z6/webapps/zimbra/skins/_base/base2/skin.properties

in the fonts section, look for the line that reads: FontFamily-default =
and change the font chain to something normal. (I used "tahoma, geneva, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif")

then run the command:
zmprov flushCache skin

For Zimbra Desktop users, edit the windows file:
c:/program files/zimbra/Zimbra Desktop/jetty/webapps/zimbra/skins/_base/base2/skin.properties

edit default font line:
FontFamily-default = font-family:tahoma, geneva, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;