Justin,

Thanks for the insight. Was this a straight-up upgrade rather than an
cobras import? I'm starting to think I need to scrap the idea of using
cobras and do a swing server/"normal" instead if this turns out to be the
issue.


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Justin Steinberg <jsteinb...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Just went back through my notes for that upgrade and it was a 7.1.3 to
> 8.6.2 upgrade.
>
> Just speculating, but maybe the users that were impacted by my upgrade had
> last changed their pin on 7.0x.
> On Mar 3, 2014 11:12 PM, "Justin Steinberg" <jsteinb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I ran into this issue once and tracked it down to the time when the user
>> had last changed/set their pin.  In my situation only about 20% of the
>> users were affected. The other 80% were fine.
>>
>> I tracked the issue down by running a user data dump, and all the users
>> that had reported the problem had the last pin changed time of much older
>> than everyone else.  In my case, the authentication rules on this system
>> did not expire the pins, so some users had the same pins for years.
>>
>> Instead of rolling back, I opted to run a bulk pin reset to the default
>> for these users and then sent a mass email to all of them telling them that
>> their PIN had been reset.
>>
>> If you don't expire your pins this might be your problem.  While I didn't
>> try this, you could go into the current 7 system and set the password
>> policy to force users to change their pin on the next login and let
>> everyone update their pin before you run the upgrade again.
>>
>> I believe the aggravating factor is that the users in question last
>> changed their pin on an older version of connection that used a different
>> encryption type, that is not supported by v9.
>> On Mar 3, 2014 8:57 PM, "Bill Talley" <btal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I interpreted the issue as being from or to version 7.0 as it also
>>> suggests upgrading to 7.1.3 prior (IIRC) to using COBRAS.
>>>
>>> Sent from an Apple iOS device with very tiny touchscreen input keys.
>>> Please excude my typtos.
>>>
>>> > On Mar 3, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Ed Leatherman <ealeather...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hello!
>>> >
>>> > This weekend I exported some voice mail accounts from Connection 7.0.2
>>> and imported them into 9.1(2) using COBRAS tool.
>>> >
>>> > When I did this, the users were not able to sign into their mailbox,
>>> as if PIN was changed.
>>> >
>>> > Retracing my steps, I did have this in the COBRAS log during the
>>> import:
>>> > [Thread 001], [14/03/02 08:51:34],         Updating subscriber phone
>>> PIN from Connection backup
>>> > [Thread 001], [14/03/02 08:51:34], (warning) unable to find mapping
>>> for MDBObjectId=051ee60c-4e21-42f6-bea4-9f845e6e96c8,
>>> ObjectType=CredentialPolicy in GetNewObjectId on
>>> DirectoryBackupDatabaseFunctions.cs
>>> >
>>> > Unfortunately I had did not have a whole lot of time to troubleshoot
>>> on live 9.1 server - weather emergency dictated that I swing them back the
>>> 7.0 version asap so that users could update various greetings and info
>>> prompts. Right now i'm working with the 9.1 VM in a isolated network.
>>> >
>>> > My hypothesis is that the old system had PIN set to not expire, and
>>> the new system has PIN set to expire in 120 days - and this somehow caused
>>> the PIN to not get updated somehow. I can't see any other difference
>>> related to credential policy. Anyone know if this is the case or why PINs
>>> might not have carried over, or if I'm barking up the wrong tree?
>>> >
>>> > I had read that there was some issues importing PINs into version 7.0,
>>> but exporting from 7.0 TO a version 7.1.3+ was not cited as a problem.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>> >
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