This document contains specific upgrade notes for customers planning to upgrade the Windows-only ASM image to Lync Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) ASM image.
If the SBC is running a release prior to Release 3.0, it is required to upgrade the SBC to at least Release 3.0. To upgrade the SBC firmware, follow the instructions from Upgrading SBC Edge.
This process consists of four steps.
Upgrade the SBC Communication Service by following the instructions in Upgrading the SBC Communication Service.
Upgrade the SBC to Release 3.0 or later by following the instructions in the applicable Upgrade Notes under SBC Edge Release Information.
This step is required to ensure that the ASM Recovery Partition is correctly provisioned with the Lync SBA image, should it be necessary at a future date to restore the system from this partition. See Managing the ASM for details on the recovery partition.
Note that the existing Windows-only image will not be deleted and will be preserved as an option in the *Application Solution Module Reinitialize* dialog along with the Lync 2010 or 2013 SBA image.
Proceed with the ASM Re-initialization only after the ASM Recovery Partition has been upgraded to the latest ASM image.