Updating Skype DBs on a shared SQL server

[Rich Bashaw]

Hi,

My Skype DBs are on a shared SQl server. I am getting ready to go to the latest CU. When it comes time to update the DBs, can I just run the 

Install-CsDatabase -Update -ConfiguredDatabases -SqlServerFqdn <SQL Server FQDN>

command without all the preceding steps of stop-cswindowsservice, stop w3svc, etc? Seems kind of silly to stop those services when the SQL server with the DBs does not have any CsServices installed? Also, there are not any mirroring or always on services running on the SQL server either.

Thanks

[#2]

Hi,

You can update SQL without stopping Skype services on FrontEnd servers. But there can still be something that goes wrong so you should maybe not doing this in the middle of the day when users are using Skype.

[#3]

But you shouldn't start the CS services before upgrading the databases...

Did you know, you can check the database versions with this one-liner:

Test-CsDatabase -SqlServerFqdn <SQLServerFQDN> -ConfiguredDatabases | ft databasename,installedversion,expectedversion -AutoSize

/Kenneth ML