PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI, enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems as well as WS-Management and CIM enabling management of remote Linux systems and network devices.

Coldfusion 10: Create ColdFusion instances from Windows PowerShell

If you need to install ColdFusion on Windows you may have the need to create instances by command line script. I have found some Linux bash examples in the Adobe forums, but nobody shared any script for Windows and these Linux versions cannot used. I had the need to write this scripts for Windows Core installation that is a bit more challenging than a GUI based installation, but the many benefits of a core installation out-weight the required work. I'm sharing these script here and hope these is of help for you getting these annoying tasks automated.

You need to prepare yourself first to use the script. As first step you need to get the cfadminPassword and this requires some debugging.

Setup Microsoft Windows or IIS for SSL Perfect Forward Secrecy and TLS 1.2

This PowerShell script setups your Windows Computer to support TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 protocol with Forward secrecy. Additionally it increases security of your SSL connections by disabling insecure SSL2 and SSL3 and all insecure and weak ciphers that a browser may fall-back, too. This script implements the current best practice rules. It was originally written for Microsoft Internet Information Server 7.5/8.0/8.5/10 (IIS) on Windows 2008R2/2012/2012R2/2016/2019, but the below settings implements system wide settings that work for everything that uses the Microsoft Crypto infrastructure. This means Microsoft Exchange and Internet Explorer and Edge and all applications that use WinHTTP API, too. It works on both Windows Desktops and Servers.

After you have added below registry entries you may like to verify that your server offers the much more secure SSL connections. There is the great https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ site that gives you a feeling how secure your SSL connections are. You should get a Summary like these:

SSL server check summary - rating A, Windows 2016, TLS 1.2 only

Coldfusion 2016: Move ColdFusion Undelivery Mail Back In Spool

You may experienced that ColdFusion (all versions) from time to times does not deliver all mails and moves some mails to Mail\Undelivr folder. These mails stay there and will never delivered. Normally this behavior is correct for emails with invalid email addresses, but in many many cases this happens only because ColdFusion temporarily cannot reach your mail gateway. The root cause here is ColdFusion that does not retry delivery properly like any other properly working email system.

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