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You may need to install updates via command line. This at least is a major requirement if you run ColdFusion in a locked down environment with limited permissions. In this case the ColdFusion instance runs with a specified windows user account that has very limited permissions on the local system. The user ColdFusion runs under will not be a member of Administrators group. In this case you are unable to run automatic updates via ColdFusion Administrator. The updates will silently fail and the update notification will just not get away in ColdFusion Administrator.

Analysis has shown that the update log has problem in renaming the coldfusion.exe file. This at least happens for Updater 12 if you had no other updates installed. It may be possible that the updates succeed, if this file is not going to be replaced. The root cause of this issue is that the ColdFusion Service user has no Administrator permissions and only Administrators can stop and start Windows services.

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.

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.

Symtom:

After you have installed Adobe ColdFusion Enterprise and created a new instance you are not able to assign a IIS website to this created instance via Start > All Programs > Adobe > ColdFusion 10 > Web Server Configuration Tool. All sites are automatically assigned to the cfusion instance.

Solution:

Start the [Server Directory][Server Name]\runtime\bin\wsconfig.exe in the folder of the instance. This is normally C:\ColdFusion10\[my-instance-name]\runtime\bin\wsconfig.exe. If you add a new IIS Web Site it will be automatically assigned to this server instance.

History:

• 02/07/2013: Found this solution.

Symtom:

You are trying to install Adobe ColdFusion 10 Enterprise with instances and after the instance has been created you cannot start the instance.

Cause:

The main instance named cfusion has Allow Line Debugging enabled at the time when you created the new instance.

Workaround:

Uncheck Allow Line Debugging before creating a new instance and enable it afterwards in the newly created instance if required.

History:

• 02/07/2013: Found the workaround.