Installing Cold Fusion MX7 on Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit or Windows Server 2012 R2 64bit
Installing ColdFusion MX7 on Windows 2008 R2 64bit and Windows 2012 R2 64bit With the end of support for Windows 2003, it was time to move our Cold Fusion services to a newer server architecture. Though we've generally moved to ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC, we have a few applications that were developed for Cold Fusion MX 7 around 2006. We haven't had time to rewrite some of the old ColdFusion MX7 applications, so we kept those applications running on the old Windows 2003 platform. Since we don't develop any new applications in CFMX7 and we plan to eventually rewrite everything in .NET, we have not bothered to purchase a newer version of Cold Fusion, as is recommended by ADOBE. NOTE: CFMX7 is not supported on Windows 2008 and Windows 2012. You should probably purchase and use the latest version of Cold Fusion for your production environment, especially if you intend on supporting those CF apps over the long term. Given that note, here are the steps that I’ve co