Azure offers a free trial. Maybe run up an instance on there?
You can even migrate your current server over : http://fabriccontroller.net/blog/posts/migrating-your-windows-server-2003-workloads-to-microsoft-azure/ On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Xiaofeng Liu <liuxiaofeng1...@gmail.com> wrote: > That will be ideal. But I don't have a server running Windows 2003 to try > it out. > > My local win7 laptop runs CF11 but it's with Apache. > On 8 Aug 2015 1:02 pm, "M@ Bourke" <m.electronic.at.sym...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> How about trying it on a dev box first? >> On 8 Aug 2015 6:15 am, "Xiaofeng Liu" <liuxiaofeng1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I have an old Windows 2003 R2 server which still runs CF8 with IIS 6. >>> The server is a production box in DMZ. >>> The only good thing is it's 64-bit and it got lots of RAM - about 20G. >>> >>> Now I'm considering about install CF11 on this Windows 2003R2 server >>> with IIS 6. >>> >>> The reason behind that is: >>> - The company I work for will NOT decommission this server soon. >>> - Most of the development here now are based on local CF10/11 Dev >>> environment. >>> - I'd like to get better security and performance, as well as better >>> cfdocument capability which we used a lot to produce large PDFs out of HTML >>> >>> By checking the system requirements matrix from Adobe for CF11, it looks >>> like Windows2003R2 + IIS6 should be OK but it also looks like it kind of >>> just hit the minimum requirements. >>> About a year and half ago I've done upgrades to CF10 on two Windows 2008 >>> servers running IIS7.5 and it all went well and we rarely had any issue. >>> (FYI I can't use these servers for certain sites as these are servers sit >>> inside corporate network and can only serve internal sites). >>> >>> But for upgrade to CF11 on Windows 2003 + IIS 6, I'm not sure if an old >>> server like this will have any issue? >>> >>> So my question really is has anyone had similar experience and if you >>> could share that will be helpful before I go ahead. >>> Because the server is in DMZ, I will have to install few things manually >>> like MS VC++ re-distributable package and CF update etc. >>> For IIS7.5, ISAPI Extensions, IIS Metabase and IIS 6 configuration >>> compatibility, CGI and .NET framework features need to be added. How about >>> IIS 6? Anything that need to be aware of? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> Xiaofeng >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "cfaussie" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "cfaussie" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "cfaussie" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
