"Migrating CF Admin settings between versions, safely", with Charlie Arehart

After another extended drought, we're happy to announce the next Online ColdFusion Meetup to be held Thursday Aug 1st at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4:

"Migrating CF Admin settings between versions, safely", with Charlie Arehart

Meeting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkgTjsKqIXk&list=PLG2EHzEbhy0-QirMKgSxhjkUyTSSTvHjL

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

When moving from one CF version to another (or even to the same version but from one machine or instance to another), someone will face the need to "bring along" the CF Admin settings, including such things as datasources, scheduled tasks, mappings, and so on. How can that be done quickly and safely? (Note that you should NOT just "copy over the neo xml files", nor must you "open two tabs/screens and start copy/pasting between them".) Did you know there are a few different ways to migrate admin settings safely—one of which is new starting with CF2021?

In this session, veteran CF troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will walk through these options, some old and some new, some built into CF and some freely available. We'll also cover briefly COMPARING CF Admin settings between two CF instances—again, other than just eyeballing two tabs/screens—as such a comparison can be very helpful to check things whether before or after such a migration.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s): (provided by the speaker)

A veteran server troubleshooter with over thirty years' experience in enterprise IT, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime contributor to the CF community and Adobe Community Professional. As an independent consultant, he provides remote, short-term, and even on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels (carehart.org/consulting).

RECORDINGS:

All meetings are recorded. As a Youtube live meeting, the URL offered here is the link to the recording as well. But the URL will also be posted after meeting at https://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com, and via the Youtube playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG2EHzEbhy0-QirMKgSxhjkUyTSSTvHjL).

WANT TO PRESENT?

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