After upgrading and migrating from ColdFusion 9 to 10, all of our scheduled tasks are gone. In the logs, there are "Advance Scheduling support is not available in this edition of ColdFusion server" errors. I know this is a known issue that was fixed in the first update. At this point, ColdFusion 10 is on update 10 (which docs says is cumulative so should include update 1), and documentation says to first install the mandatory update then update 10. We did this before migrating, however our scheduled tasks still do not appear in the CF admin console. In other threads on the subject, I've read that we may need to add the "html" extension to the new neo-cron.xml (we have tasks that create static output), but that doesn't seem to be directly correlated to the issue of not seeing our scheduled tasks at all. Any ideas? We're running CF on Windows Server 2003 (SP2)/IIS 6.
Even if CF doesn't recognize our tasks, is there a way to take our neo-cron.xml from CF 9 and import it into 10 to recreate our tasks?
I believe in CF10, tasks require an onComplete.
So after the tag
<struct type='coldfusion.scheduling.ScheduleTagData'>
add the line below for each task
<var name='oncomplete'><string></string></var>
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We are migrating some code from CF 10 to CF 2016 virtual machines that needs to connect to a couple Access databases. I installed the necessary drivers and setup odbc datasources in Windows but have found that our CF 2016 VM was setup without the ODBC service and I have not been able to find a clear way to add it.
When I go to add/remove programs the only option is to uninstall CF and when I run a CF 2016 installer it will not let me go through the "Server configuration" process because an existing install already exists. Is there a standard approach for adding sub-components to a CF server that were not chosen on first install?
Looks like I found my answer after digging around for a while. The migration wizard needs to be run again to add the ODBC service but there could be various complications with this depending on permissions and other factors. I was not able to get this to work after a brief period of time so I am just going to wrap up my transition to using python for our limited Access needs but I do believe this to be the answer.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/ColdFusion/ColdFusion-11-ODBC-service/td-p/6207226
Here are the basic steps. See link above for various troubleshooting info from Charlie Arehart and others.
Navigate to adminconfig.xml at C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\lib\ and open it with text editor (say notepad).
Change the value from “false” to “true” in runmigrationwizard
Change the value from “false” to “true” in odbc
Save the file and restart ColdFusion Service.
After restarting the service, access the cf admin url and you will get the migration wizard. Follow the onscreen wizard to continue.
I came upon the answer by way of a thread about getting Access data sources setup in CF11 and CF2016 which Charlie Arehart contributed to and linked over to info about the ODBC service setup.
We upgraded our Coldfusion 11 instance to version 16 (11,0,16,313933) and now all the scheduled tasks seems to have disappeared.
A quick google search doesn't seem to give any clues. I have had a look in the update log and there is nothing which suggests any issue.
Could someone please advise?
Update
Adobe are aware of this issue but they don't have a solution yet. ?!?!?!?
Adobe CF11 update 16
Work Around Reported
According to https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2595082
and
https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/CF-4204021
Recover a backup copy of and manually edit a backup copy of the neo-crons.xml. Add the below to each job and then replace the wiped out copy with this one and restart the services.
<var name='clustered'>
<string>false</string>
</var>
I am currently trying to upgrade a Sitecore installation from 7.5 to 8.1 Update 3 and I can't seem to figure out a good process that won't take weeks and weeks. I have posted questions on other blog posts and also to the official Sitecore Community site but have not really gotten any good feedback. Here is what I am trying to do.
I need to upgrade Sitecore from 7.5 to 8.1 Update 3. To do that it looks like I need to do 3 separate upgrades:
7.5 to 8.0 Initial Release
8.0 Initial Release to 8.1 Initial Release
8.1 Initial Release to 8.1 Update 3
In addition we are using both the Email Campaign Manager (ECM) and the Webforms for Marketers (WFFM) modules. Each of those modules has its own separate upgrade instructions.
Also we have servers in 3 different environments: 1 in DEV, 1 in QA and 3 in PROD (1 CM and 2 CD)
The upgrades of Sitecore itself are long and tedious and filled with many manual steps prone to error. I am already on my 3rd attempt to upgrade my DEV site and it seems every time I do it I get about half way through and I run in to lots of errors. In addition the instructions for upgrading ECM/EXM seem to not allow you to skip to major releases. So to upgrade EXM itself I am going to have to do 10 individual upgrades!!!
I am trying desperately to figure out if there are any shorter ways to accomplish this upgrade. This is so complicated and tedious that I feel like it will take me one or two days just to upgrade the DEV site. Then another one or two days to upgrade the QA site - assuming I don't run in to any errors that I can't figure out.
Then after that I have absolutely no idea how I am going to upgrade PROD. I have a CM server and 2 CD servers. There's no way I can freeze content entry and editing for a week while I do the upgrade. Plus we have some user generated content like user registrations and order entries on the site. How can I upgrade PROD and not lose registrations and order entries and other user generated content?
I was hoping that there would be some easier way of doing a Sitecore upgrade from one major version to the next but I can't seem to figure it out. No matter what I try it is incredibly complex and manual and prone to error.
Any help is appreciated.
Corey
One option could also be installing a new version of Sitecore 8.1 update 3 and run a database comparison tool (such as RAZL) to get across the items in your new Sitecore instance.
You could get the items across using the regular Sitecore packages although that's more time-consuming unless you automate that using something like Sitecore Ship or Courier.
You'll also need to check your code of course, any config changes you're patching in etc. still will have to be tested.
Mind you, this is not recommended practice for reasons you can find in the blogpost jammykam posted in a comment (http://www.seanholmesby.com/the-truth-about-sitecore-upgrades/)
There's rumors of an Express upgrade tool in 8.2 that will allow you to upgrade directly from an old version. I don't have an official source, but there's a few blog posts about this, this for example: http://kverheire.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/sitecore-82-in-depth-preview-83-update.html
I believe the people who actually have more info on that are bound by NDA - so you'd have to ask Sitecore directly for more info.
If you can't wait for 8.2 - then you can also create new blank environments of a newer version and write your own processes for migrating data across. Not sure how easy this will be with EXM, WFFM, or Analytics though.
I'm using Sitecore 8.0 (rev. 150121), and I set up a couple of scheduled tasks to populate items last week,
After checking the logs for the past few days it turns out that Sitecore keeps seeing them as not due yet.
Given the fact that I set the schedule to the following
20140101|99990101|127|24:00:00
You have to set the interval at which sitecore check for due tasks, You can do that by updating the <scheduling> section in sitecore settings in web.config also you may consider the following instead : 20140101|99990101|127|23:59:59
i want to schedule a job in SAS-DIS. i tried the process using sas management console,bt an error is popping up saying scheluing server not found.
can anyone help me how to setup a scheduling server? or is it a software to be installed?
Thanks
I think a scheduling server is an extra package that has to be purchased. Our BI setup is lacking that option and no matter what we can't seem to get it approved. Check with your SAS server admin to see if the job scheduling has been enabled. If so he/she should be able to tell you the process for getting it scheduled.
Alternatively, without a scheduling server you still deploy your jobs and can either use
1. Cron and Crontab (in Unix or Linux)
2. Windows OS scheduler
to schedule jobs manually as this is the best option available if there is none. I know this can be very tedious and cumbersome , but can give it a try if you have less number of jobs to schedule.