Specifications

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Configuring Your System
For information about additional configuration tasks, see Configuring and Administering ColdFusion.
Managing ColdFusion services in Windows
The ColdFusion installation creates the following services in the configuration indicated:
“Disabling Remote Develop-
ment Services” on page 91
For security reasons, disable RDS when you move an application to the produc-
tion environment.
“Disabling JSP functionality
(server configuration only)” on
page 92
When running ColdFusion Enterprise Edition in a hosted environment, you might
want to disable JSP processing.
“Changing the ColdFusion user
account in Windows” on
page 93
Iif you discover that the account under which ColdFusion is running has inappro-
priate access rights; for example, to interact with remote data sources, other
application pages, or COM objects. You must also do this to be able to print to a
printer using the cfprint tag. You can do this after you install ColdFusion and
before you deploy your application.
Service Purpose Configuration
ColdFusion 8 Application Server The main ColdFusion service. ColdFusion pages
cannot be processed if this service is not running.
Server
Macromedia JRun Admin Server Runs the admin JRun server, used by the JRun
Management Console (JMC).
Multiserver
Macromedia JRun CFusion Server Runs the JRun cfusion server. Contains ColdFusion 8
deployed as an enterprise application.
Multiserver
ColdFusion 8 ODBC Agent The service used to configure data sources for the
ColdFusion 8 ODBC Server.
All
ColdFusion 8 ODBC Server The middle-tier service for ODBC connections that
use the DataDirect drivers for Microsoft Access and
ODBC Socket.
All
ColdFusion 8 Search Service Provides support for the ColdFusion 8 search tags..
You cannot use the ColdFusion 8 search tags if this
process is not running.
All
ColdFusion 8 .NET Service Lets you access local .NET assemblies on a Windows
system that runs ColdFusion.
All
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