Great, thanks Jochem.  We will be trying DFS sharing the config files and using 
that setting.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 5:04 PM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Re: Resources for setting up ColdFusion in a shared environment?


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Plunkett, Matthew wrote:

> We are looking at deploying ColdFusion in a load balanced 
> configuration initially with two servers.  We have a hardware load 
> balancer and are running Windows Server 2012 for the web servers.  We 
> have figured out how to have the two servers share an 
> applicationhost.config and run the websites out of a DFS share, but 
> aren't sure how to "share" ColdFusion's configuration between the two 
> servers.  We want it to be that if a change is made to ColdFusion on 
> one of the servers, it happens to both.  Does anyone know where I could start 
> looking at this problem?


There is a setting in the CF administrator to reload the configuration every X 
seconds. It is intended for Websphere clusters where changes to configuration 
files are propagated to other nodes, but it might work for DFS as well.



> We are also interested in methods to rapidly deploy ColdFusion using 
> an answer file or similar tech.
>

Installing CF using an answer file is fully supported, search the installation 
documentation for a "silent" install.

Jochem




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