Hotfix

In November 2016 we became aware that Adobe ColdFusion 2016 and earlier versions have issues with sending emails to IDN domains. Something that is possible for a very long time and becomes more and more common - at least in countries like Germany that have special chars. The CFMAIL errors with

The value of the attribute to, which is currently foo@bäüöß.com, is invalid.

coldfusion.tagext.InvalidTagAttributeException: Attribute validation error for tag CFMAIL. at coldfusion.tagext.net.MailTag.validate(MailTag.java:743) at coldfusion.tagext.net.MailTag.processAttributes(MailTag.java:846)

You may be in the situation that ColdFusion services are not starting up and a manual startup yields no useful information, too. It simply failed after it tries to startup the services for a very long time. If services are starting up it may takes an extreme long time to start.

Start-Service : Failed to start service 'ColdFusion 10 Application Server cfusion (ColdFusion 10 Application Server cfusion)'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Start-Service Cold*
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   + CategoryInfo  : OpenError: (System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController:ServiceController) [Start-Service],
  ServiceCommandException
   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : StartServiceFailed,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartServiceCommand

Background:

There are for sure more possible situation that may cause a ColdFusion startup failure, but if you have not changed anything and only rebooted/restarted your server/coldfusion after some OS updates and ColdFusion is now failing to start without having anything changed in ColdFusion you should check this issue very first. From my point of view this issue here is the most common issue that everyone will experience sooner or later.

Adobe has released ColdFusion 2016 Final some time ago. Well we took some time to give it a try and since 3 days we do not have so much fun.

The most heavy bug I can share is that CF 2016 is failing to execute SQL statements that has comments inside. This happens only with -- comments. I'm not sure if this is limited to Microsoft SQL. It has for sure nothing to do with the Microsoft JDBC driver you are using. See Adobe bugtracker ColdFusion 2016 - Bug 4126398: SQL comments inside CFQuery are not ignored.

Broken:

-- Using a comment after the code on a line.
USE Northwind
GO
UPDATE Products
SET UnitPrice = UnitPrice * .9 -- Try to build market share.
GO

Workaround:

USE Northwind
GO
SELECT * FROM Employees
/* The
GO in this comment causes it to be broken in half */
SELECT * FROM Products
GO

Solution: You can change all your code... (just kidding) or ask support. They have a hotfix with file name chf20160001.jar that works and will be integrated in Updater 1.

You are using Simpana 10 Exchange Mailbox archiving (not the previous Exchange Mailbox Archiver) in CommVault and you may have seen that your OnePass-Stubs have broken recall links in Quick Look. This is only visible in Outlook Web Access or on mobile. If you click the Quick Look link inside an e-mail you are redirected to https://webconsole/webconsole/RestServlet/Recall. Let me note that this is excactly the link that your users will see. Your global Recall Service URL configued for the archiver host is ignored.

Symptom:

• Recall Service is configured with hostname that contains "webconsole" in the hostname e.g. https://webconsole.example.com
• All Quick Look links in e-mails contain URLs to https://webconsole/webconsole/RestServlet/Recall and your custom hostname is ignored.
• Recalls fail as the hostname cannot resolved to a host.

Solution:

If you are running Simpana 9.0 SP2a and you backup Windows 2003 servers they are no longer backed up after you have installed SP2a. There is no notice or warning at all. You will not get an email if the job has failed to backup your data. Hopefully you have no data loss before you came aware of this bug...

Symtoms:

• Windows 2003 machines are not backed up. Windows 2008 or Windows R2 is not affected.
• Alert system does not notify you about the data backup failure.
• It does not matter if you use VSS or not.
• It does not matter if you have selected some files or all files for backup.
• Only the Commvault Jobs folder and SystemState is backed up.

Solution:

Mid January 2011 we found a bug in Commvault's Exchange Public Folder Archiver. This bug prevented us from restoring items that have been archived in past. It was a bit random, but my feeling was it is related to mails with attachments. As always supposed, it was not an issue of the MAPI connection configuration or other issues on our side. This is a Commvault bug and nothing else.

Required:

• Commvault Simpana 8.x
• Commvault Simpana 9.x

Symtoms:

• Archived public folder items cannot restored.
• Mails with attachments have mostly failed.
• User received very unspecific error message from Commvault Archiver Add-on in Outlook.

Solution:

If you are one of the HP DataProtector 6.11 customers and you have scheduled MsSQL transaction log and full backup to start simultaneously you will experience the below issue. We found this after an upgrade to latest 6.11 in November 2010 and a hotfix was build for us on 19. November 2010. We are running with this patch for 8 weeks successfully.

Cell Manager patch level:

Client SQL Server patch level: