gnarbarian's questions

I've been struggling with this for a few days now, I've got a Hyper-V host with one statically configured external IP address. There is no DHCP server or internal network to retrieve an IP. How do I assign VMs an internal IP and configure NAT using the hyper-v network manager and the networking tools in windows server 2008?

Right now, the FTP server is running windows server 2008 R2 Standard, and has hyper-v installed. The VM we have installed is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I have been stuck trying to figure out how to assign the VM an internal IP (preferably static) and perform NAT without a physical router to configure. This problem is made more challenging by the fact that I need to RDP into the server to make changes. A bad configuration change locks me out and requires a call to the datacenter to have them go unbork my configuration.

Do I need to create a second "external virtual network switch" and then use Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to share the connection from the first virtual switch?

Since adding a second external switch will interrupt my current connection, will I still be able to RDP into the host after it's created or will I require someone at the datacenter to go over and manually configure the static IP before I can access it again?

Thanks in advance.

I installed the Coldfusion 9.0.1 update and now The application server won't start. I'm concerned that I may have installed the 64 bit update on a 32bit server but I am not sure how to check it without a running CF instance.

When trying to start the CF9 service I get the following error:

"Windows could not start the ColdFusion 9 Application Server on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 2."

The Event log entry states:

"The ColdFusion 9 Application Server service could not be started. Check the server "coldfusion" log files for more information."

The last server log entry is from when I stopped the service before installing the update:

"Information","Thread-1","03/12/13","17:04:09",,"ColdFusion stopped"

My coldfusion logs don't seem to list any errors. The installation log claims that it was successfully installed.

At any rate I'd like to simply roll back the update but I'm unsure how to do that. I have a C:\ColdFusion9\updater_backup folder do I just drag the contents of that folder into the root directory in order to restore the previous version?