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June 11, 2012
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ColdFusion 10 and COM Objects - I don't think it works!

  • June 11, 2012
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I've been struggling with an implementation of ColdFusion 10 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 64 Bit server, with 32 Bit ColdFusion and IIS 7.5.

I cannot get ColdFusion 10 to instantiate any of the four COM objects that my company developed in house, they all report the same error:

An exception occurred when instantiating a COM object.              

  The cause of this exception was that: AutomationException:

However, these COM objects do work under the following scenarios:

CF 9.0.1 32 Bit on 64 Bit Windows Server IIS 7.5

CF 10.0.0 32 Bit on 32 Bit Windows Server 2003, ISS 6.0

I would like a sanity check here, just to confirm:

Has anyone been successful instantiating a COM object in the environment I describe (ColdFusion 10 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 64 Bit server, with 32 Bit ColdFusion and IIS 7.5).

If so, is it a publically available COM object so I can confirm?

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    AeopileAuthor
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    June 11, 2012

    More information to those that may end up struggling with this someday and find this in a google search.

    Installing CF 10.0.0 32 Bit on a 32 Bit Windows Server 2008, IIS 7.0, also correctly instantiates the COM object.

    The problem is localized on CF 10.0.0 32 Bit on 64 Bit Windows systems.