I realize you may be "all set now", Alexis. But for the sake of others who may find this and with all due respect to Dave and Priyank (sincerely), I have a different take on both aspects of this question.
First, if you're decommissioning the old servers, there should be no need of any formal transfer of the license. Just use the old license on the new server, and stop using it on the old server. (With license activation in cf2021 and up, you'd instead need to deactivate a license on one machine before using it on another). My understanding is that "transfer" of a license is only relevant when formally moving ownership of the license from one owner to another. That doesn't seem to be the case here.
Priyank, any thoughts on that?
Second, as for finding the old cf installer, it's NOT that Adobe no longer offers old versions once a new one comes out: it's only that they don't offer them on the pages that PUBLICLY offer a cf download. On the contrary, for those who PURCHASED a license, they would have been given an account on either of two licensing sites where downloads from years ago still remain (but you will see only those you BOUGHT), along with your license keys. One is older, https://licensing.adobe.com/. The other is newer: https://account.adobe.com/products. And you may need to use or the other. Either REQUIRES a login. If you are not the person who licensed cf for your company, you need to find who did and have them login to get the keys or downloads. This is where some may run out of road.
In that case, as Dave mentioned, there's the cfmlrepo.com site, managed by trusted community members (myself included), but I realize some may be unwilling to use/trust that site. That's why it's important to hear the previous info on "getting from Adobe the installers you paid for". Sadly, when people complain of this, that info is generally not offered and the feeling of being "stuck" perpetuates.
FWIW, I learned of the second site above only rather recently, myself. Better still, I got Adobe to offer both links publicly with a recent update to the "cf downloads page" (at https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-downloads.html). While that's really only for downloading things RELATED to CF, I got them to at least add a box at the top of the cf2021 section pointing to these two licensing sites, as a step in helping solve this common dilemma. I realize Alexis being on cf2016 may not have looked there.
(Finally, it's indeed a grave risk to be running that version--which has had no updates, including security updates, in over 2 years. It's even more grave to run older versions, and indeed risky now to still be running cf2018, which got its last updates in July, while cf2021 and cf2023 have both had two updates since then. But I suspect a migration and new license purchase is not the "solution" Alexis wanted to hear as an answer to his question. Again, I offer this as clarification for other readers as well.)
I welcome feedback or correction on any of the above.
/Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart.org)
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