If you follow me on Twitter you probably already know, but I wanted to put the word out that I'm now running ColdFusion 9 Enterprise. From a performance standpoint, the difference on SlideSix is pretty noticeable. I'm also loving how quick the Flex Management Console is now thanks to the complete Flash Remoting overhaul that came with CF9.

Want to know the coolest thing of all about this upgrade? It didn't cost me a dime. That's right, I was lucky enough to get a completely free license to CF9 Enterprise from ColdFusion Product Manager Adam Lehman. Do you have a brilliant idea for a startup that takes advantages of the power of ColdFusion? Pitch your idea to Adrock and you may just get your hands on a free license too!

I can't wait to take advantage of some of the UI enhancments and I know that the PDF upgrades will lead to an immediate improvement in the conversion quality of some presentations. There's also a handful of other ideas I have in mind to play with. More on those later.

As a footnote, I should mention that for the most part the upgrade went fine but there was one minor annoyance. The process to get CF working on IIS7+ is widely documented, but I ran into a different issue. After CF installed I kept getting Handler Mapping errors thrown by IIS. I'm not exactly sure this is the right thing to do, but the fix was to check 'Configure 32 bit webserver' in the web server connector tool. See screenshot:

Update: I ran into this issue because the App Pool was configured to run 32 bit. When upgrading from 32 bit CF to 64 bit make sure to set 'Enable 32 bit applications' to false in the App Pool's advanced settings.