Overview

Background

Core support for ColdFusion version 11 reached end of life at the end of April 2019. Extended support is available for a maximum of 2 years to allow migration to the latest technology.

This project will move all corporate ColdFusion applications using version 11 to a new supported ColdFusion 2018 environment.

Scope

This project will investigate what corporate applications will be upgraded from CF11 to CF2018
All Dev and Test environments should have been repaired for the CF11 upgrade but this project will check that they are working before upgrading
This project will investigate whether the CF11 applications can be added to the newly built CF2018 infrastructure under INF135 (with specification updated) or whether new infrastructure is needed
The project will check that Bamboo plans exist and where applicable, each application will be added to the deployment framework (Bamboo) plan and migrated to the new infrastructure. If not applicable the applications will follow a normal deployment strategy.
This project will determine how to migrate the hosted Windows systems which are currently on CF10 ( a list of these apps is at https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=381840218 )

Production have already investigated what corporate applications are on CF11 and the following 24 applications should be upgraded:

Application	Owner	Notes	Bamboo Plan*
Bookable rooms www.bookableroomsfeed.ted.is.ed.ac.uk	Timetabling Scott Rosie		?
Buy@Ed www.buyated.csg.ed.ac.uk ***	Finance Craig Henderson		Y
Card System www.frontoffice.mis.ed.ac.uk	Card Services Barry Croucher	Stefan confirmed that this is on CF11 and in use.	?
???System name www.citester.is.ed.ac.uk	?	Julieta confirmed running only from KB. No configuration for AT	?
eAuthorisations for Finance www.eauthorisations.finance.ed.ac.uk ***	Finance Craig Henderson	Stefan confirmed that this is on CF11 and in use. Julieta confirmed running only from KB. Manually disabled on AT	?
EBIS on-line www-live.ebis.estates.ed.ac.uk	Estates Karen Adamson	From closure report EST091: Ensure any applications that access Estates drawings correctly map to the new locations. Should the drawings need to reside on the ColdFusion 11 server at all?; it may be beneficial to move them to an independent location. As a reference point for any future EBIS On-line UAT activities (particularly when upgrading environments), the following should be carefully tested:- - Drawings functionality. - Links to Serengeti, used for viewing document images. https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=26838620 Julieta confirmed running only from KB	?
Finance eExpenses www.expenses.finance.ed.ac.uk	Finance	Listed on ‘ColdFusion Applications - current state’ page as CF11 but only on CF10 – migrating to 2018 under INF135 Stefan confirmed that this is on CF11 and in use. Julieta confirmed seems to be migrating to cflinux2018 Sue confirmed was not included in INF135 as had noted as already on CF11	?
Electronic Internal Transfers (eITs) www.eit.finance.ed.ac.uk ***	Finance Craig Henderson	Julieta confirmed running only from AT. Manually disabled on KB	Y
eStores www.estores.finance.ed.ac.uk ***	Finance Craig Henderson	Julieta confirmed BROKEN on KB, running from AT	Y
Event Booking www.events.ed.ac.uk	SM: Alex Carter		Y
Finance Channel (also known as Student payment) www.studebt.mis.ed.ac.uk	Finance Craig Henderson	Julieta confirmed Running only from KB. Manually disabled on AT	?
FPA Reconciliation	Finance		Y
OLLBook www.course-bookings.lifelong.ed.ac.uk	OLL		?
Online Print Credit (PCounter) www.pcounter.mis.ed.ac.uk	Card Services Barry Croucher	XPR SQL database houses the students print history logs Had to deploy to Live along with FIN and OLL due to dependencies with them all being under WPMSERV.	?
Organisational hierarchy www.org.planning.ed.ac.uk	?		?
Personal tutor www.ess.euclid.ed.ac.uk	?	Stefan confirmed that this is on CF11 and in use.	?
Salary Forecasting www.salfor.finance.ed.ac.uk ***	?		Y
Student MyEd channels www.esp.myed.ed.ac.uk	?	Stefan confirmed that this is on CF11 and in use.	?
Transparency (time recording for academics) also known as Time Allocation Survey (TAS) www.transparency.fec.ed.ac.uk	Finance Craig Henderson		?
TAS Admin www.transparencyadmin.fec.ed.ac.uk	Finance Craig Henderson?		?
Voting system (EVES) www.eves.myed.ed.ac.uk	SM: Alex Carter		Y
VRS www.vrs.mis.ed.ac.uk **	SM: Alex Carter		Y
WebFirst www.webfirst.fin.ed.ac.uk ***	Finance Craig Henderson		Y
WPMserve www.wpmservice.finance.ed.ac.uk	Finance Craig Henderson	Julieta confirmed running only from KB. Manually disabled on AT	Y

* Bamboo plan - As noted in closure reports from previous upgrade projects – should be double checked

** May be replaced by new IDAM strategy in future

*** Noted as being replaced by Core Systems ERP in the future

The following applications are on CF11 but appear to be decommissioned

www.iskills.is.ed.ac.uk --

DECOMMISSIONED

Stefan confirmed is not in use. Code and related settings should not be migrated if it is still on the servers.

www.mycareer.ed.ac.uk

DECOMMISSIONED

Stefan confirmed is not in use. Code and related settings should not be migrated if it is still on the servers.

www.smart.mis.ed.ac.uk

DECOMMISSIONED? To be checked

www.admin.eves.myed.ed.ac.uk

DECOMMISSIONED? To be checked

Not in scope

Anything other than that which is essential for the compliance upgrade from ColdFusion 11 to ColdFusion 2018 is out of scope
Migration of the hosted applications: this will be carried out by the users/customers who own the applications on the managed hosting.

Objectives & Deliverables

The deliverables are prioritised using the MoSCoW prioritisation method:

M=Must Have; S=Should Have; C=Could Have; W=Want

(M= has to be satisfied for the final solution to be acceptable in terms of delivery dates, compliance, viability etc.
S= high-priority requirement that should be included if possible -workarounds may be available
C= a nice-to-have requirement
W= want but will not be part of this project)

Objectives and Deliverables	Priority MoSCoW	Owner
O1 To move CF11 applications to 2018
D1. Check capacity of existing CF2018 servers	M	TechMan
D2. Design capacity (either upgrade existing infrastructure or create new infrastructure)	M	Dev/DevTech
D3. Dev, Test and Live available in CF2018 for CF11 applications	M	Dev/DevTech
D4. Bamboo plan available for each application where applicable	M	Dev
D5. If Bamboo plans are not applicable, deployment plans will be available	M	Dev
D6. CF11 corporate applications migrated from Dev to Test	M	Dev/DevTech
O2 Testing of corporate applications
D1. Each corporate application tested by Production and business partners	M	Production
D2. Each CF11 corporate application deployed to Live	M	DevTech
O3 Create an infrastructure for the managed hosting apps (on CF10)
D1. Decision on the strategy for managed hosting	M	Production
D2. Creation of new infrastructure (or upgrading of existing infrastructure) for hosted applications	M	DevTech
D3. Migrates 1 application as proof of concept on the managed hosting CF10 to CF2018	M	DevTech
O4 Decommissioning
D1. Decommissioning of CF11 infrastructure	S	DevTech

Decommissioning of the CF10 infrastructure may have to be carried out after the project closes as will be dependent on how quickly customers and users migrate their hosted applications.

Benefits

Applications will be on a supported version of ColdFusion
Applications will be on a version where security patches can be applied

Success Criteria

Corporate applications continue to provide service after the upgrade with no new issues.
No degradation in performance
Infrastructure available for managed hosted applications for users/customers to migrate their apps. Proof of concept for this is successful.

Project Milestones

Milestone	Start Date	Due Date	Comments
Planning		16 Nov 19
Hosted applications decision		29 Nov 19
Build (Dev complete)	1 Nov 19	31 Jan 20
Migration (Test complete)	1 Feb 20	31 Mar 20
UAT (ASOR)	1 Apr 20	30 Apr 20
Delivery (Hosted applications infrastructure)		15 May 20
Delivery (Deploy to Live Linux)		22 May 20
Delivery (Deploy to Live Windows) if applicable		29 May 20
Delivery review (DSOR)		12 Jun 20
Decommissioning of CF11 servers	14 Jun 20	19 Jun 20	Run in Live for 2-3 weeks before decommissioning
Close		30 Jun 20

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This article was published on Oct 16, 2019