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• 10-25-2009, 4:50 PM

  cwbunting Joined on 10-25-2009, 8:48 PM Posts 1	Migrating entire server? Reply Contact  I am looking to migrate my entire IIS 6 server to a new IIS 7 server. What is the commandline to migrate all sites at once, to say a folder on the C drive, and then run the command on the IIS7 server to read the folder? I don't have LAN connectivity between the servers, as they are at seperate sites over a wan.

• 10-25-2009, 8:25 PM

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  SuperTramp Joined on 07-06-2008, 10:41 PM Seventies Posts 112

  Re: Migrating entire server? Reply Contact To archive the 6.0 server, msdeploy -verb:sync -source:webserver60 -dest:archivedir=c:\mymagicdir To instantiate the new 7.0 server, msdeploy -verb:sync -source:archivedir=c:\mymagicdir -dest:webserver60 That should be it.  Note: 1) If you want to skip the content copy for some reason (i.e. just want to copy the configuration), add a "-disableLink:Content" to the command line on both commands.  2) The second command line is a little confusing since it still refers to webserver60.  But it is intentional.  When you run this command on an IIS 7 server, we will convert the metabase settings over to the new config system of IIS 7.  3) If you run a command with "-whatif", we'll just tell you what we would do.  That might be useful for debugging purposes as you play with the tool. Hope everything works.  Let us know if you have any issues.

• 10-29-2009, 2:22 PM

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  jhartbarger Joined on 10-29-2009, 2:20 PM Posts 5	Re: Migrating entire server? Reply Contact  When I try this I get the following error C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy>msdeploy -verb:sync-source:nocextweb001.xxxxxxxxx.org -dest:archivedir=c:\nocextweb Error: Unknown factory 'nocextweb001.xxxxxxxxxxx.org'. Error count: 1.   Any ideas?

• 10-29-2009, 2:29 PM

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  moshaikh Joined on 11-14-2008, 12:21 AM Posts 153

  Re: Migrating entire server? Reply Contact msdeploy -verb:sync -source:webserver60 -dest:archiveDir=C:\nocextweb The source argument needs to be a provider from the list of providers supported as specified here Since you need to migrate all sites and settings from iiS6 to an archive and then onto an IIS7 box you can use the webserver60 provider. ArchiveDir is also a provider. The above command makes msdeploy sync the entire webserver to an archive for which you give the path as c:\nocextweb. Then you can sync it from this archivedir as msdeploy -verb:sync -source:archiveDir=C:\nocextweb -dest:auto Let us know if you need more information.

• 10-29-2009, 2:54 PM

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  jhartbarger Joined on 10-29-2009, 2:20 PM Posts 5

  Re: Migrating entire server? Reply Contact Ok now I understand and my apologizes as this is my first run with msdeploy, Now next error is  Error: The property 'value' located at '/webServer60/metaKey[@path='/LM/W3SVC']/ metaProperty' is marked as secure. You must specify an encryption password to ar chive this property. Error count: 1.   I am running msdeploy -verb:sync -source:webserver60,encryptPassword=pass -dest:archiveDir=C:\nocextweb

• 10-29-2009, 3:06 PM

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  moshaikh Joined on 11-14-2008, 12:21 AM Posts 153	Re: Migrating entire server? Reply Contact msdeploy -verb:sync -source:webserver60 -dest:archiveDir=C:\nocextweb,encryptPassword=pass  This should work. You can read more about this here

• 10-29-2009, 3:12 PM

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  jhartbarger Joined on 10-29-2009, 2:20 PM Posts 5	Re: Migrating entire server? Reply Contact  thanks a ton!

• 10-29-2009, 3:53 PM

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  jhartbarger Joined on 10-29-2009, 2:20 PM Posts 5

  Re: Migrating entire server? Reply Contact  Ok now I feel like a moron, I am trying to sync it on the R2 server now running  msdeploy -verb:sync -source:archiveDir=d:\nocextweb -dest:auto,encryptPassword=pass   And I get this error even though I am using the same password I used to archive it: Error: The property 'value' located at '/webServer60/metaKey[@path='/LM/W3SVC']/ metaProperty[@name='AnonymousUserPass']' is encrypted. To extract the property f rom the archive, you must specify the same password that was used to encrypt the  property. Error count: 1.

• 10-29-2009, 3:58 PM

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  EmilyK Joined on 02-15-2008, 10:14 PM Posts 9	Re: Migrating entire server? Reply Contact msdeploy -verb:sync -source:archiveDir=d:\nocextweb,encryptPassword=pass -dest:auto  should work. - Emily

• 10-29-2009, 4:03 PM

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  Samarjeet Joined on 07-14-2009, 6:46 AM Posts 23	Re: Migrating entire server? Reply Contact MsDeploy also ships with a UI in inetmgr. You can create or import server packages using Inetmgr UI. The UI would prompt you to enter a password while packaging(if any data in your config file requires encryption) or unpackaging (if it needs one to decrypt the content of the package).

• 10-29-2009, 4:11 PM

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  jhartbarger Joined on 10-29-2009, 2:20 PM Posts 5	Re: Migrating entire server? Reply Contact  thanks guys