Setup & Migration

Re: Migrating from 1 IIS Server to the Other

chrisad — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:21:57 GMT

Hey folks~

Tom is right as he is outlining the supported mechanism for doing this - IIS 6.0 Migration Tool. It can migrate from previous versions of IIS (4 & 5) as well as migrate from one IIS 6.0 server to another. Beyond that, it also has the /copy switch that tells the tool to only connect to, copy & migrate only the configuration from that server.

To facilitate your learning on this topic, you might be interested in viewing a couple of webcasts we have done on this topic:

The Ins and Outs of the IIS 6.0 Migration Tool

IIS 6.0: IISCNFG.vbs versus IISBack.vbs

Beyond that, you can also to learn the robust tool adsutil.vbs though this requires a bit more advanced knowledge of scripting & the metabase. It has a hidden switch called /s that allows you to connect to a server remotely and modify settings directly using the command-line.

IISSYNC: This tool, though shipped on the Windows Server CD, is not supported to be used as a synchronization tool for non-clustered servers. The term cluster, in this usage, means the usage of Microsoft Clustering Service (MSCS) which IIS supports. It is not recommended, though, for IIS 6.0 servers but instead recommended to use Network Load Balancing (NLB).

Hope this helps,

Re: Migrating from 1 IIS Server to the Other

tomkmvp — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:35:59 GMT

Have you seen the migration tool as part of the IIS 6 Resource Kit?
http://www.iis.net/GalleryEngine/themes/downloads/Skins/handlers/893/ItemPermaLink.ashx

Re: Migrating from 1 IIS Server to the Other

Bernard — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:48:24 GMT

IISSYNC focus on metabase changes, if you are change the physical web page, you will need to manually copy the file to new server.

Re: Migrating from 1 IIS Server to the Other

sontek — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:53:46 GMT

I found a little tool called IISSYNC.EXE in %SYSTEMROOT%/System32/inetsrv that seemed to do the basic job. But I was wondering if there is a way to massively change every applicationt o have a different default page. We're changing every startup page for the applications on this server.

Thanks!

Migrating from 1 IIS Server to the Other

sontek — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:36:45 GMT

Tomorrow afternoon we're migrating all our web applications (asp .net 1.1) over to a new faster web server. The problem is we create custom web registration sites for multiple companies and have over 200 web applications to move over. I was wondering if there was an easy way to mainstream Creating every directory in the main wwwroot as its own application and changing the default page for it.

example:

in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\
Page1
Page2
Page3

I need to loop through each of those pages in IIS and make sure they are running as their own application and that their default page is now "test.aspx" rather than "default.aspx" or "index.html"

Thanks for any ideas!!!