Migrate from IIS 5 to IIS 6 and new hardware

Looking for some advice or docs on migrating a IIS 5 environment to a new
server with IIS 6.
Not sure if I should upgrade the IIS 5 to 6 then backup and restore? Or
what the recommended path is.

Re: Migrate from IIS 5 to IIS 6 and new hardware

On Sep 11, 9:40 am, george wrote:
> Looking for some advice or docs on migrating a IIS 5 environment to a new
> server with IIS 6.
> Not sure if I should upgrade the IIS 5 to 6 then backup and restore? Or
> what the recommended path is.


There's really no recommended path because there is no such thing as a
standard IIS5 environment. Just about everyone does their own thing
when they install Windows, so migration is always custom. Advice --
there's plenty -- but you have to sort out what applies in your
situation.

In detail, it depends on what you want to migrate.
- OS level settings migrate by upgrading OS.
- IIS level settings migrate by upgrading or through IIS Migration
Wizard.
- Application level settings migrate via whatever is supported by the
application.

IIS6 settings, including security, are different depending on whether
you upgraded the OS vs clean installed the OS.

Personally, I'd clean install Windows Server 2003 and then migrate the
IIS5 websites to IIS6. I'd rather start with the clean secure settings
of a clean install, rather than a muddled, partially secured settings
of an upgrade.

I do this because I keep track of the IIS level settings as well as
the Application level settings, so I know how to reapply it on a clean
OS installation. This helps in disaster recovery, rebuilding servers,
and duplicating servers as well.


//David
http://w3-4u.blogspot.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang
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