Migrate IIS Applications from Windows Server 2003 to 2012

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BrainCoder picture BrainCoder · Mar 12, 2015 · Viewed 11k times · Source

I have a Windows Server 2003 SP2 that is running IIS 6 with several web sites and Web applications and I need to copy the all the web sites and web applications to a Windows Server 2012 server running IIS 7.5. Is there anyway to copy the all the application to the new server?

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Bobby Turkalino picture Bobby Turkalino · Mar 12, 2015

There is a tool called the Web Deployment Tool. It's a command tool. Below is a technet article all about this.

The process is pretty simple and only takes ~10 minutes for your average site or application.

To start, make backups of your existing IIS6 and IIS7 sites/applications and configs. Next, find any components that are required by your sites/applications and install those on your destination server. There is a command in the tool that lists dependencies. Then you pre-test the deployment and finally you execute.

Good luck.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff633422%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

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