Migrating IIS

Hi, all

I tried to migrate a web server (IIS 4.0, NT 4.) to IIS5.0, Win 2k using
IIS migration wizard included in the resource kit. I don't use the default
web site, therefore it is stopped. During the migration, I encountered some
problems:
1) the wizard didn't seem to migrate the FTP site.
2) the wizard didn't seem to maintain where files are on the source server.
All the files were copied to one drive on the target server regardless their
locations on the source server, for instance,
c:\inetpub\web1\*.* on the source server---->
c:\inetpub\[sourceservername]\inetpub\web1 \*.* on the target server
e:\web\app on the source server ----->
c:\inetpub\[sourceservername]\e\web\app on the target server
3) On the source server, I have some local accounts and groups created for
the web site, in order to migrate the security setting, those accounts and
groups should also be created on the target server, are there any tools for
migrating the local user accounts and groups.

Besides the migration wizzard, are there any other tools for IIS migration?

Any thoughts and suggestions towards resolving these problems would be
appreciated. Thanks,

Thanks,

Jon

yonlinemanghn
Mon Jul 26 19:08:00 CDT 2004

Hello Jon,
Here are the answers to your questions:
1) the wizard didn't seem to migrate the FTP site.

------- IIS migration tool was not designed to migrate FTP sites

2) the wizard didn't seem to maintain where files are on the source
server. All the files were copied to one drive on the target server
regardless their locations on the source server, for instance,
c:\inetpub\web1\*.* on the source server---->
c:\inetpub\[sourceservername]\inetpub\web1 \*.* on the target server
e:\web\app on the source server ----->
c:\inetpub\[sourceservername]\e\web\app on the target server

----- You can specify the path for the content when you run the Migration
tool by using the switch /path. This is ignored if the /configonly is used.

3) On the source server, I have some local accounts and groups created for
the web site, in order to migrate the security setting, those accounts and
groups should also be created on the target server, are there any tools
for migrating the local user accounts and groups.

------ Custom users and groups are not supposed to be re-created by the
migration tool. I am not aware of other utilities that you can use to
migrate local accounts/groups.... if there are not too many, you might want
to create them manually and give them appropriate permissions.

Hope this helps!!!!


Thanks,
Yogita Manghnani
Microsoft Developer Support
Internet Information Server

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