[AccessD] OT: Moving Web Server

I had to look into this a few years ago, going from a 2000 server to a 2000
server.  Our original Intranet was just a file server, not even using an web
server.  I built a 'new' intranet on my workstation, and hosted it there for
the first several months, as it grew into a function intranet.  After it had
grown it's own wings, we moved it to it's own server.......  at that time
(I'd say it was 2002), there were very few utilities to 'move' a webserver
from one box to another.

That may have changed with 2003.  I ended up just doing it manually.  That
allowed me to also clean up some of the mess from the initial creation, and
organize it a little better.

One possibility would be to use Frontpage to 'copy' the website (I know FP
2003 can do this, never tried with previous versions.....and I don't know if
it will setup all the subwebs or not...)

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim DeMarco [mailto:Jdemarco at hudsonhealthplan.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:08 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] OT: Moving Web Server

List,

Sorry for the OT but our tech staff is forcing a move of our Intranet
server to a new server machine ASAP.  Current server Windows 2000, new
machine Windows 2003 Server.

Having never lived through a move of this type I'd like to ask you all:
How do we move all of our IIS settings (virtual folders, etc.) to the
new machine?  Are there tools or scripts that we can use to do this?

We've got a number of ASP classic as well as some .NET applications on
the current box that I'm concerned about reconfiguring.

Has anyone done this?  I'd love to hear about what planning I'm going to
need to do in advance and what issues you may have had to overcome.

TIA,

Jim DeMarco
Director of Application Development
Hudson Health Plan
Tarrytown, NY

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