My recommendation is: 1. Do a complete system backup and verify it for accuracy. 2. Restore the backup onto a test box. 3. Perform both the OS and IIS upgrades on the test box. 4. Install the new OS on the production box. 5. Backup test configuration. 6. Restore it onto new production box. 7. Test Test Test to make sure it now works again.
This way you should have a lot of points you can go back to when it messes up. Hope that helps Trent ----------- Trent M. Davenport - Systems Administrator Northern Television Systems Ltd - WHTV 203-4103 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1H6 (867) 393-2225 X204, (867) 393-2224 FAX www.whtvcable.com <http://www.whtvcable.com> ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dean Zingle, Optrics Inc. Sent: January 31, 2002 6:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Off-topic request An off-topic request: Can anyone recommend an efficient approach to moving a couple of hundred websites running under IIS4.0 under NT 4.0 to IIS 5.0 under W2K that does not entail hours or days of grunt work and that is also relatively accurate in terms of content and security? Is there a "better" way? Searching the web has come up with a couple of approaches and utilities including MicroSoft's own approach using their migration tool in the Server Resource Kit but none of these are very straight forward. They also do not allow you to easily change drives or IPs. Does anyone know of a utility or file that will allow you to add websites to IIS from the command line or from a template file? Any assistance or recommendation of a utility would be most sincerely appreciated as a full manual rebuild is a couple days of work at the very least. Replies can be made off-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Bording Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
