How do you migrate an IIS 7 site to another server?

Question

I\'m wondering what is the best practice for moving a website to another server (along with all settings, etc.)

• Manually recreate the site on the new server (n

Answer 1

Microsoft Web Deploy v3 can export and import all your files, the configuration settings, etc. It puts it all into a zip archive ready to import on the new server. It can even upgrade to newer versions of IIS (v7-v8).

http://www.iis.net/extensions/WebDeploymentTool

After installing the tool: Right click your server or website in IIS Management Console, select 'Deploy', 'Export Application...' and run through the export.

On the new server, import the exported zip archive in the same way.