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

use appcmd to export one or all the sites out then reimport into the new server. It could be iis7.0 or 7.5 When you export out using appcmd, the passwords are decrypted, then reimport and they will reencrypt.