Managing the Migration Process

Server and Network Environment

Drawing from a survey of your current Web servers, along with their functions, utilization level, and relationships with other servers on the network, you can determine which services to migrate to IIS 5.0 and how to integrate them in the service environment. In addition, a network environment survey can help you characterize the current network and its resources. It will tell you, for example, the names and locations of Web servers, proxies, and gateways, numbers of local and remote users, and access points. You can find sample forms to use for conducting this survey, titled “Organization Environment Survey” (OrgEnvir.doc) and “Technical Environment Survey” (TechEnvi.doc), on the Resource Kit companion CD.

You might also want to perform a traffic analysis for estimating capacity requirements. For more information about doing this, see Capacity Planning in this book.