Migrating a Web Server to IIS 5.0

It is recommended that you do the following when upgrading or replicating an IIS Web server:

Back up the metabase. To do this, from the IIS snap-in, right-click the computer name, choose Backup/Restore Settings, click Backup, type a name for the backup file, and then click OK. Or you can use the Iissync utility to replicate the metabase.
Use the Iissync utility to replicate configuration settings to a different computer, as described in the “Replication and Clustering in IIS” topic of the IIS 5.0 online product documentation.
Back up all Web and FTP site content as well as security certificates to a different computer. You can use XCopy, included in the Windows 2000 operating system, to copy the Web directory structure recursively and preserve security settings.
Write down the Web site names and IP addresses.
Use one of the approaches listed in the previous section to upgrade or replicate the server to the upgraded or new IIS server.
Add all the IP addresses to the Network Information Center (NIC) on the upgraded or new server and configure the network accordingly.
Install Microsoft® Internet Explorer on the upgraded or new server.
In the IIS snap-in, assign IP addresses to the virtual directories.
Make sure that the IUSR account agrees with the IIS snap-in and User Manager for domains.
Using FrontPage Server Administrator, apply new FrontPage Extensions to the Web sites.