"superdave" <superdave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My organization is moving from IIS 5 on a Windows 2000 server to a new
> Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6. My plan was to use the IIS Migration
tool,
> however, higher ups have decdided to basically recreate the sites on the
2003
> server and copy the inetpub info from the 2000 server to the 2003 server.
> Therefore, we can keep the sites running on the 2000 server and internally
> test the 2003 box before we make the DNS changes with our ISP. Has anyone
> tried this method before. To me, it doesn't seem the correct way to go.

<superdave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My organization is moving from IIS 5 on a Windows 2000 server to a new
>Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6. My plan was to use the IIS Migration tool,
>however, higher ups have decdided to basically recreate the sites on the 2003
>server and copy the inetpub info from the 2000 server to the 2003 server.
>Therefore, we can keep the sites running on the 2000 server and internally
>test the 2003 box before we make the DNS changes with our ISP. Has anyone
>tried this method before. To me, it doesn't seem the correct way to go.