Recently I was having a conversation with one of Web Deploy (MSDeploy) users and an interesting scenario came up. He essentially wanted to move his site from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7 and wanted to consider Web Deploy to do this. In addition he actually was fine with just xCopy-ing the site's content from IIS6 server to IIS7 server as it was almost 6GB+ in size and trying to create a zip package for it was not most the optimal way of using resources, nevertheless creating a zip package using Web Deploy for just the IIS configuration is what was certainly desirable due to ease of portability & use. I thought this would be a good opportunity to write a quick note to share with you that migration from IIS 6 to IIS 7 was one of the original...(read more) ...
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