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moving iis application/database to another server

Hi

Client has a windows 2003 server they want to move to a windows 2012 r2 system.

I know it's a custom application and has a database (running on IIS) and "Classic ASP". I've been tasked with moving everything from the old system to the new system.

I can back up and restore the database, and I can install IIS on the new system with classic ASP, but what's involved with copying the custom application to the new server, and registering third party components with the new operating system? and then changing the connection string? Anything else you think would be required?

This is supposedly a very straightforward deal, but I've never done it before. Would appreciate any help, suggestions, or tutorials.

Thanks

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Dan McFadden

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Loganathan Natarajan

Anything else you think would be required?

What you had specified steps are correct and this is the way I used to do my classic asp app. And you need to test it with any firewall blocking those components

Mystical_Ice

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So one is running IIS6 the other (new server) is running IIS 8.

I copied the files over to the sites, but to be honest i'm not sure where to go from here.

Got the bindings set, but don't know how to find out where the connection to the database is even.
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