Comments on: Migrating websites from IIS6 to IIS7

By: Micheal Kilpatric

Micheal Kilpatric — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:34:08 +0000

One thing to note: When creating archive copies of sites (if you have multiple or one), and you get the error about a property being marked as secure (ex: Error: The property ‘blob’ located at ‘/metaKey[@path='/lm/w3svc/584088123']/metaProperty[@name='SSLCertHash']/cert’ is marked as secure. You must specify an encryption password to archive this property.
Error count: 1.), you must then use the option encrpytPassword= for both SOURCE and DESTINATION (if archiving or migrating sites).

My example command that was successful: (I was migrating individual sites from within my core IIS6 server to a 64 bit IIS7 server)

C:\temp\archiveALL\178644647>msdeploy -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/584088
123,encryptpassword=abc1 -dest:archivedir=c:\temp\archiveALL\584088123,encryptPa
ssword=abc1 -allowUntrusted > c:\temp\archiveall\584088123.log

Just to help those that may run across this, as I couldn’t find it anywhere on the correct syntax of the encryptPassword setting.

By: TP

TP — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:40:35 +0000

Hey Tom,

I encountered this problem (so far on 64-bit OS’s) on win2K3 and win2K8 (not only IIS realted but SharePoint too (Stsadm.exe) and its because you copied and pasted the command from a website. It seems silly I know, try and type the whole command in manually and it should work.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:55:29 +0000

Executing MSDeploy results in:

C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy>msdeploy -verb:getDependencies -source
:metakey=lm/w3svc/876095251
Error: Unrecognized argument ‘-verb:getDependencies’. All arguments must begin
with -
Error count: 1

C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy>msdeploy -verb:getDependencies -source
:metakey=lm/w3svc/876095251
Error: Object of type ‘metaKey’ and path ‘lm/w3svc/876095251′ cannot be created

Error: The metabase key ‘/lm/w3svc/876095251′ could not be found.
Error: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
Error count: 1

What is wrong?

/Tom

By: Confluence: IT Knowledgebase

Confluence: IT Knowledgebase — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:48:35 +0000

IIS 6 to IIS 7 Migration Steps…

Install MSDeploy on each server. Make sure to use the proper type (x86 or x64) x86…

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:33:32 +0000

Hi Chris

Is it at all possible to have only the XML/Metadata/SiteInfo exported, instead of doing a full data archive with site info?

The situation I’m in is this, I have a IIS6 website and wish to migrate it to IIS7, but there are certain file locks on files in the source data directory. Another problem I have, is that, using the example you’ve given above, I don’t get any ACL info.

The end result is that the archiving process fails, and the XMLs arent created.

The easiest solution from me, would be to get the site info across (so that I have the websites and their associated virtual directories etc), and then restore the data by hand to the IIS7 machine.

Any ideas on my errors, or how to get the end result I require?

Tx,
Justin