Stop the WWW Service
Once you have verified that no users are accessing your Web site, you can stop the World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW service) on your source computer. You can then migrate your Web sites to the target server.
Requirements
Credentials: Membership in the Administrators group on the local computer.
Tools: Iis.msc.
Recommendation
As a security best practice, log on to your computer using an account that is not in the Administrators group, and then use the Run as command to run IIS Manager as an administrator. At the command prompt, type runas /user:administrative_accountname "mmc %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\iis.msc".
▸ To stop the WWW Service in IIS 5.0
Open Administrative Tools, and then click Services.
In the Services pane, double-click ...
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