Preparing for Migration

Before migrating your existing IIS Web sites, ensure that the Web sites, applications, and their components are compatible with Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0. If you have setup programs or provisioning scripts that you are currently using on the source server and that you intend to continue using after migration, then ensure that the setup programs and provisioning scripts are compatible with Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0.

In addition, determine whether the existing Web sites and applications are compatible with worker process isolation mode in IIS 6.0. In cases where the existing Web sites and applications are not compatible with worker process isolation mode, you can still migrate to IIS 6.0 and Windows Server 2003 ...

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