IIS Migration

[KyleWhite]

Hi All,

 

Just wanted to run a scenario by you all and find out how some of you have gone about doing it!

 

We currently have a 2008 R2 VM with IIS 7 / mySQL running a large amount of websites; and we'd like to shift them over to a new 2012 R2 server running IIS 8.5 / mySQL.

 

I've had a quick look around looking at Web Deploy etc - but mostly the guides are based on II6 to 7, not sure if the same would apply in our scenario. Similarly; could we theoretically just export the SQL databases from the old server as backups and restore into a new server and everything *should* work?

 

Hopefully someone else has performed a similar migration and could help shine some light on it!

 

Thanks in advance

 

Kyle