Greetings All,
I have a bunch of web applications that I have deployed to a Windows Server 2003 server. The server is not behaving well and I need to move all of the web applications and web services to a new Windows 2008 Server.
I am really guessing at this. Could it be that easy? Seems not. The first web application I tried did not work.
I don't really know IIS 7.0.
I am guessing that I have to convert the directories shown in IIS 7.0 to applications. I have done this before. And I was prompted to enter a user id and password for the application. In the past, I used the Administrator user id and password. Now I know that was wrong. First, we changed the Administrator domain password and everything on the server stopped working until I screwed around for hours recreating the 'applications' for each web site and web service. So I don't want to to go through that again. Also, I don't think I should be using Admin rights for a web service.
Somehow, this all seems to get done magically and correctly when you deploy via PB.
Can someone kindly tell me please...
1) What is PB doing during the deploy to a web server on the domain? What is it doing to create web applications, permissions and what user id is it using?
2) How can I replicate that manually while I am manually migrating the web applications and web services to a new Windows 2008 Server?
Thanks everyone!!
Paul