[thelist] Transitioning websites from IIS5 to IIS6 (metabase)

[pete]

I am faced with moving 120 or so virtual websites on my W2K/IIS5
server to a new box running a fresh W2K3/IIS6 installation.

Can I simply backup the IIS5 metabase and import it into IIS6? Is
there a 3rd party tool that could be used to accomplish this?

Doing this operation manually would be extremely labour intensive, and
I'm convinced there must be a way. I found this URL:

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020227.htm

However, it deals with IIS5 -> IIS5 transfers. I know that IIS6 uses
an XML metabase format; does that help or hinder this process? Is
there logic to installing W2K, copying the metabase, and then
upgrading to W2K3?

TIA

Pete