So far, it's been surprisingly easy to migrate my webserver and blog to IIS7 (from which this blog entry is being served). I basically xcopied my inetpub/wwwroot directory and granted r/w access to NETWORK SERVICE. The "tricky" part I was dreading was cert management - but it was amazingly easy; I basically copied the certificates I got from SBS over to the new machine, double-clicked on them (which put them in the "default" places), then exported my IIS cert on the old machine and imported on the new machine. Had my linksys redirect HTTP and HTTPS traffic to the new machine. All done. So far I've fully tested the http/https paths to the main page (boy, that's old, I need to put something new there :-)); the blog; and the web services (both the ASMX and the WCF versions). I'm not 100% sure I have CardSpace working yet - will test tomorrow... I like the new IIS admin UI but it does take some getting used to. Fortunately I've played around with it enough on my Vista boxes to get the hang of it, but for people who are used to the old MMC interface, I can imagine it may be a bit frustrating at first (it was for me). But overall, a much cleaner interface that does simplify many things that were difficult/unintuitive (e.g. cert management).
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