The IIS Sites Transfer program is designed to transfer web sites from Microsoft Internet Information Server version 6 (IIS 6) to another IIS 6 server. The program also allows to transfer Windows 2003 users from one server to another and copy FTP logins, virtual directories, Web/FTP folders structure and assign NTFS folders permissions.

It is a unique tool. There are no such tools as this one, which allows easy transfer lots of web sites at a time, including all usernames, permissions and so on.

IIS Sites Transfer utility does not require a clean installation of Internet Information Services! Moreover, the tool can even help you to transfer any selected group of websites, so you can distribute your websites easily to adjust the servers load.

The most outstanding feature of this tool is that it is able to transfer websites even if the IISAdmin service is not running on the source server! You do not need the source server to be up and running, you just need to have the metabase.xml file from the server. This makes the IIS Sites Transfer program not only a migration and balancing utility, it is also a disaster recovery tool.

Note:

• The tool does not help to copy files between servers. But there are a lot of tools and different methods to do so. For example, you can zip (using WinZIP or WinRAR) the files and FTP the archive.
• The IIS Sites Transfer tool does not help to export/import SSL certificates. Please read this article if you need to transfer SSL certificates.
• The tool is not able to copy Administrators user group between servers.

For more information, please read this manual.

We believe you hate SPAM (especially if it was sent by your customer from your server and you are blacklisted), don't you?

The IIS SMTP Monitor program (Windows service) is a tool for IIS 6 Pickup folder monitoring. The tool saves the following information in its log file: File Name, File Owner (Windows Account Name), First N bytes of the file (e-mail message). Believe it or not, it is free!

Windows web hosting providers do need this tool to stop outgoing SPAM. If you allow to send mail with ASP or PHP scripts with CDONTS or CDOSYS, your web hosting clients are able to send SPAM from your servers anonymously. And then it gets very difficult to track it down and stop SPAM. As a result, your server is blacklisted and all your customers have problems now. To avoid this you should install IIS SMTP Monitor.

You should also use unique Windows User Names for your IIS websites. Do not use IUSR_computername for all websites. Instead create and assign a new account for each site. E.g. IUSR_SiteNameHere. Actually all decent web hosting control panels do this automatically.

If you have IIS SMTP Monitor installed, you can see the origin (the owner username) of outgoing SPAM messages sent by your customers. And you can find the website by its unique user name and STOP SPAM.

For more information, please read this document.