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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, application pools, 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, pools 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 even 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.

Please take a look at IIS Sites Transfer Quick Start Guide to see how easy it is to migrate websites with this program.

No installation required! No configuration required.
Just run it and enjoy.

Note:

• You need to have metabase.xml file from the source server to accomplish the sites transfer.
  MetaBase.xml is an XML file containing IIS configuration settings. Its default location is
  C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\
• 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.

IIS Pools - IIS Application Pools Monitoring

• This program allows monitoring of IIS 6 application pools.
• All the monitoring data is stored in log files.
• It is possible to analyze a pool to find a website (or a virtual application) using too much resources.

Note: Current version of the program allows monitoring and logging of both CPU and RAM usage. But there is an auto-analysis of CPU usage only.

For more information, please read this document.

No installation required! Just run it and enjoy.

IIS Passwords Sync is a command line tool. And it is free!

IIS 6.0 web sites run under anonymous user accounts. It is IUSR_<machine name> (by default) or other user accounts created by your web hosting control panel. The users’ passwords are set automatically and are never known. However, sometimes for some reason the passwords get out of sync or corrupted and need to be reset. The easiest way to reset these passwords is to use IIS Passwords Sync program. It extracts the passwords that Microsoft IIS 6.0 has in its metabase and updates the accounts in Local Users and Groups to use that passwords.

Run synciis.exe to see IIS Passwords Sync command line syntax.

Note:

• After the passwords synchronization you have to restart Internet Information Services (IIS 6.0) by using its MMC Manager snap-in or iisreset.exe program.
• If there are 2 or more websites running under the same user account the password will be taken from one of them only, even if they have different passwords.

No installation required! No configuration required.
Just run it and enjoy.

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

The IIS SMTP Monitor program (Windows service) is a tool for IIS 7 (and 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.

No installation required! Just run it and enjoy.

IIS Report is a command line tool. It allows to create different IIS related reports. For example it can get the list of all SSL websites and sort it by IP address, or get the list of all websites and sort it by application pool name and then by website name, etc.

No installation required. Just start the program this way:

to get more information and see all the parameters available.

No installation required! No configuration required. Just run it and enjoy.

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