Exporting and Importing Sites and App Pools from IIS 7 and 7.5
Thanks to: http://www.microsoftpro.nl/ When you create a website in IIS 7 or 7.5 a unique application pool will also be created and used by this website, that’s why you need to import these application pools first on the second webserver before importing the website(s). To Export the Application Pools on IIS 7 : %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list apppool /config /xml > c:\apppools.xml This will export all the application pools on your webserver, therefor you need to edit the apppools.xml and remove the application that you do not need to import for example: DefaultAppPool Classic .NET AppPool SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool And other apppools that already exist on the second webserver, appcmd doesn’t skip already existing apppools, it just quit’s and doesn’t import any. To import the Application Pools: %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd add apppool /in < c:\apppools.xml All the AppPools in the xml will be created on your second webserver. T...