Internet Information Services (IIS) 6 Resource Kit

Back Up and Restore Registry Entries

Some COM objects, COM+ objects, Internet Server API (ISAPI) extensions, and other components save configuration information in the Windows registry. If no setup program or provisioning script exists to make the appropriate registry updates during migration, you must manually identify the registry entries and then recreate them on the target server. To accomplish this, once you have identified the registry entries required by the applications currently running on the source server, back up the registry entries on the source server by using the registry editor Regedit.exe. Modify the registry entries in the backup files created by the registry editor to reflect changes in disk volume drive letters or paths to ...