Creating a Web Site from a Template

If you have a standard Web site configuration that you use or plan to use frequently, you can use IIS Manager to create a Web site template. To do this, export the configuration of the site to a file, and then use that file to create new sites. The exported configuration is stored as a metabase XML configuration file; it does not contain content. After you export the configuration file, you can import that file into a different directory on the same Web server or to a different Web server.

You can also export and import sites and application pools as configuration files to quickly migrate sites and application pools between servers. This feature allows you to import Web applications if the developer stored the ...

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