How to deploy IIS 6.0 MetaBase to server group

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From: Terry (Terry_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:15:05 -0800

I have spent days trying to determine the best way to deploy our MetaBase
changes to a server group and cannot be confident that I have the answer.

The best result has been with using:

> iiscnfg /copy /s stage01 /u dom\user /p pass /ts prod01 /tu dom\user /tp pass

The documentation says that /copy "changes the computer-specific and
system-specific properties in the metabase so that they are valid on the
target computer."

I read the iiscnfg.vbs script, and can not see where any metabase
information is changed. It simply maps the admin$ shares on the 2 computers
issues the command:

> iisback /backup /s svr1 /u usr /p pwd /b iisreplback /overwrite

Next it copies the backup files to the target computer and issues:

> iisback /restore /s svr1 /u usr /p pwd /b iisreplback

It never changes anything in the metabase as far as I can see. So the
question is, are the AdminACLs and IUSR and IWAM account settings valid on
the target server?

Everything seems to work. The only problem is that the /copy command creates
local IUSR and IWAM accounts on the destination server that match the source
server name.

Before I use this method to build my production Web servers, can anyone tell
me if this is not a valid way to do a metabase deployment. Any advice would
be greatly appreciated.

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