Can I upgrade Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 to get to IIS7 without impacting existing CS 2007 SP2 install?

Question

Hi everyone,

I've got a series of CS2007 SP2 servers running on Windows Server 2003 with IIS6 on them.  I'm looking to get things up to .net version 3.5, which from what I can tell means I'll need IIS7 - and to get to that I'll need to bump the OS up to Windows Server 2008.
If this is correct, does anyone know if I can simply do an inplace OS upgrade on the server to get IIS7 installed without affecting the existing CS2007 SP2 install?

Thanks!

Rob

Answer 1

I haven't tried in place machine upgrade but one of the option we can look is to pack commerce site on old server, upgrade the server and unpack the pub in new server.

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-Ravi Kanth Koppala

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Answer 2

Thanks for the reply Ravi.

Turns out that if you have .net 3.5 installed on your machine, you won't see it from the IIS side.
http://blogs.msdn.com/vijaysk/archive/2008/03/20/running-asp-net-3-5-on-iis.aspx

So my assumption that I needed IIS7 was incorrect; I just was thrown by not seeing that version from IIS manager.

I was able to bump my projects to compile as 3.5, along with the website and so from what I can tell things are good-to-go at the moment, just need to do more testing.

It would be nice to be able to do an inplace OS upgrade since it would save the time of rebuilding the box, but it will probably come down to doing just that - rebuild with 2008 and restore the site.  I might just try the in place OS update on my dev VM and see what happens, but it is pretty low on my list at the moment.

Have a good day!

Rob