Microsoft Workloads on AWS
Author: Najath Hussain
A System Engineer in the AWS EMP team. Najath is obsessed with identifying and resolving application compatibility issues that arise when they are migrated from one Windows platform to another. He has over 10 years of application virtualization, packaging, deployment and migration experience across a wide variety of enterprise organisations.
How to migrate legacy IIS-based applications to new versions of Windows Server without refactoring using AWS EMP
Many organizations have legacy Internet Information Services (IIS) based applications that run on Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2. These versions of Windows Server are no longer supported and customers are looking into ways to migrate these legacy applications onto modern Windows Server and IIS-based versions without having to rewrite the application. The AWS EMP tooling provides the necessary tools to migrate an IIS 6.0, 7.0, and 7.5 based application and any other application dependencies the IIS website may have onto a modern, secure, and supported Windows Server version