Migrating SP to a new server - Any gotchas?

[Cantor, Scott]

> Once installed I plan to just copy my etc folder from the old box to the new.
> In testing with a VM I see there are some config changes.  I plan to apply the
> following chages to my config:
> 
> <SessionCache type="StorageService" StorageService="mem"
> cacheAllowance="3600" inprocTimeout="900" cleanupInterval="900"/>

You may not want/need the element at all.

> For the next section I will put the existing XML into a file and use the file
> instead of the inline like so:

You don't want to copy the existing XML, you should just use the default security-policies file, unless there's some compelling thing you need to alter.

> Are there any other gotchas that I should look out for here in this process?

You can review the Configuration Changes page, but other than the major pare-down getting rid of the old Sessions content in favor of <SSO> I don't think there's much else that's changed significantly for IIS.

-- Scott