Moving Secret Server to another machine

If you are moving Secret Server to a new machine, you can follow these steps:

Moving the web server to a new machine?

1. Disable the "Force HTTPS/SSL" option on the Secret Server configuration page. If you are also moving the SQL Server database, be sure to create a new copy of the database as this setting is written to it. You can re-enable the "Force HTTPS/SSL" option after you set up and install an SSL certificate on the new machine.
2. Copy the folder that holds your Secret Server instance to the new computer.
3. Shut down the old web site and recycle its application pool as it is running background threads which are accessing the database.
   
4. Set up the new folder in Internet Information Server (IIS), point it to the new Secret Server directory, and change it to an ASP .NET application. 
5. If your database server and credentials have not changed, you are now done. If they have changed, follow the steps in the next section.
6. Activate the licenses for the new server by going to the Licenses page
   

Moving the Microsoft SQL Server database to a new machine?

Article ID: 14, Created On: 7/4/2007, Modified: 8/2/2011