Crikey

So far, so good. A few broken parts that worked perfectly well in IIS 6.0 that just won't work with IIS 7.5 but nothing that's critical; my favorite web stats software that I've been using for about 10 years, the download search area and stuff like that.

Which is kinda weird as Microsoft's strong suite has always been supporting legacy code. Guess they finally realized it was hurting them overall.

I think I can rewrite it given enough time and I have a spare server locally as well as a copy of 2008 so I'll eventually throw that together and throw some frustration at it. Or not.

Ah, yes, I decided not to press my luck and try and migrate the old forum software over plus it was pretty musty and I haven't gotten around to updating navigation.

Good catch on the icons, I'll see if I can hunt them down before the old server goes way, expect those were some custom icons I loaded.

Thanks, I'll put it on the list, should be easy to find them.

A day of frustration as expected. Threw 2008 on the old server but no NIC and I couldn't figure out what chipset it had. Threw on Win2k and it told me, reinstalled 2008 but none of the drivers will work, the latest I can find are for Win2k.

Sigh, it is a 10 year old box.

Wasn't a problem at all.

I guess the third time really is the charm. Tried the 2nd old server and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to boot from CD. I recall it was hinkey back in the day as I had to install an IDE card to drive the DVD drive as the integrated IDE interface only supported CD. Tried everything but no dice. Plus it had been unplugged for so long the BIOS had lost settings and I wasn't absolutely sure I had everything sorted out there.

So I threw it on the box I hope to use as a WHS upgrade one of these days if and when hard drive prices come down.

Worked fine. Have installed updates and I'll take a swing at publishing on it and using it for a test bed tomorrow.