Your network contains an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named contoso.

Migrating an IIS site with Web Deploy in the shortest time and with the least administrative effort is done by installing the Web Deployment Tool on the source server (Server1) and starting its remote agent service, msdepsvc, so the source can act as a remote sync endpoint. The actual synchronization is then triggered from the destination server (Server2) by running msdeploy.exe with the -verb:sync parameter, pulling Site1 ' s content and configuration directly from Server1 over the remote agent connection in a single pass, rather than exporting and importing packages manually. This is the standard remote-to-remote Web Deploy migration pattern for moving an IIS site between servers, and it avoids the intermediate package files and manual import steps that a packaged export/import approach would otherwise require, which is why it minimizes both migration time and administrative effort compared with alternatives such as the Windows Server Migration Tools feature. Running smigdeploy.exe on Server2 instead would only prepare that server for the unrelated general-purpose Windows Server Migration Tools workflow, which packages and transfers role/feature settings rather than syncing a live IIS site ' s content directly.