Migrating IIS from one server to another ...

I had to move IIS server from server A to server B and was faced with lengthy task of manually creating all virtual directories ...
Then I thought that there must be easier way to handle that and there it was
Link to source "Migrating IIS"

To summarize it basically includes following steps:

1.  Create back up on IIS server A (with password)
2.  Grab the backup from following location: ..\system32\inetsrv\metaback
3.  Copy backup to server B on the same location ..\system32\inetsrv\metaback
4.  Run restore on IIS server B pointing to created backup
5.  When IIS ask for password provide it and that's it :-)