When you move the service:
All the Windows Web Hosting service components provisioned to the organization are moved from one resource to another resource.
The time required to successfully complete the move service operation depends upon the data of the organization.
While the move service operation for an organization is in progress, its users cannot use the Windows Web Hosting service. It is important that you inform the users about the duration that the service cannot be used.
Before you can move an organization's services, you need to ensure that the resource where you want to move the service to meets the following requirements:
The Windows Web Hosting service must be installed on the resource.
It must have sufficient service resources for the organization.
During the move operation, the organization's data is copied on the new resource in the same location as it was on the old resource. So if the organization's data is not stored on the system drive of the old resource, but on another drive such as D drive, ensure that the new resource also has this drive available; otherwise the move operation will fail.
If you want to move the Windows Web Hosting service of a load-balanced organization, then you must first demote the organization to a non-load-balanced one, move this organization to a new resource, then promote it to a load-balanced organization.
Moving an organization's Windows Web Hosting service
You can move the Windows Web Hosting service for an organization from one resource (server) to another. This is useful when:
When an organization's service has exhausted the disk space on the existing resource and needs to be moved to another one.
You want to shut down a resource to fix some hardware issues or to upgrade its hardware, and therefore want to move the organization's service temporarily to a new resource.
You want to upsell an organization to a resource that has better performance and features than the current one.
What happens when you move the service?
What to do before you move the service?
Important: When the Windows Web Hosting service of an IP-based organization is moved to another resource, the old subnet mask is used on the new resource.
To move an organization's Windows Web Hosting service:
On the left navigation panel, in the Organizations section, click List Organizations.
On the List Organizations page, select the organization whose Windows Web Hosting service you want to move, then click Overview.
On the Organization Overview page, click the Services tab.
On the Services page, select the Windows Web Hosting service, then click Move.
On the Move Organization Service to New Server page, choose the destination pool, then choose the server or resource you want to move the service to.
Click Save. An action log displays the status of this task.
After the action log displays the task as successfully completed, click OK.
The organization's Windows Web Hosting service is moved successfully to another resource.