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Welcome to the App-Service-Migration-Assistant wiki!

Getting Started

• Introducing App Service Migration Assistant for ASP.NET applications
• Migrate Your .NET Web Our New Step-By-Step Assistant - PRE10
• Start your .NET and PHP app assessments and migrations now

FAQs

1. Does App Service Migration Assistant support apps running on Windows and Linux? At this time we support .NET and PHP(new!) app migration from Windows OS to Azure App Service.

2. What are the current server requirements to use the Migration Assistant?

   • Windows server IIS version greater than or equal to 7.5
   • Administrator access
   • .NET Framework 4.7.2 Runtime
   • Outbound connections allowed (see here for details: https://github.com/Azure/App-Service-Migration-Assistant/wiki/How-the-Assistant-Works#outbound-connections)
   • Local IIS configuration (clustered / remote IIS server configurations not supported)

3. What are all the readiness checks that the Azure Migration Assistant makes?

   • App Service Migration Assistant Readiness Checks

4. What are the current list of conditions that we consider that make an application unsuitable for automatic migration? Below is the list:

   • Apps with a dependency on assemblies in the GAC that we don’t offer in our configuration
   • Apps that depend on session state that would break in our environment
   • Dependence on ISAPI filters
   • Dependence on ISAPI extensions
   • Bindings that are not HTTP or HTTPS
   • Endpoints that are not 80 for HTTP, or 443 for HTTPS
   • Authentication schemes other than anonymous
   • Dependencies on applicationhost.config settings made with a location tag
   • Applications that use more than one application pool
   • Use of an application pool that uses a custom account