Changing the way redirects are handled?

[LuckyLiz]

Wen are going to be migrating a site that has a number of redirects to a new server. The redirect on the old server were created in IIS. The developer wants to put the 301 redirects in the web config file instead of doing them from IIS.

Will this change make anything look different to Google and other search engines than they do now on the old server?

[edited by: Ocean10000 at 12:11 am (utc) on Aug 17, 2014]
[edit reason] Fixed Requested Mispelling. [/edit]

[dstiles]

Depends on the server. I've just migrated several sites from windows 2003 (iis6) to windows 8 and it was all a mess!

For redirects, there is, as far as I could discover, no way for any redirection to be done outside of a config file, which means that any careless web site owner can adversely affect redirects and many other things.

NOTE: In order to create a redirect you MUST add an extra folder in which the redirect can can be placed. Otherwise the site will go mental! I created mine in the site's parent root: ie at the same level as public_html and www_logs.

Search engines should not be phased by this change. It only affects the mental balance of the server / site manager. :)

I rue the day I listened to someone who told me MS would solve all my problems. :(