Things you can do by piping appcmd commands
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Jun 17, 2007
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Here are some of the cool things you can do by piping appcmd commands together in IIS7.
Application Pools
1. Recycle all application pools (replace recycle with start/stop to start/stop all apppools)
appcmd list apppool /xml | appcmd recycle apppool /in
2. Stop application pools with word "cheap" in it
appcmd list apppool /name:"$=*cheap*" /xml | appcmd stop apppool /in
3. Set property enable32BitAppOnWin64 to true for all apppools (Filter apppools as in 2 if needed)
appcmd list apppool /xml | appcmd set apppool /in /enable32BitAppOnWin64:true
4. Start apppools which are stopped
appcmd list apppool /state:Stopped /xml | appcmd start apppool /in
5. Recycle application pools which are used in some applications
appcmd list app /xml | appcmd list apppool /in /xml | appcmd recycle apppool /in
appcmd list app /xml | appcmd recycle apppool /in (This might recycle one apppool multiple times)
6. Recycle apppools serving website “Default Web Site”
appcmd list site "Default Web Site" /xml | appcmd list app /in /xml | appcmd list apppool /in /xml | appcmd recycle apppool /in
appcmd list app /site.name:"Default Web Site" /xml | appcmd list apppool /in /xml | appcmd recycle apppool /in
Sites
7. Start all the sites (Replace start with stop to stop all sites)
appcmd list site /xml | appcmd start site /in
8. Start the sites which are stopped
appcmd list site /state:stopped /xml | appcmd start site /in
9. Set serverAutoStart to false for all sites
appcmd list site /xml | appcmd set site /serverAutoStart:false /in
10. Keep sites config data and restore later
appcmd list site /config /xml > sites.xml
appcmd add sites /in < sites.xml
Applications and Vdirs
11. Delete all apps which are using a particular apppool
appcmd list apppool DefaultAppPool /xml | appcmd list app /in /xml | appcmd delete app /in
12. Move all applications in a site to NewAppPool apppool
appcmd list app /site.name:"Default Web Site" /xml | appcmd set app /in /applicationPool:NewAppPool
13. List all sites with "/test" app
appcmd list app /path:"/test" /xml | appcmd list site /in
14. List apps created by user10 (assuming all his apps under a folder whose name contains user10)
appcmd list vdir /physicalPath:"$=*user10*" /xml | appcmd list app /in
15. List sites which read from C:\inetput\wwwroot
appcmd list vdir /physicalPath:C:\inetput\wwwroot /xml | appcmd list app /xml /in | appcmd list site /in
16. List the vdirs of sites which are stopped
appcmd list site /state:stopped /xml | appcmd list app /xml /in | appcmd list vdir /in
Worker processes and Requests
17. Stop apppools of requests running for more than 60 seconds
appcmd list request /xml /time:"$>60000" | appcmd list apppool /in /xml | appcmd stop apppool /in
18. List apps served by wp 3600
appcmd list wp 3600 /xml | appcmd list apppool /xml /in | appcmd list app /in
Modules
19. Disable all managed modules
appcmd list module /preCondition:managedHandler /xml | appcmd delete module /in
20. Uninstall all native modules
appcmd list module /type:"" /xml | appcmd uninstall module /in
21. Unlock all module entries under system.webServer/modules (won’t work on vista)
appcmd list module /xml | appcmd set config /lockItem:false /in
Configuration
22. Keep config of a particular section and restore later
appcmd list config http://localhost/app1/ /section:caching /xml /config > config.xml
appcmd set config http://localhost/app1 /in < config.xml
Backups and Traces
23. Delete all backups
appcmd list backup /xml | appcmd delete backup /in
24. List sites generating 404
appcmd list trace /statusCode:404 /xml | appcmd list site /in
Hope this helps.
-Kanwal
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