Contents tagged with appcmd

  • IISRESET light

    Note: This blog entry used to be on my old blog. I'm about to shut it down so I thought I replicate some of the content here.
    Many IIS customers use IISRESET to get IIS back into a vanilla state. IISRESET is a pretty heavy hammer however and not needed most of the time - why would you restart FTP, WAS and W3SVC and all worker processes just because one of your web applications is locking a DLL or some content. Recycling the Application Pool causing the problem is usually enough. If you don't know which Application Pool is making the trouble you can recycle all of them. Here is how you do it with APPCMD: