New features in configuration system and appcmd in IIS 7.5

Following new features have been added to IIS configuration system and appcmd command line tool in IIS 7.5.

Configuration System

1.       Configuration system tracing and logging
In IIS 7.5, IIS native configuration system can generate trace events capturing all IIS configuration activity. Because all IIS administrative tools (WMI, appcmd, MWA, UI, Powershell etc) call into native configuration system, events are generated irrespective of which administrative tool is used to read/write IIS configuration. Tracing is not enabled by default. You can go to “Application and Service Logs->Microsoft->Windows->IIS-Configuration” in event viewer and enable tracing. IIS generates 4 kinds of events. These are administrative, operational, analytic and debug. Right click on areas in event viewer and select “enable log” for categories you want to enable tracing. Read more ...

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  • To start the application pool, you can use "appcmd start apppool ". To start all application pools you can use "appcmd list apppool /xml | appcmd start apppool /in".

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