Things you can do by piping appcmd commands

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• Great post - I've been meaning to cover this myself for too long! This should be very useful for server admins ...
  
  Mike
  

• great post! Very cool scenarios that most people probably don't realize AppCmd is capable of.
  

• so is powershell beneath it? If it has to work with ServerCore and then possibly that is not possible.
  

• Govind, appcmd is not using powershell for this. It has its own implementation and so will work on servercore as well.
  

• great post! Very cool scenarios that most people probably don't realize AppCmd is capable of
  

• Hi Kanwal,
  
  First, thank you very much for posting all these examples! It is very helpful.
  
  I seem to be having trouble adding a virtual directory to each IIS site. I thought this should work:
  
  appcmd list site -xml | appcmd add vdir -in /path:/mydir /physicalpath:c:\mydir
  
  I thought SITE.NAME, from "list site", would automatically be used as the required app.name, in "add vdir". It is not.
  
  Was the task of 'adding a virtual directory to each site' considered, in the creation of the appcmd tool?
  
  If so, could you please share with me how to do this? If not, could it please be considered for the next version of appcmd? I undestand Mike created this tool, and is no longer with Microsoft.. so, I'm not sure if this tool will get any updates..
  
  I've also posted this question to forums.iis.net.
  
  Thanks very much, in advance for your time!,
  -Aaron
  

• Hi Kanwal,
  
  That forums.iis.net URL is: http://forums.iis.net/p/1176391/1974795.aspx#1974795
  
  Thanks,
  -Aaron
  

• I need to find a way to check if a Web Site and it's AppPool already exist. If so, then I need to install/update the Web Apps within the Web Site and recycle the App Pool. If they site and pool do not exist, then I need to create them, deploy the applications and start the App Pool. Below is what I've been trying to do in a .cmd file in IIS7. The problem is if I give it a website that doesn't exist, it still hits the "echo %_WebSiteName% Found!"
  
  @echo off
  cls
  echo.
  :NextArgument
  set _ArgCurrentOriginal=%*
  set _ArgCurrent=%~1
  
  echo _ArgCurrentOriginal=%_ArgCurrentOriginal%
  echo _ArgCurrent=%_ArgCurrent%
  echo.
  
  set _WebSiteName="%_ArgCurrent%"
  echo _WebSiteName=%_WebSiteName%
  echo.
  
  
  echo appcmd list site %_WebSiteName% /text:name
  echo.
  
  set _AppCmdLine=appcmd list site %_WebSiteName% /text:name
  
  call %_AppCmdLine% > websitename.txt
  echo list file content
  type websitename.txt
  echo.
  
  echo Load file content
  set _FoundName=websitename.txt
  echo.
  
  echo _FoundName="%_FoundName%"
  echo.
  
  IF /I NOT("%_FoundName%"=="") (
  echo %_WebSiteName% Not Found!
  ) else (
  echo %_WebSiteName% Found!
  )
  echo.
  
  pause
  

• Hi Kanwal,
  
  Does appcmd's 'set config' support the '/in' switch? As in this example:
  
  C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe list site /xml | C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config /in /section:isapiFilters /+"[name='MyFilter',path='C:\my_filter.dll']"
  
  I've also posted this question on Mike's blog: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/06/19/Do-complex-IIS-management-tasks-easily-with-AppCmd-command-piping.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
  
  I've also posted this question in the IIS.net forums: http://forums.iis.net/p/1182209/1998492.aspx#1998492
  
  Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer,
  -Aaron Neff
  

• Does anyone know how to change the order of existing ISAPIFilters using appcmd? GUI equivalent is to use "View Ordered List" and use Move Up and Down.