>_write-host 'life as a sysadmin'
I continue to see questions and confusion about the configuration of Internet Information Services (IIS). I hope to clear up some of the confusion by the time you have finished reading this post. IIS 6 uses a file known as MetaBase.xml located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv. As the extension indicates, it is an XML file. Inside of this file is the configuration information
Read moreIf you are running multiple web sites on your IIS web server you will eventually need to know which worker process is associated with a particular application pool. It may be for baseline information or troubleshooting but at one point or another you will need to cross reference an application pool to a w3wp worker process. Opening up Task Manager
Read moreI recently came across a need to automatically recycle an application pool. I have a VBScript version in my archive of scripts but I’m trying to convert everything over to PowerShell. Here’s a working PowerShell snippet that works for recycling IIS7.x application pools. APPPOOLNAME needs to be replaced with the actual name of the application pool and SERVERNAME needs to
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