Application Pools not starting after iisreset

Question

Before I start, I know using iisreset is considered bad practice, but this shouldn\'t happen anyway..

What we have:

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Answer 1

The application pools should restart on an iisreset, but they do run outside of iis (in COM+) for reliability. This mean they may may not come back if the application is misbehaving, but IIS and the other apps will(should) come back. So yes, This is "normal".

P.S. I would also like to "OUT" myself as a proud user of iisreset. Bad practice? Bah! ;D