Start/Stop App Pool IIS6.0 with Powershell or command line

Question

I\'m using IIS 6.0 and looking for a way to stop/start the app pool. I know there is a stop-appPool for powershell in 7.0 but using 6.0. :-( So does anyone have a powersh

Answer 1

If you wish to do this remotely, and / or on a machine without powershell you can modify the script posted here.

It uses WMI to access and recycle the app pool, from VBScript. It's a trivial change to make it stop / start pools instead of recycling them, you just need to call .Stop or .Start on the app pool in question.

The meat of the script is paraphrased below:

strServer = "LocalHost" 'Server name goes here
strAppPoolName = "MyAppPool" 'App pool name goes here

'Connect to the specified server using WMI
set Locator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Locator.Security_.AuthenticationLevel = 6
set Service = locator.connectserver(strServer,"root/MicrosoftIISv2")

'Get a collection of WMI apppools
set APCollection = Service.InstancesOf("IISApplicationPool")

For each APInstance in APCollection
    If UCase(ApInstance.Name) = UCase("W3SVC/AppPools/" & strAppPoolName) Then
        WScript.Echo "Recycling " & strServer & "/" & APInstance.Name
            ' You can do any of these things depending you what you want to do.
            APInstance.Recycle
            APInstance.Stop
            APInstance.Start
        End If
    Next

If you have some kind of command line / batch toolchain which you want to integrate this into, you can execute a VBScript file in command line mode by calling:

CScript.exe \NoLogo MyScriptFile.vbs

The \NoLogo switch removes the VBScript interpreter startup messages and running it with CScript.exe means that calls to WScript.Echo go to the command line rather than a popup window.