Tuesday 18 February 2014

What does iisreset do?

When you use iisreset command, the IIS Admin Service, the Windows Process Activation Service (WAS), and the World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW Service) are stopped and restarted.

  • IISReset stops and restarts the entire web server.
  • Recycling an app pool will only affect applications running in that app pool.
  • Editing the web.config in a web application only affects that web application.
  • Editing the machine.config on the machine will recycle all app pools running.
  • IIS monitors the /bin directory of your application. Whenever a change is detected in those dlls, it will recycle the app and re-load those new dlls. It also monitors the web.config & machine.config in the same way and performs the same action for the applicable apps.

Where is the IIS Admin Service in IIS 7?

IIS Admin Service in not required in IIS 7 for as long as you are not using IIS Metabase compatibility feature or FTP 6 publishing services.

The interesting fact is that IIS can run without IIS admin service, Click here for the details.

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