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

You could create a function to stop or start the application pool remotely as below:

function StopOrStartAppPool($RemoteServerName, $AppPoolName, $commandWebPool)
{  

    if ($commandWebPool -eq "Stop")
    { 
       $wmiprocess = [wmiclass]"\\$RemoteServerName\root\cimv2:win32_process"
       $wmiprocess.create("cscript.exe C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs STOP_SERVER W3SVC/AppPools/$AppPoolName -s:$RemoteServerName")  
    }
    else
    {
       $wmiprocess = [wmiclass] "\\$RemoteServerName\root\cimv2:win32_process"
       $wmiprocess.create("cscript.exe C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs START_SERVER W3SVC/AppPools/$AppPoolName -s:$RemoteServerName")      
    }
}