Questions tagged [application-pools]
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IIS backup is backing up old history not new live data from IIS (All sites and Pools not new)
Windows 2016 Core Servers / IIS10
==IMPORTANT==
The backup seems to be backing up OLD data.
It seems that it is picking up on history instead of backing up the LIVE data.
This will explain WHY it is not getting all the sites and pools during the…

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IIS -- procedure to ensure new version of deployed web app is the one actually used
I am using IIS, Version 10 on Windows Server 2016.
When I deploy a new Web app it goes under "Sites" with an organization of:
ServerNameA and then several sites, including MySiteA, which uses ApplicationPoolA.
After successful deployment, I can…

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Is it hard for a server, to host 30 000 websites + 30000 databases, with 3 users on each a day?
Is it hard for a server with 500 Ram, to host 30 000 websites + 30000 databases, with 3 users on each a day?
Thats for Windows Server 2008, IIS7

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Application Pool set to AlwaysRunning does not Auto Start The Hosted Service
I have configured an pool to auto-start and never sleep. I am having problems with the auto-start. My understanding is that a thread pool worker will be started after a recycle when that happens I would assume the application entry point would be…

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How can I find out what triggered an app pool recycle inside a docker container that just started?
In AWS, a Task is placed on an EC2 instance, and an ASP.NET WebAPI 2 app is started in a docker container.
The root site is empty, and the "/myapp" subdirectory contains the running web app.
The application pool is configured to auto-start and…

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Restart IIS App Pool Automatically
We have a web application that is not completely bulletproof, and on occasion the application pool will die off and not restart without user input. Once it is restarted, it will run just fine for days or even months. Is there a way to have it…

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How to get an email alert if IIS App pool stops/crashes?
I'm seeing a lot of PowerShell scripts out there which checks the status of the IIS App Pools in a server, and sends an email if it is in a Stopped state. Although the script is useful, it would need to be run at a frequent interval to check the App…

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What's the best way to monitor a large number of application pools in IIS7?
Some background first - We're running IIS 7 on Windows 2008. We're running around 250 websites per server with each site in it's own application pool.
I need a way to monitor each application pool for crashes and hangs and to send an email alert if…

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will a shutdown of a worker process for pool a affect pool b
I have two pools running on the same server.
I noticed one of them is configured to a 20 min idle timeout, and the other is 180 mins.
I can see this message in event viewer:
"A worker process with process id of '1964' serving application pool 'A'…

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Failed to write metabase key
I'm running IIS7.5 on Windows 7, and it's got IIS6 Compatibility installed due to requirements from our current product installer.
After successfully installing our product, I realized I needed to reinstall some other software that it relies on. …

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Application isolation issue on IIS 10 (Windows 2016 Server)
I'm setting up a new machine for hosting multiple asp.net applications. My goal is to isolate the apps as strongly as possible. In case one of the apps is hacked, all other apps should be safe.
I have a default configuration. There is a c:\wwwroot…

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How To Monitor IIS App Pool Password Changes
I have run into an issue where a single sites App Pool Identity password is being randomly changed to the password of a different App Pool Identity. The App pool ID username does not change just the password. The IIS logs and Event Viewer logs show…

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OWA and IIS Application Pools - recommended Recycling policy?
My sys-admin colleagues have an Exchange 2003 R2 SP2 server running Outlook Web Access (OWA) through an IIS 6 server (naturally).
OWA seems to crash every couple of weeks. Looking at the Application Pool recycling in IIS, I notice that all of the…

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IIS App Pool Crashes with AppPoolIdentity identity, not with NetworkService
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2
IIS: 7.5
No Managed Code
I am trying to nail down the issue here. I am not sure if it was precipitated by some change from a group policy (I don't have any control over that) or from installing some Windows Update.
All…

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IIS 7 Application Pool Crash how to debug
We have several websites configured on our windows server 2012 and we noticed that one site seems crashing intermittently and the only way to get back this online is to restart that particular site and for some reason recycle application pool seems…

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