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New features in configuration system and appcmd in IIS 7.5

Kanwaljeet Singla — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:48:00 +0000

Following new features have been added to IIS configuration system and appcmd command line tool in IIS 7.5.

Configuration System

1. Configuration system tracing and logging

Things you can do by piping appcmd commands

Kanwaljeet Singla — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:16:00 +0000

Here are some of the cool things you can do by piping appcmd commands together in IIS7.

Application Pools

1. Recycle all application pools (replace recycle with start/stop to start/stop all apppools)
appcmd list apppool /xml | appcmd recycle apppool /in

2. Stop application pools with word "cheap" in it
appcmd list apppool /name:"$=*cheap*" /xml | appcmd stop apppool /in
3. Set property enable32BitAppOnWin64 to true for all apppools (Filter apppools as in 2 if needed)

Steps to enable tracing using appcmd

Kanwaljeet Singla — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:45:00 +0000

Here are the steps you need to enable tracing for a site using appcmd.

1. Enable tracing for site. 2. Enable tracing for all request paths and for all response codes. 3. Appcmd leaves verbosity to default value “warning”. Get the providers count to change verbosity in step 4.

AppcmdUI – appcmd command autocompletion tool

Kanwaljeet Singla — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:29:00 +0000

Do you always find yourself using “/?” in appcmd to find what switches you need? Do you always run “appcmd list” commands to see the list of apppools/sites/apps/traces etc before actually running the command? Do you always end up opening schema when working with "appcmd config" commands? Worry no more. I have written AppcmdUI to alleviate your pains. AppcmdUI provides you available options at each step so that you only need to pick the option from the list as in the snapshot below.