Search results matching tag 'apppools'

Recycle App Pool Using MSDeploy

michael.it — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:20:55 GMT

Is it possible to recycle an app pool on a remote machine using MSDeploy? If so, what is the syntax for such a command? We are using IIS 6, but syntax for IIS 7 would also be appreciated if there are differences between the two.

Re: Set Application Pool Identity

Jeff B. — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:13:43 GMT

Ok, through further research I finally figured this one out... As I stated in my previous post, the encrypted passwords didn't match across systems (in the applicationHost.config file). This is because each server has a unique encryption key for IIS. Since I was calling MSDeploy.exe on a different machine, the local encryption key was being used.

There are two ways to resolve this problem that I know of (there may be others):

Run the MSDeploy.exe command locally on the machine being updated. This will use the correct encryption key.
Synchronize the encryption keys across all IIS servers. See this post for more details.

In my case, I believe I'll go with option one as it is the easiest to implement (at lest in our environment). I may make use of PsExec to run the script on the remote machine so I don't have to physically logon to the server.

Re: Set Application Pool Identity

Jeff B. — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:54:58 GMT

Thanks for the response! I'm using IIS 7.

One other question... does this have to be applied to the command line or can the settings be included in a paramters (or other) file?

--- Thanks, Jeff

Set Application Pool Identity

Jeff B. — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:11:52 GMT

Is there an MSDeploy Provider that can set the Identity for an Application Pool? For example, in one environment, a web site runs under one identity. When we promote it to another environment, we want that Application Pool to run under another identity.

Is this possible with MSDeploy?

Re: Run msdeploy.exe through ASP.net

dbuggs — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:01:37 GMT

A quick and dirty way to eliminate the insufficient privileges issue is to change the account that the app pool runs under to an admin account for a quick test.

archive metakey and dependencies

stoutenburg — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:43:03 GMT

Hi.. newbie here to msdeploy and trying to get through what are probably some basic problems:

FYI,

We have a server farm web1,2,3,4 and use DFS on our Database servers.. Basically for now I would like to be able to archive the metadatabase information just to a archive folder and test restoring that infomation and their dependancies. IE backup Delete IIS information and App pool information and restore with msdeploy.

so archiving just one site without the dependencies is fine:

msdeploy.exe -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/1 -dest:archivedir=c:\archive > webdeployarchive.log

where 1 would be changed to whatever metakey you want to back up.. but how do I make it also grab the app pools too?

i.e
msdepoy.exe -verb:sync -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/apppools/XXXXX -dest:archivedir=c:\archive > test.log

this gives an error of:

Fatal: The source '/lm/w3svc/apppools/XXXXX' and destination '/lm/w3svc/1' are at different levels of hierarchy in the configuration system. This can have unexpected consequences. Please make sure that the paths are correct.
Fatal: The dependency check 'ProviderPathLevelMismatch' found issues up to 'Fatal' level that must be resolved before the current operation can be processed. See previous messages.
Change count: 0
Fatal count: 2

If someone could give me some example code of this point me in the right direction it would be deeply appreciated.