App Pool Recycle Command

So one thing I have been wondering for a while now was how I can just recycle an application pool used by a SharePoint web application rather than execute a full iisreset. After you deploy a feature or make any number of configuration changes you need to often times recycle the app pool used by the web application – running iisreset does this, but it also recycles every application pool and takes a solid 80% longer than just recycling a selected app pool.

Anyway, thanks to Ted Pattison in his awesome Inside WSS 3.0 book and I found this extremely helpful command:

cscript c:\windows\system32\iisapp.vbs /a "[App_Pool_Name]" /r

Note: be mindful to not forget the /r at the end :-)

Just replace [App_Pool_Name] with the name of the app pool you want to recycle and you should be all set. Also, what is nice is that you can add this line into a batch file and execute it as a post complication script in Visual Studio so that after compiling and deploying a feature the reset will go much faster than with iisreset, speed things up a bit.