I encountered a problem where I wanted to stop and start IIS by using either the command line or powershell versions of stopping and starting IIS.
NET STOP W3SVC
NET START W3SVC
or
Stop-Service W3SVC
Start-Service W3SVC
Both of those stopped and started the World Wide Publishing service correctly. But both appeared to not stop/recycle the worker processes. With Net start and stop giving an error message when IIS was already stopped and/or started before running those commands, resulting in a scheduled task error code.
I found that using the IISRESET command, it does close those worker processes and when IIS was already stopped and/or started it didn’t return an error, thus resulting in the scheduled task returning a nice 0x0 (success)
Thus: use the following commands (also within powershell) if you want to stop/start IIS websites. This will always work as intended and not return an error code (in some cases, where the others would)
IISRESET /STOP
IISRESET /START
Thanks for the info. This change worked for me.
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