Difference between IISRESET and IIS Stop-Start command
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Is there any difference between commands iisreset and iisreset /stop followed by iisreset /start ?
Windows Solutions
Solution 1 - Windows
Take IISReset as a suite of commands that helps you manage IIS start / stop etc.
Which means you need to specify option (/switch) what you want to do to carry any operation.
Default behavior OR default switch is /restart with iisreset so you do not need to run command twice with /start and /stop.
Hope this clarifies your question. For reference the output of iisreset /? is:
> IISRESET.EXE (c) Microsoft Corp. 1998-2005
>
> Usage:
> iisreset [computername]
>
> /RESTART Stop and then restart all Internet services.
> /START Start all Internet services.
> /STOP Stop all Internet services.
> /REBOOT Reboot the computer.
> /REBOOTONERROR Reboot the computer if an error occurs when starting,
> stopping, or restarting Internet services.
> /NOFORCE Do not forcefully terminate Internet services if
> attempting to stop them gracefully fails.
> /TIMEOUT:val Specify the timeout value ( in seconds ) to wait for
> a successful stop of Internet services. On expiration
> of this timeout the computer can be rebooted if
> the /REBOOTONERROR parameter is specified.
> The default value is 20s for restart, 60s for stop,
> and 0s for reboot.
> /STATUS Display the status of all Internet services.
> /ENABLE Enable restarting of Internet Services
> on the local system.
> /DISABLE Disable restarting of Internet Services
> on the local system.
Solution 2 - Windows
The following was tested for IIS 8.5 and Windows 8.1.
As of IIS 7, Windows recommends restarting IIS via net stop/start. Via the command prompt (as Administrator):
> net stop WAS
> net start W3SVC
net stop WAS will stop W3SVC as well. Then when starting, net start W3SVC will start WAS as a dependency.
Solution 3 - Windows
I know this is quite an old post, but I would like to point out the following for people who will read it in the future: As per MS:
> Do not use the IISReset.exe tool to restart the IIS services. Instead, > use the NET STOP and NET START commands. For example, to stop and > start the World Wide Web Publishing Service, run the following > commands: > > - NET STOP iisadmin /y > - NET START w3svc > > There are two benefits to using the NET STOP/NET START commands to > restart the IIS Services as opposed to using the IISReset.exe tool. > First, it is possible for IIS configuration changes that are in the > process of being saved when the IISReset.exe command is run to be > lost. Second, using IISReset.exe can make it difficult to identify > which dependent service or services failed to stop when this problem > occurs. Using the NET STOP commands to stop each individual dependent > service will allow you to identify which service fails to stop, so you > can then troubleshoot its failure accordingly.