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jdgonzalez
jdgonzalez

Reputation: 81

Odd issue when using Get-IISAppPool and creating a new app pool in the same session

I'm writing up a script to create a new app pool if an app pool I'm passing in does not exist. When the pool is created and I run Get-IISAppPool in the same session, the new app pool does not exist.

Here's how to duplicate it.

New-WebAppPool -Name "Test"
Get-IISAppPool

It will not show the new one that was created.

If you open up a new shell and run Get-IISAppPool, you'll see the new app pool.

Any thoughts on how to overcome this?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2551

Answers (1)

AdminOfThings
AdminOfThings

Reputation: 25031

For better or for worse, I was able to reliably see the new app pool consistently this way:

New-WebAppPool -Name "Test"
Reset-IISServerManager
Get-IISAppPool

This seems like a weird bug. As a workaround, you could also do the following if you don't need the output types to be Microsoft.Web.Administration.ApplicationPool

import-module WebAdministration # this is only necessary if you don't execute WebAdministration module cmdlets before the GCI command

New-WebAppPool -Name "Test"
get-childitem IIS:\AppPools

Upvotes: 12

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