Stop IIS 7 Application Pool from build script

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Published on 2009-09-08T18:22:41Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 7:03 UTC
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How can I stop and then restart an IIS 7 application pool from an MSBuild script running inside TeamCity. I want to deploy our nightly builds to an IIS server for out testers to view.

I have tried using appcmd like so:

appcmd stop apppool /apppool.name:MYAPP-POOL

... but I have run into elevation issues in Windows 2008 that so far have stopped me from being able to run that command from my TeamCity build process because Windows 2008 requires elevation in order to run appcmd.

If I do not stop the application pool before I copy my files to the web server my MSBuild script is unable to copy the files to the server.

Has anybody else seen and solved this issue when deploying web sites to IIS from TeamCity?

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