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Demystifying IIS Application Pools

Jeremy Morgan on September 20, 2019

Application Pools in IIS can be somewhat of a mystery. Since they're created for you automatically many times administrators and developers don't g...
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Mike Brooks

Excellent post. Takes me back to the days when I handled IIS administration. These days we are running IIS workloads on Azure App Service, PaaS. For those migrating to App Service, it would great to see an article that maps the ApplicationPool settings to Azure App Service configuration settings. I believe that many settings are not supported (or not relevant) in App Service (e.g. Queue Length), but others are (e.g. Managed pipeline mode, 32-bit or 64-bit). I'm going to poke around. Thanks.

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Paulo Morgado

You can have more than one process for the same application pool. It's called a web garden.

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/get-s...

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Matt Eland Pluralsight

Thanks for this article. This is an area I need to grow in and I will add your course to my queueueueueue.

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Daniel Coturel

Hi Jeremy,
Good article.
Saludos,