Use the IIS7 Remote Administration Tool to Recycle Your App Pool
March 23, 2010
posted by Brad Kingsley
Did you know you can use the IIS 7 Remote Administration Tool to recycle the application pool for your hosted site? You might not because accessing the command isn't intuitive.
Within the IIS7 Manager, right-click on your site name in the left-hand pane then mouse-over Deploy then select Recycle...
Gee, who wouldn't think to look for it there. :-)
After selecting Recycle, you are presented with four different recycle options. Not all are actually "recycle" operations though...
The one I highlighted in red is the true recycle operation. It will totally breakdown the running application pool (the process will actually drop from the system) and spin up a new process then reload your site into the newly created process pool.
