Hi
Hopefully this will be easy for experienced IIS people, but it is completely uncharted water for me.
We are upgrading an existing application which uses Windows Services, but the new version seems to run everything in IIS. The product comes with a dedicated MMC which allows us to stop and start the process, however I need to be able to start the process via a script ie without being logged in and running the MMC (this is because we have a restart schedule for all Windows servers)
When I run the MMC and start the process, a worker process (W3WP.exe) runs which I can stop easily enough, either by stopping IIS or if necessary, by killing the process. What I need to be able to do is start the process from a script. I cant seem to find what the 'Start Server' function in the MMC actually runs, and the vendor is being totally unhelpful (quelle surpris - we've already paid for the product...!)
Can someone please offer some advice, give me a start point as to ho I should set about this.
Thank you very much for looking and even more for any hekp that can be offered