Difference between IISRESET and IIS Stop-Start command

Question

Is there any difference between commands iisreset and iisreset  stop followed by iisreset  start

User · Accepted Answer

Take IISReset as a suite of commands that helps you manage IIS start / stop etc.

Which means you need to specify option (/switch) what you want to do to carry any operation.

Default behavior OR default switch is /restart with iisreset so you do not need to run command twice with /start and /stop.

Hope this clarifies your question. For reference the output of iisreset /? is:

IISRESET.EXE (c) Microsoft Corp. 1998-2005

Usage:
iisreset [computername]

    /RESTART            Stop and then restart all Internet services.
    /START              Start all Internet services.
    /STOP               Stop all Internet services.
    /REBOOT             Reboot the computer.
    /REBOOTONERROR      Reboot the computer if an error occurs when starting,
                        stopping, or restarting Internet services.
    /NOFORCE            Do not forcefully terminate Internet services if
                        attempting to stop them gracefully fails.
    /TIMEOUT:val        Specify the timeout value ( in seconds ) to wait for
                        a successful stop of Internet services. On expiration
                        of this timeout the computer can be rebooted if
                        the /REBOOTONERROR parameter is specified.
                        The default value is 20s for restart, 60s for stop,
                        and 0s for reboot.
    /STATUS             Display the status of all Internet services.
    /ENABLE             Enable restarting of Internet Services
                        on the local system.
    /DISABLE            Disable restarting of Internet Services
                        on the local system.

User · Answer

The following was tested for IIS 8 5 and Windows 8 1   As of IIS 7  Windows recommends restarting IIS via net stop start  Via the command prompt  as Administrator     gt  net stop WAS  gt  net start W3SVC   net stop WAS will stop W3SVC as well  Then when starting  net start W3SVC will start WAS as a dependency

User · Answer

I know this is quite an old post  but I would like to point out the following for people who will read it in the future  As per MS   Do not use the IISReset exe tool to restart the IIS services  Instead  use the NET STOP and NET START commands  For example  to stop and start the World Wide Web Publishing Service  run the following commands   NET STOP iisadmin  y NET START w3svc  There are two benefits to using the NET STOP NET START commands to restart the IIS Services as opposed to using the IISReset exe tool  First  it is possible for IIS configuration changes that are in the process of being saved when the IISReset exe command is run to be lost  Second  using IISReset exe can make it difficult to identify which dependent service or services failed to stop when this problem occurs  Using the NET STOP commands to stop each individual dependent service will allow you to identify which service fails to stop  so you can then troubleshoot its failure accordingly   KB https   support microsoft com en-ca help 969864 using-iisreset-exe-to-restart-internet-information-services-iis-result

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