Difference between IISRESET and IIS Stop-Start command

Question

命令iisreset和iisreset /stop后跟iisreset /start之间有什么区别吗？

Answer 1

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

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

Default behavior OR default switch is /restart with iisreset so you do not need to run the 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.

Answer 2

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 ):

> net stop WAS
> net start W3SVC

net stop WAS will stop W3SVC as well. Then when starting, net start W3SVC will start WAS as a dependency.

Answer 3

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