Question

I currently have several websites running under IIS. For ease lets call them site1, site2, and site3

My powershell script accepts a parameter from the user of which number site to work with. I am attempting to turn off site3 with simply the parameter 3

I thought it would be something along the lines of

stop-website | where-object {$_.name -like "*3*"}

this line is executed, but brought to a prompt for “name”

Answer 1

The Name property seems to accept wildcards (although help states otherwise) so you should be able to stop it with this:

Stop-Website -Name *3*