Question

When looking in the IIS 7.5 manager > application pools, The last column lists “Applications”. This column shows the number of application pools / websites this appPool is associated with.

I am trying to figure out how to query this column / information using Powershell. The end goal here is to have a script that I could run that would tell me if any applicaiton pool is being used for more than 1 website or app.

I am unable to find how to query this information, when running:

get-itemproperty IIS:\AppPools\(AppPoolName) | format-list *

I dont see this property. Im not sure that this column is a property, if not, is there a best way to check if AppPools are being used for more than 1 website / applicaiton?

Answer 1

Wish I would have seen your post earlier, this is what I eventually came up with:

$SiteApps = get-item IIS:\Sites* $arraySize = ($SiteApps.count -1) 
$i = 0 
$t = 0 
for ($i=0; $i -le $arraySize; $i ++) # start at the beg of the array
{ 
for ($t=($i+1); $t -le $arraySize; $t++) 
{
if ($siteApps[$i].applicationpool -eq $siteApps[$t].applicationpool) 
{
$web1 = $siteApps[$i].name 
$webappPool = $siteApps[$i].applicationpool 
$web2 = $siteApps[$t].name $answer = $answer + "The website "$web1" is sharing the AppPool "webAppPool" with website "$web2". " 
}
}
}