Working with IIS PowerShell

In this post we will see how to change the credential of IIS Application Pool using PowerShell, we will also use PowerShell to restart the Application Pool.

If you would like to learn more about how to work with SSRS PowerShell so we can remap SSRS or SQL Sever Reporting Server Database to an existing DB, we will see also how to restore SSRS encryption key - have a look at this post- have a look at the this post

• First import the IIS or Web Admin module

Import-Module WebAdministration

• Change the App Pool credential

Set-ItemProperty IIS:\AppPools\CRMAppPool -name processModel -value @{userName="myDomain\myUserName";password="myPassword";identitytype=3}

Set-ItemProperty IIS:\AppPools\CrmDeploymentServiceAppPool -name processModel -value @{userName="myDomain\myUserName";password="myPassword";identitytype=3}

• Start the app pool after changing the credential

Start-WebAppPool -Name "CRMAppPool"

Start-WebAppPool -Name "CrmDeploymentServiceAppPool"

You can see this video*, if you would like to find more information about how to restore the old database to the new SQL server by running the command line and TFS Restore tool.