So you’ve deployed an updated solution to your SharePoint 2007 or 2010 farm and you need to recycle the application pool associated with the web application that the solution is deployed to but you don’t want to take down the entire SharePoint farm? No problem, just recycle the single application pool that’s associated with that web application using a quick little command from command shell.
For those running SharePoint 2007 on Windows Server 2003 / 2003 R2:
cscript c:windowssystem32iisapp.vbs /a "%SharePointApplicationPool%" /r
where %SharePointApplicationPool% is the application pool that needs to be recycled. Note that iisapp.vbs resides within %systemroot%system32
For those running SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2:
appcmd recycle apppool /apppool.name:%SharePointApplicationPool%
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where %SharePointApplicationPool% is the application pool that needs to be recycled. Note that appcmd resides within %systemroot%system32inetsrv
The alternative for this of course is just to go in IIS Manager 6 or 7, select the application pool associated with the web application that requires recycling and recycle the pool manually through the UI.
References:
The Tech Blog of Dan Usher 