tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746231692363652490.post4777726866145786357..comments2023-05-13T10:19:50.518+01:00Comments on Tales from a SharePoint farm: Administration: Changing a MOSS Site's Application PoolBenjamin Athaweshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08835244206910059172noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746231692363652490.post-39712444601345196662011-06-16T16:57:24.433+01:002011-06-16T16:57:24.433+01:00Hi Michael,
Thanks for the comment.
I wrote this...Hi Michael,<br /><br />Thanks for the comment.<br /><br />I wrote this post a while ago so look at things a little differently nowadays.<br /><br />SharePoint manages the association between Web applications and application pools and you should not be making these changes yourself.<br /><br />As far as I know the only supported way of changing the app pool/ web app association (in 2007 at least) is to recreate the Web app, as I outline above.<br /><br />For more on app pools, see this post from Spencer Harbar: http://www.harbar.net/archive/2009/12/04/more-on-sharepoint-2010-application-pools.aspx<br /><br />I also did a recent blog on common SharePoint administration mistakes if you are interested: http://www.benjaminathawes.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=22Benjamin Athaweshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08835244206910059172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5746231692363652490.post-72028715135219495332011-06-16T08:14:41.511+01:002011-06-16T08:14:41.511+01:00Thanks for interesting post :-)
I just created new...Thanks for interesting post :-)<br />I just created new app pools, assign sharepoint applications to them, and then manually modify keys like this<br /><br />in app pools' config files, typically placed in folders like this "c:\inetpub\temp\appPools\SharePoint Auto-Generated Content\SharePoint Auto-Generated Content.config"<br />I did it on my work environment, with sharepoint server 2010 standalone installation, so not sure this method is suitable for real-world farms.<br /><br />Michael GamzaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com