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STF413-7232 asked HuryShenMSFT-3800 answered

Restarting "W3SVC" service vs running "iisreset"

Hello,

Is the action of restarting "W3SVC" service the same as running "iisreset"?

If no, which one is a "superset" of the others? And how to complete the action of the other?

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HuryShenMSFT-3800 answered

Hi @STF413-7232 ,

As far as I know, "iisreset" is a superset of restarting "W3SVC".

When you restart "W3SVC", it will just stop the WWW Service which impacts all your Web Site. But when you use "iisreset", it will do lot more apart from this such as restart FTP service.



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