Refreshing the FIM portal

Carol Wapshere did a nice post on refreshing the FIM portal when you make changes to RCDC and such. I've taken this to heart and put together a small Powershell script to do the job.

You can use the script like this -

"AppPool name" | .\Recycle-IisAppPool.ps1

i.e. "Sharepoint - 80" | .\Recycle-IisAppPool.ps1

You could even send several AppPool names through the pipeline, i.e.

"SomeAppPool", "Another AppPool", "Sharepoint - 80" | .\Recycle-IisAppPool.ps1

Ooh, and the script; here it is (remember to save it with a .ps1 extension)

process
{
 $_ | % { Invoke-WMIMethod -Name Recycle -Namespace "root\MicrosoftIISv2" -Path "IIsApplicationPool.Name='W3SVC/AppPools/$_'" }
}