IISRESET windows 10 (IIS 10) Access denied

Question

I'm just wondering, why I get error during an iisreset in my development machine. When I execute the command in a Command Prompt some times it wokrs,sometimes it throws an Access Denied Error, and sometimes it throws a file not found exception.

If anyone finds a solution to this anoying problem, I would appreciate a hint how to get rid of it.

In the IIS I'm just hosting an .NET 4.6.1 MVC site.

Answer 1

This stupid error happens randomly and was very annoying especially when you place iisreset inside a script and assume it will do its thing; took me a while to figure it out. It is not related to the service being stopped as can be seen in this picture:

The only thing I use now is:

net stop W3SVC

and

net start W3SVC

Haven't had a problem since then.

Answer 2

I got exactly the same error time ago. Running it in German too. Take a look at this article: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/iis-support-blog/iis-reset-issue-restart-attempt-failed/ba-p/1031976

Judging from @Giorgi Nakeuri's question about the event logs. The "World Wide Web Publishing" (called only "WWW-Publishingdienst" in German) is very likely not running. You need to start it. The "Windows activity process service" fails because of the first one failing.