What is the SharePoint Web Services Root App Pool?

Question

_{Saturday, June 5, 2010 10:42 AM}

After installing SP2010 I notice it is stopped - what is it? When do I need to turn it on?

And why are there GUIDs instead of App pool names?

Thanks if you can help

Cheers

Jonj

All replies (4)

_{Saturday, June 5, 2010 6:36 PM ✅Answered | 4 votes}

According to this blog "it’s absolutely OK that this Application Pool is stopped".

http://www.harbar.net/archive/2009/12/04/more-on-sharepoint-2010-application-pools.aspx

I checked two of my 2010 farms and it is stopped on both.

Mike Smith TechTrainingNotes.blogspot.com

_{Sunday, June 6, 2010 12:34 AM | 2 votes}

Hi JonJames,

SharePoint Web Services Root Application Pool is Stopped by Design and you should not worry about that being Stopped.

Thanks,

Hiran

_{Sunday, June 6, 2010 10:32 AM}

Thanks for this - great link

Cheers

Jonj

_{Monday, June 7, 2010 1:42 PM}

Hi JonJames,

To answer your second question; the application pools have GUIDs for the names because you most likely used the Central Administration wizard to provision those service applications. When you use the wizard the application pools and the service application databases will have GUIDs in them as it's a simple way to make sure that the name is not in use yet.

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