Hello,
I am working on a solution that has multiple websides and multiple apppools running on same server. Recently we started migration work to Win 20012/IIS8 and discovered that severall app pools which are not supposed to start automatically (on IIS7 we set Start Automatically=False) are getting set up by our installers so that they do not start. After few tests I had to reset IIS (iisreset from command line). I noticed that those apppools started up. I did stop them manually and used iireset from CMD again to verify. Those app pools appeared to be down.
I'd like to understand what setting IIS8 uses instead of IIS7's Start Automatically? Is it 'Start Mode'? If so, what it should be set to? And lastly why the apppools stay down after deployment, but yet get started by iisreset?