<div class="content" name="RecycleApplicationPool" uuid="795c1c09-e4b8-4758-9801-820003aee932"><p>The RecycleApplicationPool method restarts an <a href="1243ba70-74ca-44f9-be0b-dfd6697010b4#gt_15b985cc-5c71-4573-873a-275218a37a3d" data-linktype="relative-path">application pool</a>.</p><dl>
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<div><pre> HRESULT RecycleApplicationPool(
   [in, unique, string] LPCWSTR szPool
 );
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</dd></dl><p><b>szPool: </b>A pointer to a Unicode string that
contains the name of the application pool to restart.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b> A signed 32-bit value that
indicates return status. If the method returns a negative value, it failed. If
the 12-bit facility code (bits 16–27) is set to 0x007, the value contains a
Win32 error code in the lower 16 bits. Zero or positive values indicate
success, with the lower 16 bits in positive nonzero values containing warnings
or flags defined in the method implementation. For more information about Win32
error codes and <a href="../ms-dtyp/a9046ed2-bfb2-4d56-a719-2824afce59ac" data-linktype="relative-path">HRESULT</a>
values, see <a href="../ms-erref/1bc92ddf-b79e-413c-bbaa-99a5281a6c90" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-ERREF]</a>.
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<table><thead>
  <tr>
   <th>
   <p>Return value/code</p>
   </th>
   <th>
   <p>Description</p>
   </th>
  </tr>
 </thead><tbody><tr>
  <td>0x00000000 S_OK</td>
  <td>The call was successful.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>0x80070003 ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND</td>
  <td>The system cannot find the path specified.</td>
 </tr></tbody></table>
</dd></dl><p>The <a href="1243ba70-74ca-44f9-be0b-dfd6697010b4#gt_e127848e-c66d-427d-b3aa-9f904fa4ada7" data-linktype="relative-path">opnum</a>
field value for this method is 8. </p><p>When processing this call, the server MUST do the following:</p><ul><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>If the application pool specified does not exist, return
ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Attempt to recycle (shut down and restart) the application pool
if it is running.</p>
</li></ul></div>