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OrphanWorkerProcess Metabase Property

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 with SP1

The OrphanWorkerProcess property, when set to true, notifies the World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW Service) not to terminate a worker process that fails to respond to pings, but to instead orphan the worker process in the application pool if the worker process suffers fatal errors.

Attribute Name Attribute Value

XML Data Type

Boolean

WMI Data Type

Boolean

ADSI Data Type

Boolean

ABO Data Type

Boolean

ABO Metabase Identifier

MD_APPPOOL_ORPHAN_PROCESSES_FOR_DEBUGGING

Attributes

INHERIT

Default Value

false

MetaFlagsEx

CACHE_PROPERTY_MODIFIED

User Type

IIS_MD_UT_SERVER

ID

9009

Configurable Locations

You can configure this property at the following locations in the IIS metabase.

Metabase Path IIS Admin Object Type

/LM/W3SVC/AppPools/DefaultAppPool /LM/W3SVC/AppPools/DefaultAppPool/application_pool_name

IIsApplicationPool

/LM/W3SVC/AppPools

IIsApplicationPools

Code Example

For general code examples, see Code Examples to Configure Metabase Properties.