Hi Rick. I had not thought that it would not restart a hung service. OK, I will use the IISReset option. Thanks for the info.

>Jos,
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>Probably not the best idea. Starting and stopping the service is very slow and if the service is hung will not force to stop and restart.
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>IISReset is much more reliable and will restart the server if at all possible... It will wait for a certain timeout period and if it hasn't stopped will kill the process.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>>Jos,
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>>>Look at message #968085, and I think there are alternative ways in that thread
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>>Hi Hugo
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>>Thanks for the link. I am going to use the ServiceStop and ServiceStart option that I found in that thread. Thanks.