Rebooting a web server remotely using iisreset

Originally posted on my old MSDN blog

This one surprised me a lot when we found it. You can reboot a computer that is running IIS remotely by running the command:

   iisreset [computerName] /reboot

It's been very useful today when we've been patching a whole rack of servers with security patches, but could be very dangerous in the wrong hands :-)

There are a few more interesting options available. Do iisreset /? for more details.