Wait for timerjob to finish

I had an old PowerShell latying around. The PowerShell script wait for a given timerjob to be finished.

 1 $sleeptime = 5
 2 $timerjobname = "MetadataHubTimerJob"
 3 
 4 $timerjob = Get-SPTimerJob | Where {$_.Name -eq $timerjobname}
 5 if($timerjob)
 6 {
 7   $countBefore = $timerjob.HistoryEntries | select "EndTime"
 8   
 9   $timerjob.RunNow()
10   "Waiting for timerjob: $($timerjob.Name) to finish"
11   while($true)
12   {
13     Start-Sleep -Seconds $sleeptime
14     $countAfter = $timerjob.HistoryEntries | select "EndTime"    
15     
16     if($countAfter.Count -gt $countBefore.Count)
17     {
18       "The timejob $($timerjob.Name) is done"
19       break
20     }
21     else
22     {
23       "Still waiting on timerjob: $($timerjob.Name) to finish..."
24     }
25   }
26 }
27 else
28 {
29   "The timerjob: $($timerjob.Name) was not found."
30 }

PowerShell script to restart application pools, with remote Powershell

Has a follow up on my blog post about a PowerShell script to restart application pools. This script do it with remote PowerShell

$computername = "myserver"
$script = {   
    Import-Module WebAdministration
    (Get-Item "IIS:\Sites\*"| Select-Object applicationPool).applicationPool | % { Restart-WebAppPool $_ }
}
$cred = Get-Credential
$remotesession = New-PSSession -ComputerName $computername -Credential $cred
Invoke-Command -Session $remotesession -ScriptBlock $script

PowerShell script to restart application pools

Two line PowerShell script to restart all application pools on a server

1 #Import WebAdministration
2 Import-Module WebAdministration
3 #Find, pipe and restart
4 (Get-Item "IIS:\Sites\*" | Select-Object applicationPool).applicationPool | % { Restart-WebAppPool $_ }
5