How to Delete Unused (Orphaned) Service Application App Pool in SharePoint 2010?
When you delete the Service applications, their Application Pools will not get deleted – They’ll become orphan/unused. So later when you create a new service application with same application pool, SharePoint will throw an error message: Application pool is already in use!
“An object of the type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPIisWebServiceApplicationPool named “Excel Service Application Pool” already exists under the parent Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPIisWebServiceSettings named “SharePoint Web Services”. Rename your object or delete the existing object.”
In another case: An application pool already exists with the name specified
So, How to delete the unused application pool? From IIS? Nope. IIS will not provide the interface for managing service application’s application pools. But we can delete the service application’s application pool in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell.
Use this below cmd-let to get a list of service application’s application pools.
Get-SPServiceApplicationPool
SharePoint 2010 delete orphaned application pool:
To delete an application pool of service application, use the cmdlet: Remove-SPServiceApplicationPool
E.g. Remove-SPServiceApplicationPool -Identity <Orphaned Application Pool Name>
Or the One liner could be: Get-SPServiceApplicationPool -Identity “name of the app pool” | Remove-SPServiceApplicationPool
Perfect! Thanks for this post!