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SharePoint 2010 TIP: List Web Application Pools and Identities using PowerShell

In SharePoint 2010, a single PowerShell commandlet, Get-SPServiceApplicationPool, will list all application pools and their identities for service applications. However, there is no corresponding commandlet for directly listing web application application pools and their identities.  Instead, to get these, you need to look into the properties of the web application object itself, in this case, the web application object's ApplicationPool collection, and use a bit of piping:

Get-SPWebApplication | Select-Object DisplayName,{$_.ApplicationPool.Name},{$_.ApplicationPool.ID}, {$_.ApplicationPool.UserName} | ft -auto

If you want to put the output directly into a file, just do this:

Get-SPWebApplication... | Export-CSV -Path "[Path]\FileName.csv]"

The column headers will be the default property names or expressions that you used. You can customize and improve the output column headers by doing this:

Get-SPWebApplication | Select-Object DisplayName, @{N="Application Pool"; E={$_.ApplicationPool.Name}}, @{N="ID";E= {$_.ApplicationPool.ID}}, @{N="Identity"; E={$_.ApplicationPool.UserName}} | ft -auto

If you don't know the other ApplicationPool properties that you can get from Get-SPWebApplication, just do this:

$wa = Get-SPWebApplication -Identity "[web app name]"; $wa.ApplicationPool

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Notes

  • This also works for SharePoint 2013 and 2016.