I got a problem with an orphan application pool where a old web application used to reside.
Deleting the web application successfully removed the IIS site, content database and got completely removed from SharePoint. I thought. It's still alive on 2 of 3 servers.
Initially i thought that i could get rid of the application pool by creating a new web application and associate it with the app pool by choosing it from existing application pools - it does now show up.
Then i found this older thread with a suggestion to remove it using PowerShell:
$applicationPools = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService.ApplicationPools
$applicationPools.Remove("GUID")
Same as above, the application pool does not show up. To me it looks like all the relationships with SharePoint is already removed and the application pool is just a leftover in the IIS and i should be able to remove it directly from there on both servers that still has it.
Anyone else that had this problem? Is there any manual timer job that i could trigger to remove it?