Remove an Application Pool in SharePoint 2010 that contain a hyphen in title

Question

As the subject says - i'm trying to remove an application pool using the SP Management Shell (using Administrator).

I have a pool named SharePoint - User Profiles

I try to remove this app pool by running the remove-spserviceapplicationpool command and then typing SharePoint - User Profiles and it blows up on me...

Here's an example of the input/output:

PS C:\Users\shsetup> remove-spserviceapplicationpool

cmdlet Remove-SPServiceApplicationPool at command pipeline position 1 Supply values for the following parameters: Identity: SharePoint - User Profiles

Remove-SPServiceApplicationPool : Object not found. At line:1 char:32 + remove-spserviceapplicationpool <<<< + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Microsoft.Share...ApplicationPo ol:SPCmdletRemoveI...ApplicationPool) [Remove-SPServiceApplicationPool], I nvalidOperationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletRemoveIi sWebServiceApplicationPool

Remove-SPServiceApplicationPool : Object reference not set to an instance of an object. At line:1 char:32 + remove-spserviceapplicationpool <<<< + CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...ApplicationPool: SPCmdletRemoveI...ApplicationPool) [Remove-SPServiceApplicationPool], Null ReferenceException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletRemoveIi sWebServiceApplicationPool

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Taps

Answer 1

Hyphen in name of the service application pool is not a problem. I just created and removed it without any problem. Make sure there is no typo. Also make sure make sure it is listed in Get-spserviceapplicationpool

Answer 2

Try: remove-spserviceapplicationpool -identity "SharePoint - User Profiles"

That should help.

Answer 3

Tip: I found out that when I tried to use
"remove-spserviceapplicationpool [Applicationpool name]" and
"remove-spserviceapplicationpool [GUID]"
both returned "object not found" and "object reference not set to an instance of an object" However,
"get-spserviceapplicationpool | select name,id"
did return the AppPool listed with all the other AppPools. Tried many things before I found out that there was an unintentional space in the AppPoolName. As soon as I entered the AppPoolName with quotationmarks, leaving the space where it was, I had no problems removing it...
So, yes, this was a typo, but one where I least expected it to be. I wonder whether this incorrect use of the naming of the AppPool was what caused the errors in my Search Service App...