The OrphanWorkerProcess property, when set to true, notifies the World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW Service) not to terminate a worker process that fails to respond to pings, but to instead orphan the worker process in the application pool if the worker process suffers fatal errors.

Schema Attributes

Configurable Locations
You can configure this property at the following locations in the IIS metabase.
Metabase Path | IIS Admin Object Type |
|---|
/LM/W3SVC/AppPools/application_pool_name | IIsApplicationPool |
/LM/W3SVC/AppPools | IIsApplicationPools |

Flags
There are no flags for this property.

Requirements
Server: Requires or Windows Server 2003.
Product: IIS

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