I am trying to find a way to restart IIS and MTS from a script.
In essence I want to achieve these command line commands:

net stop iisadmin /y
mtxstop
net start w3svc

I tried using the SHELL command from a COM wrapper to execute a batch file
containg the above commands.  No luck SHELL only executes executables!!

What I really need is access to the services so I can stop and start the
relevant services vial a COM interface.

Can anybody help?

Tasha

Call cmd.exe from your shell.

Do this:

iReturn = Shell("cmd /c net stop iisadmin /y")
...check iReturn for errors 0=SUCCESS...
iReturn = Shell("cmd /c mtxstop")
iReturn = Shell("net start w3svc")

You can also create a batch file to do this just as
easy.

Also, if you're writing a VB COM object anyhow, you might
consider hooking into Win32 API (advapi32.dll) and using the
ControlService function to send a stop command.

You could also use WMI to stop it.

Both are more elegant than shelling out to stop the services.

-Chad