Windows server : PowerShell – Error : appcmd.exe : The term ‘appcmd.exe’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

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Today new issue and solution.

Background:

• For one of our SharePoint server project I am looking for the option to take the backup of IIS
• We have SharePoint 2019 installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard
• One of the option I found is – appcmd utility
• appcmd utility resides in “%WINDIR%/Systme32/inetsrv” folder
• When I navigate to folder and check this utility is available in folder
• But when I try to execute the command gets an error

ISSUE / ERROR

When I try to execute the utility to backup IIS I am getting an error

PS C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv> appcmd.exe
appcmd.exe : The term ‘appcmd.exe’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included,
verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

• appcmd.exe
• ~~
  • CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (appcmd.exe:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Solution

• When we executed utility bit different way as in below code line, it worked like charm

PS C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv> .\appcmd.exe

Reason

• By default, Windows PowerShell does not load commands from current location
• We need to type commands like .\appcmd.exe
• To run a script that is in the current directory, specify the full path, or type a dot .\ to represent the current directory.

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