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When you run Microsoft Edge as administrator by right clicking and selecting "Run as administrator" you find that the browser doesn't have administrator rights and has not elevated. Peforming the same action in Google Chrome does not have the issue. Viewing the process in Task Manager shows that the browser is not running elevated. The issue is caused because Microsoft automatically and silently  de-elevates the process when it's run as a safety precaution.  To prevent this from happening you can use the following parmeter command --do-not-de-elevate

When using the WebAdministration PowerShell cmdlets Get-WebVirtualDirectory the username, password and other virtual directory information as expected. However when using the Get-WebApplication cmdlet these properties aren't available even though a web application is a virtual directory. If you look at the applicationHost.config file you'll see that the application in fact has a virtual directory (with path "/") associated with it.  This virtual directory has the additional information required. <application path="/TestApp" applicationPool="TestSite">    <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\TestApp" userName="administrator" password="[enc:AesProvider:B2sdfsd1213E98dV53cb5NfdZndNWvCUf/AekXE=:enc]" /> </application> To access this information get the "/" virtual directory from the collection property. $app = Get-WebApplication "TestApp" ; $app . Collection [ 0

When you run the  Get-IISAppPool PowerShell cmdlet and try and view the password of the application pool you may see that the password looks like this: [enc:IISWASOnlyCngProvider:uQaGVt5rssdfPO129+N0iAJs3iE0d46qeDy34lnYeOvoMWrts9t+cwY7BgtBnYO+IINgGaPiz+19820knjdaf81ndafjsdfyHzmaF3Cgqg=:enc] To resolve the issue and view the plain text password simply right click the PowerShell console and select Run as Administrator .  When running as administrator the following command will display the application pool's password in plain text. (Get-IISAppPool -Name " name ").ProcessModel.Password

You might find that when you're running the IISAdministration cmdlets such as Get-IISAppPool that the cmdlets return out of date information that doesn't reflect the current configuration settings. To resolve the issue you need to run the Reset-IISServerManager to re-load the latest configuration. Reset-IISServerManager -Confirm:$false

If you're using the IISAdministration PowerShell module you may want to find out what applications are in use by an application pool. (if you're using the older WebAdministration module I've written the solution here ). # Gets the names of the applications in the specified application pool. Function Get-ApplicationPoolApplicationNames {     [ CmdletBinding () ]      param (         [ Parameter () ]           [ System.Object ] $ApplicationPoolName      )      process      {         $applicationNames = New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List``1[System.String] ;           $webSites = Get-IISSite ;           foreach ( $webSite in $webSites )           {                     foreach ( $application in $webSite . Applications)                {                     if ( $application . ApplicationPoolName -eq $ApplicationPoolName )                     {                          if ( $application . Path -eq "/" )                          {               

If you're using the older WebAdministration PowerShell module for IIS you'll notice when browing application pools you'll see the applications in the pool. https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/module/webadministration However when you try and get the applications property it's not there because it's provided as a formatted property. You can grab the code from inside the formatter however there is a simpler method by enumerating the web sites and applications - these can be returned in the format SiteName or SiteName\ApplicationName # Gets the names of the applications in the specified application pool. Function Get-ApplicationPoolApplicationNames {      [ CmdletBinding () ]      param (         [ Parameter () ]           [ System.Object ] $ApplicationPoolName     )      process      {           $applicationNames = New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List``1[System.String] ;           $webSites = Get-Website ;           foreach ( $webSite in $webSi