How should the application pool be configured so that it is 'Awake' immediately in the morning?

For IIS 7.5

In order to ensure that the WakeUp in the global.asax is triggered, a number of steps are important:

1. Within IIS, the 'Application Initialization Module for IIS 7.5' must be installed. After installation, a server reboot is required. The module can be found here:

http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/application-initialization

2. Open inetmgr, and click on the server / root node in the top left corner, and go to configuration editor there
3. At the top, go to Section and then ApplicationHost / ApplicationPools. In Collection, click on the dots at the end:

4. Make sure that the application pools in question (at least BO and RV, but probably also RE-Kernel) have the following 2 settings correctly:
   1. autoStart: True
   2. StartMode: AlwaysRunning

5. In order to ensure that the autostart also calls the Application_Start of the global.asax, the preLoadEnabled must now be set correctly (the Application Initializer module is required for this).
   Open the file 'Applicationhost.config' for this, which can be found here: C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config. Make sure to backup this file before making any changes!!
6. Go to the <sites> node, and search within it for the correct site (e.g. bo.retail3000).
   Within that node, in the 'application' node, add this:  preloadEnabled="true" .For example:

             <site name="acceptatie.retailvista.net" id="13" serverAutoStart="true">

                <application path="/" applicationPool="acceptatie.retailvista.net" preloadEnabled="true">

                    <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\acceptatie.retailvista.net" />

                </application>

                <bindings>

                    <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:80:acceptatie.retailvista.net" />

                </bindings>

            </site>

7. Open IIS now and check if the application pools start. If the IIS application initializer is not (correctly) installed, the site will not start anymore.

For IIS 8

1. The Application Initializer is already included by default.

Follow steps 2, 3, and 4 above.

2. In IIS, in the properties of the website (not the app pool!), enable preload: