Getting IIS application pool recycle events to be logged in the Windows Event Log

Question

I am trying to get IIS 7 application pool recycle, start, stop, etc. events to be logged to the Windows Event Log. I followed the steps outlined in this article but didn't have any success. I restarted the application pool and nothing was logged in the Event Log. (I checked both the "Application" and "System" logs.) But when I do an IIS reset that gets logged.

Answer 1

This article made it clear why events were not registered in event log:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/david.wang/archive/2006/02/28/why-iis6-application-pool-recycle-events-are-not-logged.aspx