Automatically Restarting Website after IIS AppPool recyle

I'm using a website which interacts with SQL Server Agent in order to schedule the automatic processing and emailing of reports. I recently noticed that when the AppPool recyles, that i'm not getting reports afterwards - until someone logs into the website again. It's possible for the website not to get hit for hours/days, during which all the scheduled tasks are lost.

I'd like to set up a windows task to either run periodically or trigger off the AppPool recycle event. But I'm not sure what the task should be. I had one suggestion to set up a Windows task to exercise a .js script that would hit the website, but this only works with Windows Authentication (which isn't being used):

var xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP");
xmlhttp.open("POST", "http://localhost/website/defa开发者_运维百科ult.aspx", false);
xmlhttp.send();

Looking for some suggestions on how to "wake up" a website after an IIS AppPool recycle.

Thanks. ab.

Why not run gnu wget from a scheduled task:

wget -O - http://mysite.com/default.aspx

I ran across this today which seems like it might help you out. It's the IIS Warm-up module. Depends on whether you can convince the your customer to install it, although it is an official IIS module, so hopefully it's no problem.