[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change]

### MaxProcesses

This property determines the maximum number of worker processes an application pool allows to service requests for an application pool. A value of 0 indicates an unmanaged application pool that is not served by a worker process.

Note A Web Garden is an application pool with a MaxProcesses setting higher than 1.

Attribute Name | Attribute Value
Data Type | DWORD
Attributes | INHERIT
Default Value | 1
MetaFlagsEx | CACHE_PROPERTY_MODIFIED | WAS_NOTIFICATION
User Type | IIS_MD_UT_SERVER
StartingNumber |
EndingNumber | 0
ID | 9003

### Access Locations

This property is accessible at the following locations:

Metabase Path | IIS Admin Object Type
/LM/W3SVC/AppPools | IIsApplicationPools

### IIS Admin Base Object Information

The following table lists additional information required only for code that uses the IIS Admin Base Object.

Metabase identifier | MD_APPPOOL_MAX_PROCESS_COUNT
Data type | DWORD
User type | IIS_MD_UT_SERVER

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