Create SharePoint Web Application

A SharePoint application restore has its own special job destination option that lets you configure the restore job to create a new web application at the specified location. You can use the Create SharePoint Web Application option with one of three available values:

Do Not Create Web Application	Restore the content database, but take no other action. This value is the default setting for this job option.
Create Web Application	If you select this option, after restoring the content database, DPX will create a web application that uses the original web application name and port number. If the local SharePoint library on the control node supports it, DPX will try to provision this web application globally. Note. To support global provisioning, DPX requires the installation of WSS 3.0 SP1 (or later) and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Infrastructure update, dated July 15, 2008. The application pool for this web application will be selected by SharePoint. After a restore, check the newly created web application using the central administration website. You may have to reconfigure the application pool and change other settings. Note. If you decide to create a new web application, and you have created the SharePoint content database restore at a new location, this job option will create a new web application at the new location. (If you need to review relevant information about the previous content database, you can refer to its configuration data, as recorded in its related backup job log.) If you have more than one content database for the same web application, select all of them together, if you want to create the web application with all of those databases for restore. The create web application portion of the restore job will fail if a web application with the same settings exists in the farm. Note. For a SharePoint 2013 database on SQL Server 2012, a listener must be configured in the availability group. See SharePoint Installation and Configuration Requirements.
Delete and Create Web Application	Delete the existing web application before creating the web application. Note. For users receiving the message “Failure to create web application,” you can recreate that web application by selecting this option.
SQL Availability Group Listener Name	If you restore a SharePoint database to a SQL Availability Group, enter the availability group listener name. Note. This option is only available when Create Web Application or Delete and Create Web Application are selected in the Create SharePoint Web Application field.
WebApp Application Pool Account	This option specifies which account type to use when creating a web application: Account at Backup Time - this option tells DPX to create the web application using the same application pool account that it previously used when creating the selected backup. Note. SharePoint 2010 uses managed accounts for web applications. When you select this option, DPX will try to use the same managed account that it previously used when creating the selected backup. If you delete this account from the SharePoint configuration database, this web application creation will fail. Network Service - this option tells DPX to create the web application using the Windows Network Service account. Configurable - this option tells DPX to create the web application using a specific application pool account. Enter the required information for this specific account using the Application Pool Account User Name and the Application Pool Account Password fields that follow this selection. Note. SharePoint 2010 uses managed accounts for web applications. When you select this option, DPX will look for a managed account with this specified name, and use that account to create the web application. If that managed account does not exist, DPX will create that new managed account before attempting to create the web application. Note. For a SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2016 database on SQL Server 2012, a listener must be configured in the availability group. See SharePoint Installation and Configuration Requirements.
Application Pool Account User Name	After selecting the Configurable option, use this field to supply the specific application pool account user name.
Application Pool Account Password	After selecting the Configurable option, use this field to supply the specific application pool account password.