I have a sharepoint 2010 server farm with 2 WFE and 2 App servers, and when I go to create a new web application I can't select an existing application pool from the drop down. The only application pools I can see are DefaultAppPool () and Classic .NET AppPool ().
I've tried re-starting all servers in the farm, and I've tried it with the farm admin account and the install account.
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