Monday, March 8, 2010

How to restart SharePoint Central Administration service after stopping it via Central Admin GUI

If you've stopped the Central Administration service within the GUI, here's how you get it started again:

From the command prompt type (assumming STSADM path is defined in environment variables)

stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicename WSS_Administration -servicetype Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService

Once this command successfully completes, run an IISREST t

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