PS2007 - Can't Access SharePoint Central Admin!

[Rick F.]

I was trying to troubleshoot a problem and checking to see if services in
SharePoint Central Admin were running. I must have accidently clicked when
rolling over the start and stop as I got kicked out of Central Admin and
can't get back in. How does one restart if stopped or regain access???
Services generally allow you to stop and restart.

Where do I go to restore access. Everything seems to be running ok, but it
wont let me access Central Admin in the server. Anybody know how to restore
this?

 

[Piet Remen]

Hi Rick. Fear not, thankfully, there is a stsadm command to help start the
service for you again. Syntax is as follows:

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

For those not familiar with stsadm, its a SharePoint command line tool
typically located under the following path:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server
extensions\12\BIN\STSADM.EXE

Navigate to this path in a command prompt window (windows key + r, then type
cmd and enter). Type 'cd "[THE ABOVE PATH]" ' then enter to navigate to the
SharePoint bin folder. type 'stsadm -help' to view a list of all available
stsadm methods or paste in the above command text to start the central
administration service.

Regards,

Piet Remen