Activate SharePoint Central Admin from console

Question

I have accidentally stopped the central administration service on a share point server and can't find a way to re-activate it? Is there any way to do this from one of the SP command line utilities?

Answer 1

That would depend on how it was stopped. If it is simply the web site itself that has stopped, then you can open Administrative Tools -> IIS Manager, browse to the Sites -> Central Admin Web site, right click and pick Start. If it doesn't start this way, look in your event logs and see if there is anything there, like a permissions or security error.

If it is stopped some other way or if you accidentally deleted the site then that will take additional steps to recover.