Start Central Administration site with STSADM

Oops.  I stopped central admin.  Can’t access the site to start services… no bueno.  No worries however, because you can actually start Central Administration up via STSADM (don’t you just love this utility?)

Web Service
stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService

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

Be sure to run an ‘iisreset /noforce’ afterwards.