So today, and for a week prior, I was seeing a “page cannot be displayed” error when trying to load the Central Administration page.
- try to issue the PowerShell command
Get-SPServiceInstance | Where-Object {$_.TypeName –eq ‘Central Administration’} | Format-Table -Wrap -AutoSize
result indicates the status is “provisioning” but it should be “online.” - The answer ended up coming from this post, written in Spanish https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/d8cbe935-f601-4575-8aba-84f2190f85c7/sharepoint-2013-server-search-status-stuck-on-8220provisioning8221?forum=sharepointsearch&prof=required
- Run Get-SPServiceInstance -All and observe the ID and status of the Central Administration service.
- Copy the ID to the clipboard.
- Run the command $value = Get-SPServiceInstance -Identity 2295513d-114f-4113-978c-c6613074d672 substituting your own ID for this sample one.
- $value.Provision()
- $value.Update()
- Now when you run Get-SPServiceInstance -All, you should see Central Administration status “online.”