Central Administration Page not displaying on SharePoint 2013 on premises.

So today, and for a week prior, I was seeing a “page cannot be displayed” error when trying to load the Central Administration page.

  1. 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.”
  2. 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
  3. Run Get-SPServiceInstance -All and observe the ID and status of the Central Administration service.
  4. Copy the ID to the clipboard.
  5. Run the command $value = Get-SPServiceInstance -Identity 2295513d-114f-4113-978c-c6613074d672 substituting your own ID for this sample one.
  6. $value.Provision()
  7. $value.Update()
  8. Now when you run Get-SPServiceInstance -All,  you should see Central Administration status “online.”

Published by Joseph LeMay

Former IBM Notes Developer, now doing SharePoint

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