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.
It's always fun to learn something new :) Though I figured why not take the plunge and learn the fun of the PowerShell angle with:
Get-SPServiceInstance - technet.microsoft.com/.../ff607570.aspx
Start-SPServiceInstance - technet.microsoft.com/.../ff607965.aspx
Stop-SPServiceInstance - technet.microsoft.com/.../ff607913.aspx
With a little parsing you can kill or start anything pretty easily - big however though... if you're not too keen on using PoSh and parsing through piping then definitely recommend the handy ole STSADM - hope they don't take her away in the next wave :(