f you started the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application
service on your CA server you have to know that in my case it took
almost one hour to start, during this time you can check the progress
using he IIS console, you will notice web sites and application pools
start to appear one by one. Just keep calm and wait.
In case you do not see any progress in IIS or in the ULS logs then you can start the deployment of this service using this STSADM command:
But keep in mind that you have to wait a lot depending on the number of web applications you have.
Work in progress…..
Phase two
Everything worked fine after the stsadm command was used. A second issue appeared as soon as I tried to stop the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application service after I finished my work. Doing so from the CA caused the service to be stuck on stopping. Again use the same command but this time with the switch -stop instead of start, finished in one minute and then I issued iisreset /noforce. Everything is back to normal now.
In case you do not see any progress in IIS or in the ULS logs then you can start the deployment of this service using this STSADM command:
stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype spwebservice
But keep in mind that you have to wait a lot depending on the number of web applications you have.
Work in progress…..
Phase two
Everything worked fine after the stsadm command was used. A second issue appeared as soon as I tried to stop the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application service after I finished my work. Doing so from the CA caused the service to be stuck on stopping. Again use the same command but this time with the switch -stop instead of start, finished in one minute and then I issued iisreset /noforce. Everything is back to normal now.
stsadm -o provisionservice -action stop -servicetype spwebservice