SBS2008 Companyweb stopped working after SharePoint Update
Posted by Kris Daniels on 11 October 2011
After pulling my hair out for a couple of days, I finally managed to resolve our SBS2008 Companyweb stopped working issue.
*** NOW FIXED ***
SharePoint Companyweb stopped working after KB2493987 and KB2553018 where applied. Both via internal http and https port 987.
There wasn't much to go on bar many people in this situation simply gave up and restored from backup!! Not an ideal scenario.
Problem
After applying KB2493987 update to SharePoint, no access to Companyweb either via http or https on port 987
Solution
Open CMD (Elevated) - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN
Run the following commands
stsadm -o provisionservice -action stop -servicetype
spwebservice -servicename
stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype
spwebservice -servicename
Note: I was told after this second command IIS needed a restart at this point, so I opened another Elevated CMD and ran iisreset /noforce It failed like always as SBS always times out for an IIS restart, so waited a couple of minutes then went to services.msc and manually started the World Wide Publishing Service.
then run
psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force
After running these commands make sure to check port 80 is binded under SBS SharePoint Site in IIS.
Note: I had to right-click on the SharePoint Site, Bindings and add a new binding for Companyweb to http. All then worked again!
Additional Comments
I found this fix on the following post. The guy [BinuKumar] didn't get the credit for the fix but only due to most people missing the running stsadm from the BIN folder!!
I hope you find this fix useful.
Kris Daniels
Solve-IT
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