I reconnected a disconnected server to a SharePoint farm, and after the Configuration Wizard finished running, I checked the Services on Server page to verify that everything was OK and start up the Search and Excel services. Much to my consternation, the “Window SharePoint Services Web Application” service was stuck on “Starting” and none of my web applications had appeared in IIS. Argh.
Fortunately, Joel Oleson’s blog came to the rescue. The correct stsadm command to use to force this sucker to start is:
stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype SPWebService
It took a while for the command to complete, but that seemed to fix everything up nicely.
