Hi,
I was doing a check on a SP2010 farm and came to find out the Central Admin site isn't reachable. Not sure what has happened here, but the site is gone and when quering the content database for associated web app with the get-contentdatabase -webapplication<URL> cmd the site count returns zero (0)?!
So.. a real horrorstory here.. I found a couple of Central Admin databases but when trying to mount it to a web app it gives me nothing, and when running a check to see its contents it says no sites exist in the CA database.
So, now I have tried several attempts to reprovision the central admin site via SPCW or cmdline, but no success. It creates a website but on the website it gives a "object reference not set to an instance of an object"... yeah.. the errormessage that says exactly nothing to me. ULS is not giving any clue's and Eventlog gives an error 8031 ('topology' category) "the uri endpoint information may be stale. The requested application could not be found'
My question is if I want to create a new Central Admin database with a new Central Admin site, will I loose any configuration (such as functionality issues, customization issues, Central Admin configuration settings etc) or is it harmless?
Reason why I ask is because I came to a point where I have spent days trying to fix the CA site issue, but I am now considering if starting from scratch is a harmless solution. In other words, will it have impact on my current farm state and configuration if yes, what exactly might happen if I delete the existing central admin databases and start from scratch with the psconfig provision central admin cmd?
I have already tried provisioning with the existing databases in SQL, but since it still did not provision I think I might just throw the existing DBs away and start with no DBs at all from scratch to see if I find any luck?
I am a SharePoint Infrastructure Engineer, focussed on Administration and Installation of SharePoint Server environments.MCITP SP2010 Administration