Start And Stop SharePoint Service Application Using PowerShell

In this post, we’re going to explain how to Start and Stop SharePoint Service Application using PowerShell.

Table of Contents

1 Restart SharePoint Service Using PowerShell
2 Start and Stop SharePoint Service Application using PowerShell
3 Start SharePoint Timer Service From Command Line
4 Restart SharePoint Timer Service From Command Line

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Restart SharePoint Service Using PowerShell

In my scenario, I tried to start the User Profile Synchronization Service in SharePoint Central Administration. so I went through the following:

Central Administration > Manage Services On Server

Besides User Profile Synchronization Service > I clicked Start.
The SharePoint service status is changed from “Stopped” to “Starting” and after 20 minutes the status is still stuck on “Starting” as shown below:

Unfortunately, I can’t find any way to stop the stuck service from the SharePoint Central Administration, therefore, I should resort to PowerShell to stop the SharePoint Service manually.

Start and Stop SharePoint Service Application using PowerShell

To restart a SharePoint Service Application using PowerShell, you should first Get SharePoint Service Application GUID that you would like to restart it.

Get SharePoint Service Application GUID Using PowerShell

Steps

Login with Farm Admin or Farm account to the SharePoint Application Server that host the Central Administration.
Open SharePoint Management Shell as an administrator.

Run the “Get-SPServiceInstance“ cmdlet to list all Application Services along with its status and ID (GUID)).

If you have multiple App servers cross the farm, you could specify which server you need to stop or restart the service on it.

Note: The User Profile Sync Service must be started on only one server cross the farm.

Alternatively, You can also filter by the Type name of the Application service as the following

Get-SPServiceInstance | where-object {$_.TypeName -eq "User Profile Synchronization Service"} | select id,server,status

Stop SharePoint Service Application Using PowerShell

Right-click inside the PowerShell window and select “Mark” to mark the corresponding ID of the SharePoint Service Application that you need to stop.
Hit enter or right-click to copy the SharePoint Service GUID.
Type “Stop-SPServiceInstance -identity“.
Right-click inside the PowerShell Shell and select “paste”.
Your cmdlet should look like:

Stop-SPServiceInstance -identity d8c3a67b-0917-4aeb-9053-a310a40154d6

Hit enter to execute the ” Stop-SPServiceInstance ” cmdlet > Type ‘Y’ to confirm.

Start and Stop SharePoint Service Application using PowerShell

Go back to Central Administration > “Manage Services on server”.

Check the ” User Profile Sync Service” status that would be stopped successfully now.

Start SharePoint Service Application Using PowerShell

Run the “Start–SPServiceInstance -identity” cmdlet.
Paste the copied Application Service GUID.

Start-SPServiceInstance -identity d8c3a67b-0917-4aeb-9053-a310a40154d6

Start User Profile Synchronization Service

If you are going to start SharePoint Application Service like User Profile Synchronization Service, So it’s preferred to use Central Administration UI to be able to reenter the password of the service account during start.

Note: In case, you are going to start the UPS service using PowerShell, you should make sure that the current login user to the server is a farm account and it’s added to the local administrator group.
For more details, Please, check User Profile Synchronization Service Prerequisites

Steps

Login to the current server with a farm account.
Start Central Administration as Administrator.
Go to “Services on Server” below “System Settings”.
Click Start on “User profile Sync Service”.
Provide the credentials of the assigned service Account.
Wait from 5 to 15 Minutes, and the User Profile Sync Service status should be started.