Change the port for central admin
This came up in class today and one my students Eric knew the answer off the top of his head. It was so simple I thought I would share.
Stsadm –o setadminport –port 5555
This command will change SharePoint Central Administration v3 to run on port 5555. Even cooler? Didn’t take a reboot or iisreset to take effect, it just worked.
Shane – SharePoint Consulting
excellent tip – same command will also work in the pervious version to change the port of SharePoint Configuration Analyzer.
Doesn’t appear to be working for me. I just keep getting a Command line error.
Interesting this is that your command is formatted exactly how help tells us to do it.
If it does not work, replace the “-” by typing the “-” manually!
Need to change the port for SSP. Any suggestions other than creating a new
Thank you.Great help…
If you copy and paste the command, change the upper case S to lower case “stsadm –o setadminport –port 5555” and manually type the hypen as suggested by Tiemo.