Moving Central Administration Site from one Server to another server with in the farm

Question

_{Sunday, February 12, 2012 12:28 PM}

Hi all,

we have situation where Central administration Service was enabled on web fornt end server instaed of appserver in our production farm.

Administrator did'nt notice it and users started using the farm like that.

can we move a Central Administration Service from One server to another server with in the farm.

If so please let know what would be the problems.

thanks in advance.

ragava_28

All replies (3)

_{Sunday, February 12, 2012 1:02 PM ✅Answered | 2 votes}

Hi Raghu

This is a simple fix.

Use the PSConfig.exe or COnfigurationm Wizard to unprovision(uninstall/remove) the Central administration site from the WFE. Then simply run the same again on the Application server, add the Central Administartion site here and you are good to go. Do not let it scare you that you are without CA for a few minutes, this is quite allright.

You can also if needed have the CA on any server...or both or all of them. If a server hosting CA goes down, add CA to another, and so on.

Best regards

Thomas Balkeståhl - Technical Specialist - SharePoint - http://blksthl.wordpress.com

_{Monday, February 13, 2012 8:05 AM}

Thanks for inputs ,implemented the same and working fine

ragava_28

_{Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:06 AM}

Since SP2010 you can use PowerShell as well to acomplish this:

On the FE-Server (where you want the CA-site remove from):
Remove-SPCentralAdministration -Confirm:$false

On the APP-Server (where you want the CA-site relocate to):
New-SPCentralAdministration -Port 5000 # or the port number you need

see:
/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-server/remove-spcentraladministration?view=sharepoint-ps
/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-server/new-spcentraladministration?view=sharepoint-ps