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Start services

The last step in the process of restoring the Blackboard Learn is to restart all Blackboard services using the following command. After starting the services, log in to the system and sanity test the system.

  1. Launch a command prompt from the Windows Start menu.
  2. Navigate to blackboard_home\tools\admin
  3. Start the iisadmin, bb-collab, and bb-tomcat services by typing the following command and pressing the ENTER key:

    servicecontroller.bat services.start


Stop services

  1. Launch a command prompt from the Windows Start menu.
  2. Navigate to blackboard_home\tools\admin
  3. Stop the iisadmin, bb-collab, and bb-tomcat services by typing the following command and pressing the ENTER key:

    servicecontroller.bat services.stop