Change central administration port number

Follow the below steps to change the Central Administration port number

1. On the sharepoint server open the command line window and type cd C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12BIN
2. To find out the current central admin port no. type stsadm.exe -o getadminport
3. To change the central admin port no type stsadm.exe -o setadminport -port <portnumber>

for example: if you want to set the admin port to 1499 type the command like

stsadm.exe -o setadminport -port 1499

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