"the product installation has been corrupted, run setup from original source" See this message before?  I saw this when trying to uninstall SharePoint from the Add/Remove Programs menu.  This happened after someone uninstalled IIS...

The default app pool setting for the SharePoint Central Admin site is to recycle at a set time each day.  Given that most of us rarely use Central Admin more than once or twice each day (because we script all the changes to the SharePoint farm configuration...

So you’ve gone to uninstall SharePoint and you find that someone has removed IIS first. You go to Add/Remove programs and select uninstall for SharePoint but it fails with an error message “Error 1920.Service 'W3SVC' (W3SVC) failed to start. Verify that...

After reading some other posts about setting up the SharePoint Central Admin Web Application on multiple servers I thought it would be useful to post just a little more information on the topic. The From the Field blog covered this topic really well....