SharePoint 2013 creates the “SharePoint Web Services” web application with bindings http->32843 and https->32844 and binds a private certificate from the LocalMachine\SharePoint certificate store to the https->32844 binding. My colleague used Remove-WebBinding -name “WebAppTitle” with the intention to remove only the binding for the specified web application name, but Remove-WebBinding seems to remove all IIS bindings, including the Default Webapplication, Central Administration and SharePoint Web Services!

Fixed the procedure by first getting the bindings before removing them: Get-WebBinding -name “WebAppTitle” | Remove-WebBinding. Anyways, the code below recreates the bindings for the “SharePoint Web Services” webapplication:

# Recreate web bindings for the SharePoint 2013 webservice webapp "SharePoint Web Services"
# Victor Vogelpoel Feb 2013

$webappName = "SharePoint Web Services"

if (!(Get-WebBinding -name $webappName -protocol "https" -port 32844))
{
  New-WebBinding -name $webappName  -ip "*" -port 32844 -protocol "https"
}

# Bind SharePoint's own "SharePoint Services" certificate to the webbinding for HTTPS 32844
$b = Get-WebBinding -name $webappName -protocol "https" -port 32844
if ($b)
{
  $cert = get-childitem cert:\\localmachine\sharepoint | where { $_.subject -match "^CN=SharePoint Services" }
  if (!$cert)
  {
    throw "Cannot find `"SharePoint Services`" certificate in SharePoint certificate store"
  }

  [void]$b.AddSslCertificate($cert.ThumbPrint, "SharePoint")
}
else
{
  throw "Cannot find webbinding"
}

if (!(Get-WebBinding -name $webappName -protocol "http" -port 32843))
{
  New-WebBinding -name $webappName  -ip "*" -port 32843 -protocol "http"
}