+--- +title: Windows Users Guide +layout: documentation +documentation: true +--- + +This page guides how to set up environment on Windows for Apache Storm. + +## Symbolic Link + +Starting at 1.0.0, Apache Storm utilizes symbolic link to aggregate log directory and resource directory into worker directory. +Unfortunately, creating symbolic link on Windows needs non-default privilege, so users should configure it manually to make sure Storm processes can create symbolic link on runtime. + +Below pages (MS technet) guide how to configure that policy to the account which Storm runs on. + +* How to Configure Security Policy Settings +* Create symbolic links + +One tricky point is, administrator group already has this privilege, but it‘s activated only process is run as administrator account. +So if your account belongs to administrator group (and you don’t want to change it), you may want to open command prompt with run as administrator and execute processes within that console. +If you don't want to execute Storm processes directly (not on command prompt), please execute processes with runas /user:administrator to run as administrator account.