+--- +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.