Running Bamboo as a Windows service

Once you have installed Bamboo, you can choose to run Bamboo as a service so that it starts up every time Windows restarts.

Upgrading Bamboo server

If you have just upgraded your Bamboo server, you must re-install the Bamboo service. You can do this by removing the service and installing it again.
If you run Bamboo as a Windows service, make sure that the user has Full control access to the following folders:
- In version 5.1 or later:
  - <Bamboo_install_directory>\temp
- In version 5.15 up to 7.x:
  - <Bamboo_install_directory>\temp
  - <Bamboo_home_directory>\xml-data\configuration\cipher
- In version 8.x and later:
  - <Bamboo_install_directory>\temp
  - <Bamboo_home_directory>\shared\configuration\cipher

Procedure:

Click on the Start menu in Windows
Select Bamboo from the programs list
Click on the Install service option to install Bamboo as a service in Windows
Configure the Service to run as a local user

Due to changes in recent versions of Tomcat and the Commons Daemon, the default user for the Service in Bamboo 7.0.2 and above is Local Service instead of Local System. To work around the restrictions of the Local Service user, our recommendation is to run as a local user.
Click Start service to start the service
You can alternatively run the following batch files to achieve the same steps:
1. <Bamboo_install_directory>\InstallAsService.bat
2. <Bamboo_install_directory>\UninstallService.bat

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