Hi does anyone have any exper

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Hi < CL09KU1K7|prefect community> does anyone have any experience running prefect agent in Windows Server

Anna Geller · Answer

The answer to this can be yes no not sure whether this would help you What s your actual question are you just getting started with Prefect We plan to have a release for Prefect 2 0 with Windows support within the next two weeks <https discourse prefect io t should i start with prefect 2 0 orion skipping prefect 1 0 544|This page> may point you to the right resources

Dung Khuc · Answer

What do you mean by Windows support in Prefect 2 0 Is it for Server or Agent

Dung Khuc · Answer

We have some VMs in our network that s running Windows Server as the OS not Linux We want to run Prefect Agent there but not sure what would be the best practices for that Documentation on Agent installation seems to target specifically Linux systems <https docs prefect io orchestration agents overview html agent types>

Anna Geller · Answer

the linked topic explains the difference between 1 0 and 2 0 you can use Windows Server to host both local and Docker agents for 1 0

Dung Khuc · Answer

< Anna Geller> do you have any recommendation on how to keep the agent local docker always up and running in windows

Dung Khuc · Answer

Also I need to ensure that the agent will be started automatically after a reboot

Anna Geller · Answer

there is something like Windows Service Manager there is some Windows service to run daemon processes on Windows can you ask your server admins it works the same way as any long running background process

Dung Khuc · Answer

We can That probably will take some more time than to handle that within our team but probably the only way to to go Thanks for helping

Anna Geller · Answer

I think it s literally called <https www techopedia com definition 13530 windows service ~ text=A 20Windows 20service 20is 20an and 20has 20no 20user 20interface |Windows Service>

Dung Khuc · Answer

Thanks for the article I ll have our team test that out