# Enroll and start the Elastic Agent - Windows

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enroll-and-start-the-elastic-agent-windows/281275>\
**Category:** Elastic Security\
**Created:** [August 13, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enroll-and-start-the-elastic-agent-windows/281275 "2021-08-13T01:00:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![alenraz05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@alenraz05](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alenraz05)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enroll-and-start-the-elastic-agent-windows/281275/1 "2021-08-13T01:00:28Z")

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Hi I can not find the elastic-agent.exe in the winlogbeat-7.14.0-windows-x86\_64 folder

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/f/8f56012d24ae40640d12974684e4d69b00f27053.png)

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**Author:** ![ferullo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ferullo/32/74240_2.png) [@ferullo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ferullo)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enroll-and-start-the-elastic-agent-windows/281275/2 "2021-08-13T09:31:02Z")

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Elastic Agent is it's own download.

[https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elastic-agent](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elastic-agent)

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**Author:** ![alenraz05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@alenraz05](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alenraz05)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enroll-and-start-the-elastic-agent-windows/281275/3 "2021-08-13T10:32:01Z")

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Hi thanks for the info I am getting the following error.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/b/4b02963ab7e6a996a2c5996979e1de4f7887abc4.png)  
I am going to try the installers over RPM/DEB  
Regards

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**Author:** ![finbarr996](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@finbarr996](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/finbarr996)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enroll-and-start-the-elastic-agent-windows/281275/4 "2021-08-13T12:07:45Z")

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You need to execute the elastic-agent install from within the same folder that you extracted it to.  
If you extract the elastic-agent.zip to a folder called 'elastic-agent' under your 'Program Files' folder, and execute it from there, it will create a new folder called 'Elastic' with a subfolder of 'Agent'.

Make sure your Powershell windows has admin rights.

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**Author:** ![alenraz05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@alenraz05](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alenraz05)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enroll-and-start-the-elastic-agent-windows/281275/5 "2021-08-13T13:29:52Z")

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Thank you so much I managed to install the agent however I do not know how to maintain the agent online

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/2/62511063a43c684e216b81643b9d24725f6fc4d7.png)

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**Author:** ![alenraz05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@alenraz05](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alenraz05)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enroll-and-start-the-elastic-agent-windows/281275/6 "2021-08-13T13:32:15Z")

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**Author:** ![alenraz05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@alenraz05](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alenraz05)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enroll-and-start-the-elastic-agent-windows/281275/7 "2021-08-13T14:05:42Z")

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Finally! I managed make that work Thank you guys

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enroll-and-start-the-elastic-agent-windows/281275/8 "2021-09-10T14:06:10Z")

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