# Winlogbeat service failing to start

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-service-failing-to-start/258414>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [December 11, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-service-failing-to-start/258414 "2020-12-11T13:07:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Craig2188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/858c86/32.png) [@Craig2188](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Craig2188)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-service-failing-to-start/258414/1 "2020-12-11T13:07:41Z")

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Hi,  
I have installed Winlogbeat 7.9.2 onto a 2008 32bit server via the ps1 file. I go to start the service and get the following error:

The winlogbeat service failed to start due to the following error:  
winlogbeat is not a valid Win32 application.

This is all I got from eventviewer, no logs being generated from winlogbeat at all

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**Author:** ![willemdh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/willemdh/32/16922_2.png) [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-service-failing-to-start/258414/2 "2020-12-11T19:12:41Z")

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@Craig2188,

I think 2008 is no longer supported?

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**Author:** ![Craig2188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/858c86/32.png) [@Craig2188](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Craig2188)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-service-failing-to-start/258414/3 "2020-12-16T10:13:26Z")

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MSI didn't work, needs version 5 MSIEXEC, this server only uses maximum 4.5.

I have got around this though and managed to get version 6.8.13 of Winlogbeat working on it

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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:** [January 13, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-service-failing-to-start/258414/4 "2021-01-13T12:13:46Z")

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