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* make windows non that prominent 

after receiving enough questions how windows installations can be handled this should make it more cleear.

* Update pages/faq.rst

Co-authored-by: Aaron Sachs <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: Aaron Sachs <[email protected]>
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Can I install the Graylog Server on Windows?
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Even though our engineers say it is “technically possible”, don’t do it. The Graylog server is built using Java, so technically it can run anywhere. But we currently have it optimized to run better on other operating systems. If you don’t feel comfortable running your own Linux system, we recommend you use our Linux virtual appliance which will run under VMWare.
Running Graylog on Windows is not supported.

Can I run Graylog on Azure?
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Microsoft Windows
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Unfortunately there is no supported way to run Graylog on Microsoft
Windows operating systems even though all parts run on the Java Virtual
Machine. We recommend to run the :ref:`virtual machine appliances
<virtual-machine-appliances>` on a Windows host. It should be technically
possible to run Graylog on Windows but it is most probably not worth the time
to work your way around the cliffs.

Should you require running Graylog on Windows, you need to disable the message
journal in ``graylog-server`` by changing the following setting in the
``graylog.conf``::

message_journal_enabled = false

Due to restrictions of how Windows handles file locking the journal will not
work correctly.

**Please note that this impacts Graylog's ability to buffer messages, so we
strongly recommend running Graylog on Linux. Consider a Linux virtual machine
on a Windows host. Graylog setups on Windows are no fun and not officially
supported.**
Windows.

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