https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Unable-to-start-Splunk-on-Windows-after-upgrading-quot-Splunkd/m-p/271689#M52175 <P>I suggest that you manually install the Splunk service by running the following command from the /bin directory: splunk enable boot-start</P> <P>You may have tried to upgrade Splunk with a user account that has does not have administrative privileges.</P> Fri, 09 Sep 2016 17:14:05 GMT phadnett_splunk 2016-09-09T17:14:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Unable-to-start-Splunk-on-Windows-after-upgrading-quot-Splunkd/m-p/271688#M52174 <P>We recently updated from Windows Server 2008 SP2 to 2008 R2 SP1 so we could upgrade from Splunk version 6.0 to 6.4. Now we are unable to start Splunk and we notice that the application isn't in the list of services.msc.</P> <P>Starting splunk server daemon (splunkd)...</P> <PRE><CODE>Splunkd: Unable to start the service: The specified service does not exist as an installed service. E:\Program Files\Splunk\bin&gt; </CODE></PRE> Fri, 09 Sep 2016 17:12:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Unable-to-start-Splunk-on-Windows-after-upgrading-quot-Splunkd/m-p/271688#M52174 phadnett_splunk 2016-09-09T17:12:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Unable-to-start-Splunk-on-Windows-after-upgrading-quot-Splunkd/m-p/271689#M52175 <P>I suggest that you manually install the Splunk service by running the following command from the /bin directory: splunk enable boot-start</P> <P>You may have tried to upgrade Splunk with a user account that has does not have administrative privileges.</P> Fri, 09 Sep 2016 17:14:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Unable-to-start-Splunk-on-Windows-after-upgrading-quot-Splunkd/m-p/271689#M52175 phadnett_splunk 2016-09-09T17:14:05Z