Atlassian Bamboo as a service in Windows 64

If you try and run Atlassian Bamboo as a service on Window Vista 64 bit (and Windows 7 bit), you will get this in the bamboo.log:

INFO::jetty-7.2.1.v20101111

WARN::tmpdir

java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the path specified

at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)

The workaround for Windows 7 (source: http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-8014 and http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/YYPcDQ) is to edit the conf/wrapper.conf file to add a java.io.tmpdir setting.

In Windows Vista, that does not work. Instead you need to change the service configuration to run as "this account" and enter a valid local user account. Then grant the "login as service" privilege to that account. Source: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Running+Bamboo+service+on+Windows+as+the+local+user