My goal is to migrate my application which is running on jboss v4 to jboss v7.1, my application is completely based on EJB2.0 and so as starting point, I wanted to install jboss v7.1 and get it up and running. I have downloaded tar.gz file and i have untared it using 7-zip tool, now when i try to run standalone.bat script, I get below mentioned log message: From errors, it is evident that C:\Users\ados\Softwares\jboss-as-7.1.0.Final\standalone\configuration\mgmt-users.properties and C:\Users\ados\Softwares\jboss-as-7.1.0.Final\standalone\configuration\application-users.properties files are missing. I have checked in the standalone folder and yes, i do not have those file, my question is: Are those files present in the distribution, also when i tried to download zip file, i was not successful in getting data and ended up with error message as compressed file does not contain any data. Also if i try to untar file via cygwin then it ends up with below mentioned error: gzip: stdin