# Jenkins, unable to run Appium Tests on windows server 2016

**URL:** <https://discuss.appium.io/t/jenkins-unable-to-run-appium-tests-on-windows-server-2016/26122>\
**Category:** Issues/Bugs\
**Created:** [April 24, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/jenkins-unable-to-run-appium-tests-on-windows-server-2016/26122 "2019-04-24T19:39:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.appium.io/t/jenkins-unable-to-run-appium-tests-on-windows-server-2016/26122/1 "2019-04-24T19:39:32Z")

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Currently when I run Appium test using Jenkins , I am getting below error message.  
But same will work when we run test locally in the server without Jenkins. Can you please let me know how we run /start Appium server through Jenkins and run the tests.

13:44:55 Error Message: Invalid server instance exception has occurred: There is no installed nodes! Please install node via NPM ([https://www.npmjs.com/package/appium#using-node-js](https://www.npmjs.com/package/appium#using-node-js)) or download and install Appium app ([http://appium.io/downloads.html](http://appium.io/downloads.html)) 13:44:55 Stacktrace: 13:44:55 at OpenQA.Selenium.Appium.Service.AppiumServiceBuilder.get\_InstalledNodeInCurrentFileSystem() 13:44:55 at OpenQA.Selenium.Appium.Service.AppiumServiceBuilder.CheckAppiumJS() 13:44:55 at OpenQA.Selenium.Appium.Service.AppiumServiceBuilder.get\_Args() 13:44:55 at OpenQA.Selenium.Appium.Service.AppiumServiceBuilder.Build() 13:44:55 at UI.Automation.Core.DriverFactory.Setup().TearDown() in C:\Users…\Source\Repos\UI-Automation\UI.Automation.Core\DriverFactory.cs:line 42

Installed nodejs ,npm and appium versions are :

C:\Windows\system32\>node -v  
v10.15.3

C:\Windows\system32\>npm -v  
6.4.1

C:\Windows\system32\>appium -v  
1.11.0

Also added below in PATH environment variables

%USERPROFILE%\AppData \Roaming\npm;  
C:\Program Files\nodejs  
C:\Program Files\nodejs\node\_modules\npm\bin;

Appium tests are running using command :gauge.exe run specs\UserGet.spec