diff --git a/CMakeModules/prepare_asapo.cmake b/CMakeModules/prepare_asapo.cmake
index 66c7e52517e3af216024fe3c1b3896d0ce37ddac..bcf2db0fcd819039856d419e85e7f3d00cc8be3b 100644
--- a/CMakeModules/prepare_asapo.cmake
+++ b/CMakeModules/prepare_asapo.cmake
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ function(prepare_asapo)
         configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/automatic/settings/authorizer_settings.json.tpl.win authorizer.json.tpl COPYONLY)
         configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/automatic/common_scripts/start_services.bat start_services.bat COPYONLY)
         configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/automatic/common_scripts/stop_services.bat stop_services.bat COPYONLY)
-        configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/automatic/common_scripts/start_authorizer.bat start_authorizer.bat COPYONLY)
-        configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/automatic/common_scripts/stop_authorizer.bat stop_authorizer.bat COPYONLY)
-
         configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/config/nomad/receiver_tcp.nmd.in  receiver_tcp.nmd @ONLY)
         configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/config/nomad/nginx_kill_win.nmd nginx_kill.nmd @ONLY)
     else()
diff --git a/tests/automatic/common_scripts/start_authorizer.bat b/tests/automatic/common_scripts/start_authorizer.bat
deleted file mode 100644
index de5ada62fd36bcc868e23b0831c2883fc0eb40c2..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tests/automatic/common_scripts/start_authorizer.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-c:\opt\consul\nomad run authorizer.nmd
-c:\opt\consul\nomad run nginx.nmd
-
-ping 192.0.2.1 -n 1 -w 3000 > nul
-
-set i=0
-:repeat
-set /a i=%i%+1
-echo %i%
-if %i% EQU 20 (
-    goto :error
-)
-ping 192.0.2.1 -n 1 -w 1000 >nul
-curl --silent --data "" 127.0.0.1:8400/asapo-authorizer/authorize --stderr -  | findstr /c:"Bad Request" || goto :repeat
-echo asapo services ready
-
-goto :clean
-
-:error
-echo error starting  asapo services
-call :clean
-exit /b 1
-
-:clean
diff --git a/tests/automatic/common_scripts/stop_authorizer.bat b/tests/automatic/common_scripts/stop_authorizer.bat
deleted file mode 100644
index 27b0b30b9ed382e7baee3527e78d392cddea5c1e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tests/automatic/common_scripts/stop_authorizer.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-c:\opt\consul\nomad stop authorizer
-c:\opt\consul\nomad stop nginx
-c:\opt\consul\nomad run nginx_kill.nmd  && c:\opt\consul\nomad stop -yes -purge nginx_kill
diff --git a/tests/automatic/full_chain/simple_chain_filegen_readdata_file/check_linux.sh b/tests/automatic/full_chain/simple_chain_filegen_readdata_file/check_linux.sh
index 59992c6e45cd481a1c78e5820fc546c91d4a627e..e02147fd621836aaf0ba2bfaa7339a37bf0b3915 100644
--- a/tests/automatic/full_chain/simple_chain_filegen_readdata_file/check_linux.sh
+++ b/tests/automatic/full_chain/simple_chain_filegen_readdata_file/check_linux.sh
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ Cleanup() {
     rm -rf /tmp/asapo/test_in
     rm -rf ${receiver_folder}
     influx -execute "drop database ${monitor_database_name}"
-    nomad stop authorizer
     echo "db.dropDatabase()" | mongo ${beamtime_id}_detector
     rm out.txt
 }