Dear all,
I would like to use the ado parallel on a virtual machine (remote data access machine due to security issues of the data provider). The machine runs Windows 7, Stata 16.1 and the ado is installed (1.20.1). However, as soon as I enter

Code:
parallel initialize 4
I get the following error message:

parallel_setstatapath(): 3499 default_statapath() not found
<istmt>: - function returned error

So I tried to set the path like

Code:
parallel initialize 4, statapath("C:\Program Files\Stata16\StataMP-64.exe")
I get the same error. I checked, the path is correct and the .exe is there (using pwd and cd).

Any ideas what is wrong here?