diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7e158073421de..a27f5dc5d8c36 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ Inspired from [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 - Added feature to ignore indexes starting with dot during shard limit validation.([#4695](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/4695))
 ### Changed
 - Refactored BalancedAllocator.Balancer to LocalShardsBalancer ([#4818](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/4818))
+- Skip SymbolicLinkPreservingTarIT when running on Windows ([#5023](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/5023))
 ### Deprecated
 ### Removed
 - Remove RepositoryData.MIN_VERSION support for next major release ([4729](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/4729))
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/integTest/java/org/opensearch/gradle/tar/SymbolicLinkPreservingTarIT.java b/buildSrc/src/integTest/java/org/opensearch/gradle/tar/SymbolicLinkPreservingTarIT.java
index b70574c507f70..61aa55b9c6b53 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/integTest/java/org/opensearch/gradle/tar/SymbolicLinkPreservingTarIT.java
+++ b/buildSrc/src/integTest/java/org/opensearch/gradle/tar/SymbolicLinkPreservingTarIT.java
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveInputStream;
 import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.bzip2.BZip2CompressorInputStream;
 import org.apache.commons.compress.compressors.gzip.GzipCompressorInputStream;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os;
 import org.opensearch.gradle.test.GradleIntegrationTestCase;
 import org.gradle.api.GradleException;
 import org.gradle.testkit.runner.GradleRunner;
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@
 
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.anyOf;
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.equalTo;
+import static org.junit.Assume.assumeFalse;
 
 public class SymbolicLinkPreservingTarIT extends GradleIntegrationTestCase {
 
@@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ public class SymbolicLinkPreservingTarIT extends GradleIntegrationTestCase {
 
     @Before
     public void before() throws IOException {
+        assumeFalse("Skip tar tests on windows.", Os.isFamily(Os.FAMILY_WINDOWS));
         final Path realFolder = temporaryFolder.getRoot().toPath().resolve("real-folder");
         Files.createDirectory(realFolder);
         Files.createFile(realFolder.resolve("file"));