diff --git a/akka-bbb-apps/build.sbt b/akka-bbb-apps/build.sbt
index cfb3febd1b5ddc8ef683f82fa3fa8bbd488f7a2e..f71d700eb033884e598fe67230c319d708e81181 100755
--- a/akka-bbb-apps/build.sbt
+++ b/akka-bbb-apps/build.sbt
@@ -76,4 +76,6 @@ daemonUser in Linux := user
 // group which will execute the application
 daemonGroup in Linux := group
 
+javaOptions in Universal ++= Seq("-J-Xms130m", "-J-Xmx256m", "-Dconfig.file=conf/application.conf")
+
 debianPackageDependencies in Debian ++= Seq("java8-runtime-headless", "bash")
diff --git a/akka-bbb-apps/run.sh b/akka-bbb-apps/run.sh
index fb253febdd48027f6337030036ed2384a76c1714..3e24e4cf0a4fe68b386aff857a8c6cf2d051f5fd 100755
--- a/akka-bbb-apps/run.sh
+++ b/akka-bbb-apps/run.sh
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
-sbt clean run
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+sbt clean stage
+sudo service bbb-apps-akka stop
+cd target/universal/stage
+./bin/bbb-apps-akka
diff --git a/akka-bbb-apps/src/main/resources/application.conf b/akka-bbb-apps/src/main/resources/application.conf
deleted file mode 100755
index 591f22a88f5ef2613020407b8dc6f493bb6cf046..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/akka-bbb-apps/src/main/resources/application.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-akka {
-  actor {
-    debug {
-      # enable DEBUG logging of all AutoReceiveMessages (Kill, PoisonPill et.c.)
-      autoreceive = on
-      # enable DEBUG logging of actor lifecycle changes
-      lifecycle = on
-    }
-  }
-  loggers = ["akka.event.slf4j.Slf4jLogger"]
-  loglevel = "DEBUG"
-  
-  redis-publish-worker-dispatcher {
-      mailbox-type = "akka.dispatch.SingleConsumerOnlyUnboundedMailbox"
-      # Throughput defines the maximum number of messages to be
-      # processed per actor before the thread jumps to the next actor.
-      # Set to 1 for as fair as possible.
-      throughput = 512
-    }
-    
-  redis-subscriber-worker-dispatcher {
-      mailbox-type = "akka.dispatch.SingleConsumerOnlyUnboundedMailbox"
-      # Throughput defines the maximum number of messages to be
-      # processed per actor before the thread jumps to the next actor.
-      # Set to 1 for as fair as possible.
-      throughput = 512
-    }
-}
-
-redis {
-    host="127.0.0.1"
-    port=6379
-    password=""
-    # recording keys should expire in 14 days
-    keyExpiry=1209600
-}
-
-expire {
-  # time in seconds
-  lastUserLeft = 60
-  neverJoined = 300
-}
-
-services {
-  bbbWebAPI = "http://192.168.23.33/bigbluebutton/api"
-  sharedSecret = "changeme"
-}
-
-red5 {
-    deskshareip="10.130.218.89"
-    deskshareapp="video-broadcast"
-}
-
-eventBus {
-  meetingManagerChannel = "MeetingManagerChannel"
-  outMessageChannel = "OutgoingMessageChannel"
-  incomingJsonMsgChannel = "IncomingJsonMsgChannel"
-  outBbbMsgMsgChannel = "OutBbbMsgChannel"
-}
-
-sharedNotes {
-  maxNumberOfNotes = 3
-  maxNumberOfUndos = 30
-}
-
-http {
-  interface = "0.0.0.0"
-  port = 9999
-}
-
-services {
-  telizeHost = "www.telize.com"
-  telizePort = 80
-}
-
-apps {
-  checkPermissions = true
-  endMeetingWhenNoMoreAuthedUsers = false
-  endMeetingWhenNoMoreAuthedUsersAfterMinutes = 2
-}
-
-voiceConf {
-  recordPath = "/var/freeswitch/meetings"
-}
-
-recording {
-  chapterBreakLengthInMinutes = 180
-}
-
-whiteboard {
-  multiUserDefault = false
-}
-
diff --git a/akka-bbb-apps/src/main/resources/logback.xml b/akka-bbb-apps/src/main/resources/logback.xml
deleted file mode 100755
index 08455532747c4379ccce6eca3ce211a3bd9cca2d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/akka-bbb-apps/src/main/resources/logback.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<configuration>
-<appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
-    <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
-      <Pattern>%d{"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX"} %-5level %logger{35} - %msg%n</Pattern>
-    </layout>
-</appender>
-
-  <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
-    <File>logs/bbb-apps-akka.log</File>
-    <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
-      <FileNamePattern>logs/bbb-apps-akka.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log</FileNamePattern>
-      <!-- keep 14 days worth of history -->
-      <MaxHistory>14</MaxHistory>
-    </rollingPolicy>
-    <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
-      <Pattern>%d{"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX"} %-5level %logger{35} - %msg%n</Pattern>
-    </layout>
-  </appender>
-      
-    <logger name="akka" level="INFO" />
-    <logger name="org.bigbluebutton" level="DEBUG" />
-    <logger name="io.lettuce" level="INFO" />
-
-    <root level="DEBUG">
-        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
-        <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
-    </root>
-
-</configuration>
diff --git a/akka-bbb-apps/src/universal/conf/application.ini b/akka-bbb-apps/src/universal/conf/application.ini
deleted file mode 100644
index fd2def1422e02c232613e5ac925ebd482d0e4508..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/akka-bbb-apps/src/universal/conf/application.ini
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-# #################################
-# ##### Default configuration #####
-# #################################
-
-# Available replacements 
-# ------------------------------------------------
-# ${{author}}           debian author
-# ${{descr}}            debian package description
-# ${{exec}}             startup script name
-# ${{chdir}}            app directory
-# ${{retries}}          retries for startup
-# ${{retryTimeout}}     retry timeout
-# ${{app_name}}         normalized app name
-# ${{daemon_user}}      daemon user
-# -------------------------------------------------
-# DEPRECATED, use -J-Xmx1024m instead
-# -mem 1024
-
-# Setting -X directly (-J is stripped)
-# -J-X
-# -J-Xmx1024
-
-# Add additional jvm parameters
-# -Dkey=val
-
-# For play applications you may set
-# -Dpidfile.path=/var/run/${{app_name}}/play.pid
-
-# Turn on JVM debugging, open at the given port
-# -jvm-debug <port>  
-
-# Don't run the java version check
-# -no-version-check
-
--J-Xms130m
--J-Xmx256m
-
-# With universal:packageBin:
-#   - setup with a configuration tool after unzip
-#   - use the path to the application.ini file
-# -Dconfig.file=${{path_to}}/conf/application.conf
--Dconfig.file=/usr/share/bbb-apps-akka/conf/application.conf