diff --git a/reference/commands/config.rst b/reference/commands/config.rst
index 589fd4b4dbd1..9d1b254184e5 100644
--- a/reference/commands/config.rst
+++ b/reference/commands/config.rst
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ Displays all the Conan built-in configurations. There are 2 groups:
     tools.cmake.cmaketoolchain:user_toolchain: Inject existing user toolchains at the beginning of conan_toolchain.cmake
     tools.cmake:cmake_program: Path to CMake executable
     tools.compilation:verbosity: Verbosity of compilation tools if set. Possible values are 'quiet' and 'verbose'
+    tools.deployer:symlinks: Set to False to disable deployers copying symlinks
     tools.env.virtualenv:powershell: If it is set to True it will generate powershell launchers if os=Windows
     tools.files.download:retry: Number of retries in case of failure when downloading
     tools.files.download:retry_wait: Seconds to wait between download attempts
diff --git a/reference/extensions/deployers.rst b/reference/extensions/deployers.rst
index 314c3500e044..9fb6a75b358b 100644
--- a/reference/extensions/deployers.rst
+++ b/reference/extensions/deployers.rst
@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ This deployer will output your dependencies in a tree folder such as:
   See :ref:`the Conan stability<stability>` section for more information.
 
 
+configuration
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Both the ``full_deploy`` and the ``direct_deploy`` understand when the conf ``tools.deployer:symlinks`` is set to ``False``
+to disable deployers copying symlinks. This can be convenient in systems that do not support symlinks and could fail
+if deploying packages that contain symlinks.
+
+
 Custom deployers
 ----------------