Will ACS Express ever support 2008 R2?

[scott.herrick]

My company has started the migration from Windows 2003 to 2008 R2.  Will my ACS Express boxes (currently running 5.0.1) ever have an upgrade option to work with 2008 R2?  Do I need to trash the ACS Express appliances for some other solution?

[andamani]

Hi,

I guess you can upgrade the ACS to 5.2. ACS 5.2 supports Win2k8 R2.

The following link explains the same:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_system/5.2/installation/guide/csacs_upg.html#wp1187611

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Anisha

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[scott.herrick]

ACS and ACSExpress are different products.   The 5.2 code that is available for ACS is not available for ACS Express.

[scott.herrick]

My Cisco ACS Express devices have been decommissioned.  I moved all of my TACACS services to a pair of ClearBox TACACS servers.  I didn’t want to but had no choice.  The lone 2003 AD Domain Controller started producing errors and causing problems in AD.   We were forced to move to a 2008 R2 AD DC to replace the problematic 2003 server.

ACS Express (it runs on the Cisco Application Deployment Engine (ADE1010)) does not and apparently never will support authentication against a MS Windows 2008 R2 domain.  For the small number of devices I could not cost justify the full ACS product.

Cisco appears to have abandoned the ACS Express product.