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I previously posted about not being able to get Cisco’s VPN client installed on my Windows 2003 server machine.  Cisco says they don’t support the OS so they are absolutely no help whatsoever.  However, Morten posted a comment on my last post which led me to the solution!  He said that you have to use the NON-msi installer.  So per his advice I tried to install install the 4.0.5(A) NON-msi install package… and walla!  It worked like a charm!  VPN client works perfectly.  I’m not sure what the difference is between the two installers but the regular one worked just fine.  The other crazy thing is, the VPN client works just fine too.  Not any difference from when I used it on XP.
Thanks again Morten!

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I just installed Win2k3 server on my laptop – everything work just perfect except one thing.  Cisco’s VPN client software won’t even install on the machine.  It fails saying something about Virtual Adapter couldn’t install or something. Extensive searches of the internet turn up nothing.  A visit to the Cisco site reveals that Windows 2003 isn’t supported!  How can a company as big as Cisco not support Windows 2003!?  Are they making the totally incorrect assumption that people won’t want to use VPN with Windows 2003?  They can’t be that dense.
Maybe they just assume that since Windows 2003 has VPN built in I’ll just use that instead of their product all together?

Misc cisco, installation, vpn, windows server