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Windows Endpoint Upgrade Considerations

This section describes items you should consider when upgrading CA Access Control on Windows endpoints.

Reboot May Be Required When Upgrading

When you upgrade an endpoint to this release from r12.0 SP1 or later, it is not mandatory that you reboot the computer. After the upgrade, CA Access Control preserves backwards compatibility. However, the upgrade is not complete until you reboot the computer, and all new functionality may not be supported until after the reboot.

When you upgrade an r8.0 SP1 or r12.0 endpoint to this release, you must reboot the computer.

CA Access Control r12.6 Requires a Hot Fix to Manage Policy Models on CA Access Control r12.5 and r12.0 SP1

If you want to use an CA Access Control r12.6 server to manage policy models on r12.5 and r12.0 SP1 endpoints, you must install hot fix T537526 on the r12.5 endpoints and T537569 on the r12.0 SP1 endpoints.

Note: For assistance, contact CA Support at http://ca.com/support.

Change in Default Access to Database

The default access to seosdb, the CA Access Control database, is now none. In r12.5 SP2 and earlier, the default access to the database was read.

Note: CA Access Control internal processes have full access to the database and the NT AUTHORITY\System user has read access to the database.