Need Clarification on using Windows Server as Radius

Pretty Simple Requirements for our Radius
Allow domain joined PC's access to the wireless using AD Creds (no client cert)   -   PEAP-MSCHAPv2
Allow non domain PC's access to the wireless using AD Creds (no client cert)   -  PEAP-MSCHAPv2
Allow non domain joined phones/tables access to the wireless with AD Creds. (no client cert)  -  PEAP-MSCHAPv2
All users will have AD credentials but my company does alot of BYOD so therefore many of the devices are non domain.
We currently are running radius on an old Cisco 4.2 server that is going end of life.   That server has only a self gen cert on it and we do not have to worry about client side certs.  
We are just looking to see if we can replace our current ACS deployment with a Windows offering.
Thanks
Mike 

Yes - this will work!
With the Windows Radius server you would create a simple network access policy for the AD groups of all those users (using whatever device) and configure PEAP with MSCHAPv2 for that policy.
Or do you need more complicated logic in the policy? Then the CISCO and MS options would need to be compared in more detail. With NPS you create policies that are applied to group of users or machines that meet defined criteria. In your case the criterion
is membership in a group and the actual policy constraints define the authentication method. For both criteria and constraints there are loads of options.
Windows NPS could use a self-signed certificate on principle, too - you could use IIS' built-in capability to create self-signed certificate.
Elke

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