Re: windows 2003 server - roaming

From: Doug Sherman [MVP] (dsherman_at_nospam.tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 20:06:30 -0400

A long as you actually have the licenses, you're OK. The EULA for Office
2003 provides:

"1.2 Alternative Rights for Storage/Network Use. As an alternative to
Section 1.1(a), you may install a copy of the Software on a network storage
device, such as a server computer, and allow one access device, such as a
personal computer, to access and use that licensed copy of the Software over
a private network. You must obtain a license to the Software for each
additional device that accesses and uses the Software installed on the
network storage device, except as permitted by Section 1.4 of this EULA."

I don't think international travelers will be very happy if they have to be
connected to the server in order to run Office apps on their laptops.

Doug Sherman

MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Mac" <mac@invalid.net> wrote in message
news:1ecst2tq68wuu$.dlg@maccccc.net...
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:34:27 -0400, Doug Sherman [MVP] wrote:
>
> > Well, if you don't want to use Terminal Services, you could still run
Office
> > apps on the server because Office supports a client-server
configuration.
> > You still have to install minimal client software on each machine, but
this
> > is easily automated and does not require that you actually visit each
> > machine. See:
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302087
>
> How does the user licenses figure into this? We have several copies of
> office at present, can I just install one on the server and that'll be
used
> by all - we have already paid for the copies we have.
>
> > Also, if your primary motivation in running apps on the server is to
avoid
> > visiting individual machines for installation, you can avoid this by
using
> > Group Policy to assign software to clients. See:
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324750
>
> Several reasons, but the overwhelming two are; more administrative control
> and the ability for our users who travel internationally (a lot) to be
able
> login into a central server that has their apps and files. Seems neater to
> have all the apps and files in one place rather than them logging in (with
> terminal services whilst away) to their seperate actual machines.
>
> Is what I'm doing a reasonable way of tackling remote access?
>
>
>
> > Doug Sherman
> > MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
> >
> > "Mac" <mac@invalid.net> wrote in message
> > news:olp8mf8svuom$.dlg@maccccc.net...
> >> Hi, could someone explain to me if it's possible to run a thin client
> > setup
> >> with windows server 2003.
> >>
> >> What I basically want to do is run all the usuals applications over the
> >> network, such as word, excel, etc... So a user logs onto any machine,
and
> >> is presented with all the applications he usually has access to, and I
> >> don't have to load the application on each machine.
> >>
> >> Is this possible? I know it would be with terminal services, but can
> >> windows do this without terminal services, as a part of a domain?
> >>
> >> Sorry, may be dumb questions but I'm more from a programming
background.
> >>
> >> Oh and also, I know that windows small business server cannot run
terminal
> >> services (on the same server) for applications that are actually on the
> >> server, but is this also the case the standerd 2003 server?
> >>
> >> Confused!

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