Re: Office Licencing on TS Server

Rich,

Cheers for taking a look. I think this is not the way forward for us and
will have to take a look elsewhere.

So do you use TS? If so, do you setup laptop users with the same office
version etc on their laptop as the TS?

We want to move away from the user having to take their laptop everywhere
and also move away from VPN as sometime this can become a bit unreliable.

The licence agreement seems silly if you ask me and I would have thought
that I would not be the only one who has this problem. Far too restrictive.

Luke

"Rich Raffenetti" wrote:

Luke,
I agree with your assessment. Actually it is worse since the device
must have a volume license for Office and be equal to or greater than in
functionality as compared to the TS version. And ... it's important to
remember that the clients are licensed by device, not user.

So the internet cafe PC seems to be out. On the other hand, the laptop
PC carried into a wireless zone is ok if licensed properly.

On the positive side, this article further clarifies Office use on
Terminal Servers. The waters are less muddy now. :-)
Rich

"Luke Chalmers" <LukeChalmers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rich,

Good spot! My bad. Try this one!

Many thanks for taking a look.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/7/7/17745e4a-5d31-4de4-a416-07c646336d94/desktop_application_with_windows_server_terminal_services.doc

"Rich Raffenetti" wrote:

I found the link to be about TS Gateway. Are you sure this is the right
link?

"Luke Chalmers" <LukeChalmers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I have read the following article and found the licencing agreement a
bit
surprising and was wondering if someone would clear something up for
me.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/9da3742f-699d-4476-b050-c50aa14aaf081033.mspx?mfr=true

This a word document from MSFT site explaining how to correctly license
Office on a Terminal Services Server.

As I read it, you must have a full copy of Office on the remote desktop
machine (machine you are using to access TS) in order to use Office on
the
Terminal Server?!?!

If you use say a machine in an internet cafe, you won't be able to use
Outlook, Word etc unless Office is actually installed on the internet
cafe
machine.

Sort of defies the point of having TS but I thought I could licence the
TS
server with say 25 office licences so that 25 users can use Office
remotely
using TS.

Have I read this wrong? If not, how do people get round this? Do they
use
Citrix?

Many thanks,

Sorrry if I have confused anyone out there!!

Luke






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