That document is straight from Microsoft's website.
Remember with microsoft, you can ask 3 different licensing experts and get 4 different answers. This paper is in writing.
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Interesting...where did you get this info? We had MS come right in and tell us we were not in compliance with licensing for Office.
adam
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Huh, that's not what the documentation says. It says that if a device is licensed and has office installed, then that device is allowed to run office from a terminal server session. Directly from the doc -
Q. Once a device is licensed for a Desktop Application can I use that application both locally on the device and through Terminal Services?
A. Yes. A Desktop Application license gives the licensee the right to locally install the software and also to use the same software through Terminal Services. The licensee, however, is not required to locally install the software and, in the case of Terminal Services, local installation may not be technically possible or desired.
Q. If I already have a device is license for a Desktop Application, what additional licenses do I need to use that device as a remote client within a Terminal Services environment?
A. If the device owned by the end user is already licensed for the Desktop Application software, only the Windows Server and Terminal Services licenses are necessary for remote Terminal Services usage of that Desktop Application.
-----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam.Baum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:22 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Office and legalities
We found out the hard way (from Microsoft) that Office licensing in a TS environment is not so simple. MS does not offer a special licensing program for Office. If your MF users also have Office on their desktops, then you will need additional licenses to use it in the TS world. We have 500+ metaframe users who have Office on their work desktops. Microsoft came back and said we need an additional license for each user if they want to run it from metaframe. We ended up publishing Office to only those users/workgroups that purchased the additional licensing. The bulk of our users get the Office viewers when they remote in.
By the way, these are NOT concurrent licenses. They must be per user and limited to those users who have purchased the additional licenses.
adam
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Can I get some people to weigh in on the following scenario? -
With a published application environment, you can restrict who gets access to what. If you don't want someone running office on a Citrix box, then you can prevent them from running Office on a Citrix box. So let's say I have 5 MS office 2003 licenses. I install it and publish it for 5 users in the farm. Am I legal within those boundaries from a Microsoft licensing perspective? Enviroment is Win2003 TS with PS 4.0
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