I took a look at the MS Terminal Services License Basics and from that it looks like you have to have an office license for any device that uses office. So I think that means your office Desktop, Your Home computer, Your Laptop (possibly covered by "Secondary Use Document" AND ANY OTHER MACHINE YOU USE OFFICE FROM. (4+ licenses) So if I use a browser on a machine other than that mentioned above (on a trip to Africa) to access my TS I have to have a license for office for that machine. Nothing in any of the stuff I have seen says anything about per user. The "Secondary Use Rights" document talks about being able to use your office PC MS office license on a portable PC (no definition of portable, I assume they mean laptop). But going by the vague information in the "MS TS License Basics" (which supersedes? the "Secondary Use Document"?) you may or many not be able to run office via TS on the laptop without buying another license. This sucks. Unless MS defines Portable PC as a Virtual Portable PC for the purposes of using TS. Anyway thanks for providing the info. bye -----Original Message----- From: John C. Stuhlmiller [mailto:jstuhlm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tue, September 17, 02 5:07 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: MS software licenses I THINK IF YOU ARE USING THE OFFICE PRODUCT VIA AN RDP CLIENT OR A CITRIX CLIENT YOU ARE RUNNING THE APP ON ANOTHER MACHINE WITH THE OUTPUT SHOWING ON THE SCREEN WHEREVER YOU MAY BE SO AS FAR AS LICENSING YOU NEED ONE LICENSE PER USER BUT YOU CAN GO HERE AND LOOK FOR YOUR INSTANCE http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources/volbrief.asp OR HERE IS A SPECIFIC CASE YOU ARE REFERRING TO http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/downloads/secondary_use.doc John C. Stuhlmiller MCSE, CCA & A+ -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stratton, Doug MSER:EX Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:53 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] MS software licenses Do any of you know what your allowed to do as far as MS licenses for Office and such? I was thinking you could buy one license per person and then it would not matter where they use it. In the office, at home as long as they only use it at one location at a time. Some people are saying it does not work that way and that you need to buy one license for each machine that same person uses. That would mean that a person would need a license for: their office machine, their home machine, any machine they log onto while out of town (how the heck would you handle that???, internet cafes and all that???) Thanks for any info. I know when it comes right down to it, it is whatever MS says. Doug Stratton, TDA, Workplace Support, http://icw.ista.gov.bc.ca/I_wss/workplace.asp <http://icw.ista.gov.bc.ca/I_wss/workplace.asp> Common IT Services, Ministry of Management Services, Province of British Columbia Phone: 250 356-6678 Fax: 250 356-1960 MailTo:Doug.M.Stratton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <MailTo:Doug.M.Stratton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> D Sharped ********************************************** This weeks sponsor Jetro Platforms Jetro Platforms Ltd. is an enterprise software developer, bringing a new era in server-based computing, secured internet access, and disaster recovery. We make IT Easy! http://www.jp-inc.com/ *********************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link. http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ********************************************** This weeks sponsor Jetro Platforms Jetro Platforms Ltd. is an enterprise software developer, bringing a new era in server-based computing, secured internet access, and disaster recovery. We make IT Easy! http://www.jp-inc.com/ *********************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link. http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ********************************************** This weeks sponsor Jetro Platforms Jetro Platforms Ltd. is an enterprise software developer, bringing a new era in server-based computing, secured internet access, and disaster recovery. We make IT Easy! http://www.jp-inc.com/ *********************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link. http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm