Hello,

I hope that you will be able to provide me with a clear answers on this as I did not find one on the web.

Short question:

Does Office 2013 require a license on per installed instance basis or on per access basis?

Background:

We are interested in creating an App-Layer that would also include the Office suite. We would like to deploy that App-Layer on 300 client machines however we only have 230 Office 2013 (Standard & Professional Plus licenses).

Is it OK from a licensing perspective to deploy the App-Layer (containing the Office suite) and set permissions so that only the machines that are licensed can access the Office Applications?

Is there any document that explains this in more detail?

Hi,

Based on your description, >>Office 2013 (Standard & Professional Plus licenses).<< I think you have the volume license. As far as I know, we can deploy the pre-installation of Office 2013 for 300 client machines, but can not activate all the machines (Max 230 that based on the licenses). If you activate any machine, the key is consumed one time. Thus, we need to activate the fixed machines.

PS: Microsoft has different business policy with different states. I suggest you contact the customer service, explain the scenario to them and ask if they can provide some help:

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/customer-service-phone-numbers/en-us

https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter/Help/Contact.aspx

Regards,

George Zhao
TechNet Community Support

Hi,

if you mean Office 2013 in terminal Server with RDS Technology than you Need to have an Office license in VL for each device has access to Office on the Server. however, if for example only 230 devices have access on th eserver than you Need only to license the 230 devices but other devices without Office licenses will never have Access to Office on the server.

on the Microsoft document about Microsoft applications licensing, we have th efollowing:

A customer has 50 Windows-based desktops in a call center and would like to use Microsoft Office on all of these. Two servers running Windows Server Remote Desktop Services support using Microsoft Office on these desktops. The customer needs to acquire 50 Microsoft Office licensesone for each desktop that accesses Microsoft Office on the servers.

Even if a desktop is expected to use Microsoft Office infrequently, the customer still needs to acquire and assign a Microsoft Office license to that desktop. If 20 of these desktops never use Microsoft Office, then the customer only needs to acquire 30 Microsoft Office licenses. In addition, the customer needs RDS CALs and Windows CALs for each device or user and one or more Windows Server licenses for each server.

thanks

diramoh

The software will be installed locally on all clients, however only the clients that have permission will be able to access the software.

So does MS Office require a license the moment you install the software on a machine? Or does MS Office require a license ONLY if you access/deploy the said software?

Perhaps understanding how Mirage works will help you better understand the issue:

https://www.vmware.com/nl/products/horizon-mirage

Thanks for your help!

BR,

Alex

• Edited by Alex_Cojocaru 19 hours 52 minutes ago