Hi,
Based on my research, desktop applications such as the Office Suite are licensed per
device, not per user. The following comes directly from the
Microsoft Product Use Rights document dated January, 2010: You must acquire a license for each device on or from which you access or use the software (locally or remotely over a network)You may access copies of the software installed on a network
device only from a device that has a license for the software.
In other words, if you can walk up to a device and use it to interact with an Office application, you must have an Office license for that device. It doesnt matter whether that device is a PC or laptop that has the Office bits installed on its local
hard drive, or whether it is a thin client device that allows you to connect to a XenApp server, you need to have assigned a license to that device.
That begs the question of what assigned means, and the answer particularly for devices like thin clients, where you couldnt install the application locally if you wanted to is that you are on the honor system. You decide, in the privacy of your
own conscience, which licenses you are assigning to which devices with the caveat that, if youre ever audited, youd better be able to produce a license for every device people are using to run Office apps. You can reassign a license from one device
to another, but not more often than every 90 days.
Quote from:
http://www.mooselogic.com/blog/licensing-office-in-a-remote-desktop-environment
Regards,
Yan Li