Hi, I want to know how the licensing works when there is a terminal server for 5 users with also a Microsoft Office Volume License for these 5 users and 2 administrators. This would make a system with a total of 7 users, all access to the Office license. I guess this conflicts with the license. Does every registered user on the terminal server claim a license of both the terminal server and Office license? Even if it's just an Admin not working with the system but just maintaining the operations? Thank you! Regards.

For licensing questions, I suggest contacting Microsoft Licensing Center for detailed explanation. http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/contact-us.aspx For licensing questions, please call 1-800-426-9400 (select option 4), Monday through Friday, 6:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. (PST) to speak directly to a Microsoft licensing specialist. Worldwide customers can use the Guide to Worldwide Microsoft Licensing Sites http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/index/worldwide.asp to find contact information in their locations For Terminal server licensing you can post here. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverTS/threads Thanks

Hi, Office is licensed per-device (e.g. per workstation keyboard), and you don't need to consider the RDS/TS server a device if nobody is logging onto the server console to use Office. More info here: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/office2010.aspxDon

Hi, Office is licensed per-device (e.g. per workstation keyboard), and you don't need to consider the RDS/TS server a device if nobody is logging onto the server console to use Office. More info here: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/office2010.aspxDon

Don is correct, but let me explain it a bit. When you say you have 5 users with a Microsoft Office volume license, you mean, I hope, that you have 5 volume licenses, each of which is assigned to one of your five users, and not 1 volume license assigned to five users. The latter is not a legal scenario. Second, if a PC has a proper Office license, you can install Office on the PC, but you can also install a copy on the network for use by any device that has its own Office license. In this case, the RDS device, which is a network device, doesn't need its own Office license. You can put Office on there for free. However, only devices to which an Office license has been assigned can use Office on that RDS server without requiring an additional license. For an example of an access device that would need an additional license, let's assume one of your users connects to RDS with their iPad instead of their licensed PC, and that the RDS session they access has Office in it. Although Office doesn't run on the iPad, the iPad still needs an Office license. You can't do anything with that copy of Office--that is, you can't install it anywhere--but the license lets the iPad access Office running on RDS. So RDS licensing and Office licensing are separate. You need a TS/RDS Client Access License for access to the terminal server, regardless of what is running on it. Separately, you need an Office license to access Office, a Visio license to access Visio, a Project license to access Project, etc. (Visio and Project are licensed the same way as Office). PaulPaul DeGroot Principal Consultant Pica Communications "Solving the Microsoft Licensing Puzzle"