To deploy Office 365 ProPlus by using RDS, you need to use shared computer activation. Organizations can also use Remote Desktop Services with Hyper-V to deploy virtual desktops to users. Users log on remotely to this centralized server to run Office. The permission you need is called “Desktop Virtualization.” Here is Microsoft’s description of that Office 365 feature in a TechNet post:Ĭustomers can use Remote Desktop Services (RDS), a role in Windows Server, to provide a centralized server on which they can install Office. Some of the Office 365 plans include the right to access Office on a terminal server, but some of them don’t. (Why can’t licensing ever be simple?!) The answer will depend on what subscription plan you signed up for. Unfortunately there is not a simple “yes” or “no” answer to that question. So how does that work when your user needs to access a remote desktop session and fire up Office on the server? Do you still need to purchase a volume license of Office to cover that device? I stressed that you need to license the device, not the user.īut what about Office 365? In Office 365, you purchase a subscription for each user, not each device. In that post, I covered the basics and recommended you purchase a volume license of Office for the endpoint devices that are accessing the remote desktop session on a terminal server. Last month I wrote a post on licensing Office for a Remote Desktop Environment.
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