[THIN] Re: M$ Apps Licensing - latest consensus?

There is a software vendor in the Citrix space who can sell you an agent to control your licenses and “enforce” licenses per device.

 

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jez
Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2008 7:42 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: M$ Apps Licensing - latest consensus?

 

Well it depends on wether you have per user or per device licensing on that particular application, and it depends on wether those licenses are concurrent.

As far as MS office products go, they tend to be licensed per user -> you can install a copy on a TS, a laptop and a home PC, and they are all covered by 1 user license. You need that license for each user => it is pointless restricting the app to a limited number of devices. Also, if just 1 user on a TS used all of MS Office Professional and all the others only use the Word componemt, all users need to be licensed for MS Office Pro - you can't have the others just running on a Word license.

You should find that if you ask the question consistently, you will get a consistent answer from MS, but there are many options, and there can be a certain art to how you ask the question in the first place.

> do I really need a license for every device that can connect to the farm
Depends on the app, but it should be per user, not per device.

> can I buy five licenses and restrict the published app to 5 concurrent connections?
No.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Steve Snyder <kwajalein@gmail.com> wrote:

I know this has been asked a thousand times and microsoft gives a thousand different answers, but I thought I'd check and see if anyone has ever received anything definitive from them regarding licensing their apps on a citrix farm; do I really need a license for every device that can connect to the farm, or can I buy five licenses and restrict the published app to 5 concurrent connections?

thanks

 

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