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

Hi Steve,

 

There is only one scenario where you don't need an M$ license for every device that can connect to a terminal server.

 

Appsense application manager and Quest/Provision Networks Block-IT let you restrict applications to nominated end devices. So you can nominate 5 client machines and only they can run Office professional (MS Access) or Project or whatever. I think RES Powerfuse might have a simialr capability but I'm not sure.

 

Block-it is about the least expensive of the options. And if you get the VAS Power Tools bundle you get things like a true UPD printing solution, user profile management and user environment management thrown in for good measure :-)

 

regards,

 

Rick

 

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Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Steve Snyder
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 2:34 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] M$ Apps Licensing - latest consensus?

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