RDS licensing
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@brianlittlejohn Sorry that question was rhetorical.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@brianlittlejohn Sorry that question was rhetorical.
haha... rhetorical doesn't come across well in a forum
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So even if you have at most 20 people that would use the system at any given time, but 100 employees who need it throughout the day, you need to purchase 100 CAL's.
That's insane, it makes no sense at all...
I get buy extra to cover any overlap, but to have to buy 5 times the amount...
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Yep... that sucks.
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@DustinB3403 said:
That's insane, it makes no sense at all...
Why? No different than nearly anything else that you license. That's how email works, Windows Server CALs, Office 2013... just about anything.
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@DustinB3403 said:
So even if you have at most 20 people that would use the system at any given time, but 100 employees who need it throughout the day, you need to purchase 100 CAL's.
If at most 20 people need to use it, then why not use device licensing instead of user licensing?
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@DustinB3403 said:
So even if you have at most 20 people that would use the system at any given time, but 100 employees who need it throughout the day, you need to purchase 100 CAL's.
That's insane, it makes no sense at all...
I get buy extra to cover any overlap, but to have to buy 5 times the amount...
Yep, if you are going the user licensing route you would need 100 licenses. If they all use the same devices just license the devices.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
That's insane, it makes no sense at all...
Why? No different than nearly anything else that you license. That's how email works, Windows Server CALs, Office 2013... just about anything.
Office actually doesn't work this way. Not FPP or VL (O365 does). Office is licensed per device, except in the case of RDS, then it's either device or user, like the RDS licenses. At least that's my understanding.
If I have 50 users, but 75 computers and I want Office on all PCs, I need 75 licenses of FPP or VL.
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@Dashrender said:
If I have 50 users, but 75 computers and I want Office on all PCs, I need 75 licenses of FPP or VL.
Yes, Office I guess comes in all kinds of license models. With O365 it is by user with at least five devices for each user.
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