Installing Office on Terminal Server

Hi All

I've spent various time over the last couple of weeks searching the Microsoft/internet forum's for understanding and answers to installing Office on our Terminal Server.  My understanding has increased by so has the pain in my head!  Can someone please help?  Note: our "IT guy" has recently retired and I've been tasked with looking at this.  I'm not an IT pro but i do have some understanding.

We have a Terminal Server 2003.  Office 2003 is currently installed on this server, which i have been told should be active via a volume licence.  However, I've been told this was setup by the provider of the server (dell) at the time the server was installed.

We would like to upgrade Office on the Terminal Server.  I understand from browsing the internet that Office 2013/Office 365 is supported/compatible?  So naturally we're looking at Office 2010 instead.

I understand that i will need Office 2010 Pro Plus edition.  I also understand that i need a volume licence or some sort of compatible Terminal Server product key.  I presume just ordering a Office 2010 Pro Plus edition from somewhere online will be OK?  But in terms of getting hold of a volume licence/product key i'm having trouble finding where on the Microsoft Website i can get/buy this?  Can we only get these through registered Microsoft partners?

Also, if we have a Volume Licence in place with our current Office 2003 version, is this licence in any way transferrable to Office 2010?  i.e. we run the Office 2010 Pro Plus install and use the existing product key from Office 2003?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Matt

May 1st, 2014 6:35am

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