Hi,

For the terminal server, I know I need to buy one volume license copy of Office 2013 standard for it to install on the terminal server.

If I have 10 PCs in the office and 10 terminal server users, which of the following do I need?

1. 10 x Office 2013 Home & Business for both terminal server and PCs

2. 10 x Office 2013 Home & Business for PCs and 10 x Office 2013 Standard for terminal server

3. 10 x Office 2013 Home & Business for PCs and 9 x Office 2013 Home & Business for terminal server and 1 x Office 2013 Standard for terminal server (for install)

4. 10 x Office 2013 Standard for both terminal server and PCs

For Office 2013 Home & Business, and Office 2013 Standard, how many users am I entitled to per copy?

Also, if I go with Office 365 online yearly subscription, the online version allows each user to have Office 2013 installed on up to 5 PCs including the terminal server. Is this correct?

Thanks

• Edited by kungpow112 Friday, November 08, 2013 8:54 PM

Hi,

for assistance with licensing Office on RDS, please refer to the MS licensing website:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/briefs/remote-desktop-services.aspx

If you need further advice, you should contact MS or a reseller.

From memory, Retail editions of Office, and O365 editions, are blocked from installing upon an RDS host server, I think you need to use a Volume Licensing edition of Office for that.

Also, if you install Office upon an RDS/TS host, and never use the Office software at the server console (i.e. you only use the Office software via RDS/TS sessions), the server itself does not need to be licensed for Office.
This is because Office is a device-based license, and RDS/TS sessions require that the device where the user is sitting, be licensed. This only applies to Office editions which are device-based licenses.

Thanks for sharing

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