Hello all,

I am planning to use a RDS environment built on AWS with Office 2013 pro plus deployed in it. Office 2013 pro plus would be licensed with a Volume License from a SPLA.

I would like to know if I can subscribe to Office 365 business essentials and then use this Office 365 account from the RDS environment and especially by interconnecting Office 2013 pro plus to it. Would that be MS compliant?

Thank you very much for your help.

Best Regards.

Hi,

You cannot use Office 365 Business Essentials license to connect to Office 365 ProPlus via a Remote Desktop Connection. This is because Office 365 ProPlus does not come with Office 365 Business Essentials.

To use Office 2013 via RDS connection, each user should be assigned with a license for Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 ProPlus will then contact the Office Licensing Service on the Internet to obtain a licensing token for the user who uses Office 365 ProPlus on the computer and then activate Office 365 ProPlus.

Regards,

Ethan Hua
TechNet Community Support