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How to best limit Microsoft Office licensing with a terminal server?

I am looking to setup a terminal server with Microsoft Office 2003 and some other software how ever i will have more dumb terminals than licensing.  How do i limit the number of users or terminals to the number of MS Office licensing i own?

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So Bottom Line!!!! If i have MS Office 2003 on the Terminal Server and have 20 Thin clients on it i need 20 MS Office Licenses....  There is no way to limit olny 10 Thin clients to access MS Office.
have a look on below article it might help you.

www.msterminalservices.org/software/Application-servers/

As I mentioned in my post you need just one MS Office 2003 license so you don't have to restrict the user access because of Office licensing.

If you have 1 (one) MS Office license it gives you the right to install it on one machine – in your case this machine is your server.
If you are going to access resources on that server you need Windows 2000/2003 server CALs depending on the OS.
If you are going to access the server through Terminal Services running in application mode you need Terminal Services CALs. Again note that you don’t have to purchase them immediately. Your clients will get temporary 3 months CALs. If the server OS is Windows 2000 you don’t have to purchase Terminal Services CALs for the XP and Win2k Pro clients.

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I'm having a very hard time getting a method for making sure we have enough Office licenses for our TS usage. The last I have read from MS is that office is a device based license and I'm getting input from various licensing sources saying that equals out to needing an office license for every device that connects to the server to run office. In this case we have a large (600 or so) salesforce that often connect in from non-company assets so in theory they could be using multiple non-company machines to connect in on every sales trip. We could potentially be looking at thousands of devices used to connect to our TS and fire up office on just one occassion.

Would you have any updated insight that may be helpful on this?!?!?!?!