RDS Cals & Office 365 - Remote Desktop Services
My customer allows users to connect to their server via Remote Desktop Connections and interrogate Access databases on the server. All that was working fine on their older Server 2003, Terminal Services & Office 2003. Since migrating to Server 2008 R2 and Office 365 we were still OK until we installed Remote Desktop Services. Now it gives us the following error
Will installing RDS CALs fix the problem or do we need another version of Office?
This seems to indicate that RDS CALs are attached to Office.
This copy of Office 2013 cannot be used on a computer running Terminal Services. To use Office on a computer running Terminal Services , you must use a Volume license edition of Office.
Will installing RDS CALs fix the problem or do we need another version of Office?
This seems to indicate that RDS CALs are attached to Office.
You will need RDS CAL’s for each user, so my advice would be to attach the 1 copy of Office Pro Plus 2013 to your order for the RDS CAL’s and Office 365.
SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
I don't think you can for a single subscription. And if you truly only have one user (hence only one subscription) why do you need RDS at all? RDS us inherently for multi -user environments.
ASKER
We have multiple users logging in from local Corporate office & branch offices. I was hoping for one subscription that could cover multiple users. Note this worked fine with Office 365 until we added RDS but it was limited to 2 concurrent users.
ASKER
This also worked on the old server using TS & OFC 2003
That is illegal to use one subscription for multiple users and would get caught by MS activation very quickly. The subscription agreement is very clear about a subscription being for one user only.
ASKER
Note that it might be better if we just shared these databases out on the web rather than letting folks connect to the server to run Access.
ASKER
Isn't there a volume license?
Office 2003 was never sold as a subscription like 365 is, so that's a bit of apples and oranges. But if you only bought one copy of office 2003 and had many users accessing it via TS, that was illegal as well, even if it technically worked.
There are volume licenses for office 2013 and 365, but you still need to buy multiple copies. Volume licenses do NOT get you out the licensing/subscription agreement. They just give you better pricing.
ASKER
I was charged with moving the existing application from one server to another. Chatting with Microsoft now for a Partner to straighten this out.
ASKER
I am just trying to simplify this task. Would sharing the database on the web be a better solution?
ASKER
FYI, I didn't set up the original server with Office 2003 but that's what the customer had. I am trying to get this setup properly.
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
ASKER
It looks like the best solution is to switch the 8 users that use the Access database to Ofc 365 Mid size business and share out the databases on SharePoint.
The proper licensing for 8 users - Windows, RDS & Office would cost around $5,000.
The proper licensing for 8 users - Windows, RDS & Office would cost around $5,000.
ASKER
Thanks for the quick responses
ASKER