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ajimmo
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RE: Licensing Clarification - Office 2003 Standard Ed.
I too need clarification on licensing. I have fried my Toshiba latop and I
am 3000 miles from home and nowhere near a servcie center in a rather rural
area for a big city. I may have to buy a new laptop. How can I tell if my
Office 2003-standard Edition(product Key on hand) has an unexpired liciense
left on it so I don't have to buy new software or at the very lest new Excel?
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Thanks, Ajimmo
"E. James" wrote:
> I hope you can concisely clarify per user mode for me. I have read many
> postings regarding the licensing issues,
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers/terminal/terminal_faq.mspx,
> KBs 823313 & 822134 and the White Paper "Terminal Service Licensing" listed
> on
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/terminalservices/default.mspx.
> I still can not find a clear statement to this situation, and by the sheer
> volume of questions, I do not feel that I am alone in the ambiguity of the
> documentation.
>
> Say I have X thin clients and each thin client is assigned a single user
> account. Therefore, (A) # thin clients = # user accounts. The situation is
> that there will never be a period when all thin clients will be
> simultaneously connected, thus (B) # of connected clients < # user accounts.
>
> From the Introduction section of the White Paper: "This greatly simplifies
> the task of license management for the system administrator, while minimizing
> under- or over-purchasing of licenses for an organization."
>
> However, further into the White Paper are the following two statements:
> "License tokens are assigned to each user that connects to a particular
> terminal server" (pg. 10) & "While it is possible to install TS Per User CAL
> tokens on a license server, there is currently no method of assigning a TS
> Per User CAL token to a particular user account." (pg. 11)
>
> Given this, how many licenses am I requierd to purchase, knowing the case of
> (B)?
I too need clarification on licensing. I have fried my Toshiba latop and I
am 3000 miles from home and nowhere near a servcie center in a rather rural
area for a big city. I may have to buy a new laptop. How can I tell if my
Office 2003-standard Edition(product Key on hand) has an unexpired liciense
left on it so I don't have to buy new software or at the very lest new Excel?
--
Thanks, Ajimmo
"E. James" wrote:
> I hope you can concisely clarify per user mode for me. I have read many
> postings regarding the licensing issues,
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers/terminal/terminal_faq.mspx,
> KBs 823313 & 822134 and the White Paper "Terminal Service Licensing" listed
> on
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/terminalservices/default.mspx.
> I still can not find a clear statement to this situation, and by the sheer
> volume of questions, I do not feel that I am alone in the ambiguity of the
> documentation.
>
> Say I have X thin clients and each thin client is assigned a single user
> account. Therefore, (A) # thin clients = # user accounts. The situation is
> that there will never be a period when all thin clients will be
> simultaneously connected, thus (B) # of connected clients < # user accounts.
>
> From the Introduction section of the White Paper: "This greatly simplifies
> the task of license management for the system administrator, while minimizing
> under- or over-purchasing of licenses for an organization."
>
> However, further into the White Paper are the following two statements:
> "License tokens are assigned to each user that connects to a particular
> terminal server" (pg. 10) & "While it is possible to install TS Per User CAL
> tokens on a license server, there is currently no method of assigning a TS
> Per User CAL token to a particular user account." (pg. 11)
>
> Given this, how many licenses am I requierd to purchase, knowing the case of
> (B)?
