RE: Licensing Clarification - Office 2003 Standard Ed.

[Guest ajimmo]

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)?