OEM Licenses on Desktop - Word on Remote Desktop on Terminal Serve

[Guest]

Need an answer for this scenario:

50 Remote Desktop users on a 2003 Terminal Server with 50 OEM Word Licenses
(97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 versions) on local desktops. An application on the
Remote Desktop requires Word and ONLY 5 users at any given time max would use
Word remotely. However, all of these 50 users will use Word at different
times.

The app has to be run off the server. The documents cannot be mapped on the
app server drive to use the local legal OEM Word copy.

Which option applies:

Option 1: Install 1 paid Word single user license on the application server
and the OEM licenses allow legal use for the 50 users?

Option 2: Purchase 5 single user licenses on the app server for the maximum
number of users to use Word at any given time

Option 3: OEM licenses do not authorize users to access Word on the app
server and each user has to have a license. Purchase 50 Word licenses.

Does anyone know which option is required? I believe that if these were MS
Word standard licenses . . . option 1 would apply but not sure about OEM
licenses.

Also, if Option 1 or 2 is legal . . . would the level of Word installed on
the server have to be Word 97 (the lowest legal level) or could Word 2003
legally be installed?

 

[Doug Robbins]

Hi Betty,

While you might get an answer here, it might be worth your while taking a
look at http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/default.mspx

and see if you can pick up any leads there or from the pages that are
referenced there.

The only comment that I would make is that I don't thing that there is any
difference in this respect between OEM licences and a normal retail licence.

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP