MS Office apps from WinTerm?

[J Porter]

Wyse tells me I can run MS Office applications from a TS using a WinTerm
terminal with an RDP client. If this is true, then where does the MS Office
license reside???

It's my understanding that every PC that runs an MS Office app from TS must
have MS Office installed and consequently a license for MS Office (in
addition to other required licenses). Is this correct?

How much of an addtional load does it put on the TS to run MS Office from
remote clients?

This sounds like an expensive proposition. Is it practical to do for 20
clients?

TIA..
~Joe
www.EastARK.com

 

[Matthew Harris [MVP]]

The Office software resides on the terminal server, and
all you need to do is keep up on licenses.

Here's a good link about supporting Office over TS:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/howtobuy/pricin
g/licensoffice.asp

Basically to sum it up...if you have 50 users who all use
Office (either at the same time or not at the same time)
then you need to buy 50 licenses. If you have 50 users,
but only 25 (at most) will ever use Office at the same
time, then you need 50 licenses.

The nice thing about this style of implementation is that
you only need to buy some copy of the software and just
keep up on the licenses. Liceses are relatively cheap
when bought in bulk or from an online seller like cdw.com
or insight.com. I have this same exact implementation
working for about 100 or so people, so yeah, I'm
definitely sure it is worth it.

-M