if you have a computer which is shared by two persons on a part-time work basis, since only one person can use theĭevice at any one time, only a single Office license is needed for that device.įor your scenario of Office-via-RDS, assign an Office license to each of the devices, no license is needed for the RDS itself.Īll user of the RDS sessions can use the Office-via-RDS *as long as the actual end-user device is already licensed for Office*. Per-device, also means that any number of persons can use that device with Office, only a single license is required for that device, so e.g. This means, that the device with keyboard/screen must be assigned a license, and, that entitles that device to use Office in any method upon that device. it's not a subscription agreement), the Office products under VL are per-device, which is defined as the device with the keyboard/screen where the person Licensing can be very tricky, and you really won't get a formal/legal response here, you need to contact your MSFT reseller/advisor or MSFT directly, to get the proper advice.Īssuming you are using Volume License, and are using the per-device/perpetual licensing agreement (i.e. Or do I need to have 5 x office 2016 standard licenses for the pcs and 5 x office 2016 standard licenses for the terminal server? Although Office 2019 was just released this past September, Microsoft is urging you to replace it and your older versions of Office with Office 365. remote desktop server (remote desktop session host)Īre the 5 pcs with office 2016 standard licensed for office 2016 standard on the terminal server?