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Office License question for AX 2012 Office Add in a RDS

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Posted on by Jacqueline Olson 641

Users are remote so will need to connect to AX via RDS.  They would like to be able to use the AX Office add-in features. 

Users currently have Office license that came with the purchase of their machines (I believe also known as OEM license).  So according to this site http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/briefs/winserv2012-rds.aspx volume licensing is required if user need to use Office on the RDS server or the network.

Could you please confirm Office volume licensing is required by the customer in order to be able to use AX Office add in feature when using AX via RDS? So, even if you have the option "remote Desktop session exports to: Client Excel", the customer would still need to purchase Office Volume licensing to be able to use all the AX Office add in features (example using document service to upload data to AX via Excel)?

Thanks,

Jackie

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    I’m not knowledgeable about the licensing space. I can imagine people would steer clear of this question because licensing is something that only a few R&D people deal with... and this is like a combination of AX licensing plus Office licensing :)

     

    I wouldn’t have thought that Office volume licensing would be needed to run those copies of Office on the local computers. And you are getting Office to receive a file over the RDS channel rather than running Office over that RDS channel. I would have thought that the machine Office licenses would be enough.

     

    But I’m not an expert on licensing… :)

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    manikumar 1,623 on at

    On server office volume license is mandatory, in client system or end user can use any valid license of office. 

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