Office Licensing & EULA questions

[JLongacre]

I do work for a business with 25 WinXP PCs and 2 Win2K3 Servers. They
currently have 5 Office2k licenses and 5 Office XP licenses and will need
enough for each system.

IIRC, Office97 allowed you to install multiple copies on client PCs to be
run from the server as long as you limited access (by setting a max amount of
concurrent users to the share) to the amount of licenses you had purchased.
Does Office2k or OfficeXP support this or will I need a seperate copy for
every single PC?

I've read that Office2k ($200 per copy) will allow you to do an
administrative install to the server but OfficeXP will not unless you buy the
Enterprise edition ($400 or $500 per copy). Since we'd like to standardize
everything will the OfficeXP licenses apply to Office2k?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi J.,

MS Office doesn't support concurrent use licensing.

Only Volume (Enterprise) license keys will enable
you to create an Admin installation point but the
licensing is still a per seat(device) basis.

If you have a volume license agreement
( http://microsoft.com/licensing )
there are provisions for downgrading the version you
use under the license. Check the link there for
'Product Use Rights' as a starting point

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I do work for a business with 25 WinXP PCs and 2 Win2K3 Servers. They
currently have 5 Office2k licenses and 5 Office XP licenses and will need
enough for each system.

IIRC, Office97 allowed you to install multiple copies on client PCs to be
run from the server as long as you limited access (by setting a max amount of
concurrent users to the share) to the amount of licenses you had purchased.
Does Office2k or OfficeXP support this or will I need a seperate copy for
every single PC?

I've read that Office2k ($200 per copy) will allow you to do an
administrative install to the server but OfficeXP will not unless you buy the
Enterprise edition ($400 or $500 per copy). Since we'd like to standardize
everything will the OfficeXP licenses apply to Office2k?>>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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