I’m really getting tired of having to chase around the world for licensing answers. Microsoft is NO help… so let’s see what you got!
I’ve got about 350 PCs of various Windows versions, and most have Office installed. About a year ago, we mergedwith another company, and they have real licensing issues (passed around one legal copy of NT and Office 2000 for about 50 PCs!)… Here comes the tricky part:
For speed’s sake, we installed Citrix ICA Client software on their PCs until we could physically get to the branchs to do domain conversions. We purchased 50 CAL licenses for Office 2000, and all 50 PCs could use Office over the Citrix/NT Terminal Services network.
Now the PCs have been converted. Many are notebooks, so we’d like to have Office locally installed on them. My NT administrator, who has been gone from our company for 6 months now, told my boss that the CAL licenses will legally cover local installs on the PCs, as long as that PC doesn’t try to run Office through aCitrix session.
Many searches later, we still have no information as to exactly what a CAL license covers. Microsoft is telling our distributor to have us read the EULA, but there is NO PLACE on the net where we can find that! I want concrete proof that we are covered in this area.
The question, then, is: Does an Office CAL on NT Server/TS cover an individual’s PC-installed version of Office? Is the CAL available for the USER or the PC/Thin Client?
I’m sure I’m not the only person scratching a head on how MS runs this junk… any help would be appreciated.