Finally you can now license your users so the user can use or access Windows Enterprise across all their devices. This makes it a lot easier by counting the number of users instead of counting all their various devices. So no need to track every device and license anymore. This simplifies Windows licensing and management. Point 2 mentions: You may install one copy of the software on the Licensed Device or within a local virtual hardware system on the Licensed Device.
Not every document from Microsoft is updated yet on the Software Assurance per User basis, I will check again on the release of availability on December 1st Windows Software Assurance provides the greatest flexibility for how you use Windows. It includes access to new versions as they become available, flexible use rights, and a set of tools, technologies, and training to help you get the most from your Windows investment.
Windows Software Assurance is available on a per device or per user basis. Software Assurance for Windows is the path to enabling flexible work styles by providing access to Windows instances in a variety of ways across devices.
When you license the primary user of a primary device that is already covered with Windows Software Assurance, the Windows Software Assurance per User Add-on grants the licensed user with all of the benefits of Windows Software Assurance per User. So which edition should you choose? See the Flowchart diagram for you answer. This really confuses me and I wondered if there is a valid way to work around this issue.
If it is a shared device no roaming use rights apply. VDA is based on devices not on users or it must be that those 50 users never work on a device at work, but thats not the case in scenario A. So the 50 users are covered under the roaming use rights, because they work at the office on a Thin client and occasionally work at home.
You will need to get VDA licenses. Hope this clarifies it a bit. I can see the advantages in topics like management, performance and security, but how do I sell the costs to customers? What about Office in this VDI scenario? This would kill every VDI project before it starts….. Cleared up some questions but I have others.
Our setup is we have 15 users who would use View. About 10 of those users would connect using multiple ways iPad, Laptop, home personal PC. Altogether only 5 users would connect at the same time.
Nice post; very thorough and well-designed. What is my best option as far as licensing Win7 for my VMs? Makes the ROI on virtualized desktops very difficult to justify. If you wanna know more about it I would like to suggest to read the following article:.
For example if you have a project that requires 50 virtual machines with Windows 8 running under vmware. You access them via Zero clients.
You need Windows 8 Enterprise license to handle the virtual machines plus 50 VDA licenses to handle the access via Zero Clients, is that correct? Also having a Windows 8 Enterprise license requires a Windows Server to handle this? Hello Angel, sorry for the delay but I overlooked your comment.
Answer: When using zero clients you will need VDA licenses, these are rent licenses per month and they include the Windows 7 Enterprise license. Hope this helps. Regards Edwin. You must be logged in to post a comment. Versions of Windows 7 Both Software Assurance which includes virtual desktop access and roaming use rights and Windows VDA which enables virtual desktop access for non-Software Assurance and non-organization access devices are available through all major Microsoft Volume Licensing programs including the Enterprise Agreement, Select Plus, and Open Value program.
Scenario A Thin Clients and sporadic home use Your company has Thin Clients for users from whom 50 work regularly at home. What is needed? You will need VDA licenses because of the thin clients used to access the View environment. Use this forum to discuss miscellaneous issues that cannot be covered in any other Windows 7 forum. Sign in to vote. I am the Network Admin for a public library and am in the process of building new desktops for our patrons to use. This is done at about 36 stations throughout the Library.
I am looking to use the same setup for the Win 7 desktops, but I am unclear how to go about the Win 7 Pro and Office Pro Plus licensing? I initially thought KMS was the way to go. The issue is that that these desktops are wiped clean and rebuilt multiple times per day. Every time a patron logs off the desktop image they are using is erased and rebuilt from the clean base image. That way the next patron using the station has a fresh desktop to use.
I am not sure if this will play well with the KMS environment? Do I need VDA keys possibly? I am just not sure what license to install on the base image that I roll out?
I have tried talking to Volume Licensing sales and support and no one can give me an answer.
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