How to license Acrobat in a Terminal server farm?

How to handle the following situation, esp. license-wise:
There are like 10 Windows2008R2 servers that make a Remote Desktop Server farm.
There are more than 100 users RDPing to that farm.
And five of these users need the Acrobat Pro version (all others are happy with the Reader).
How to install deploy and LICENSE Acrobat Pro in this scenario?
Apparently, it needs to be installed on all farm members, while most users must be denied access and only the five privileged users must be able to use the program - no matter who of them is on which farm member ...
Confused,
elhagman

Hello, did you take a look at this document?
https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/reader/pdfs/wts_9.pdf

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