Office 2013 Prof Plus -Licensing on Citrix

Hi Experts,
I am looking forward to deploy Office 2013 PP, Project and Visio though Citrix XenApp 7.5. The servers are windows 2012 R2.
I am looking forwards to understand the latest licnesing model for Citrix/Remote desktop/Terminal server for Office 2013 PP.
How does volume licnesing work for Citrix/Terminal servers.
There are two requirements .
1. User accessing from office : In office users will have Windows 7 desktops , with office 2013 PP installed on it. Licensed with KMS. Some office users will be accessing OFFICE 2013 PP Apps published through Citrix xenapp 7.5. say for example
the number of such users is 100. As user is already licensed (office on windows 7), do we need a seperate license if these 100 users access the xenapp published version of office? Office 2013 pp will be published on 4 xenapp servers.
2. Users accessing from Home: When those 100 users are at home, user will login to vpn, open the browser and access office pp apps throught citrix. The office will run on the 4 xenapp servers in datacenter. In this case the
client machine is user's own home desktop. Does a user licenses for office makes us complaint with licensing in this case.
Please could you clarify my licensing doubts for above 2 scenarios.
Regards,
Abhishek

Hi,
To get the answer to the licensing questions, since it may be related to your local policy, I suggest you ask the local Volume Licensing Service Center:
https://www.microsoft.com/Licensing/servicecenter/Help/Contact.aspx
Select the country or area and you will get the contact information.
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I can't find any exact answers on this but I'm wondering if I can run Office 2013 Pro Plus instead of office 365 Pro Plus click to run. The problem is click to run causes all kinds of problems with 3rd party software. It's so random too and doesn't happen
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Activating Microsoft Office 2013 Pro Plus? Volume licensing needed?

Hello,
I have unique scenario in my company where we need to install office 2013 pro plus on 10 hard drives. Each hard drive has its own windows 7 operating system. Due to security reasons, the setup consists of one computer tower (with no primary hard drive) that
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A volume licensing aggreement is the best plan for your case, I think.
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Office 2013 Professional plus installation on a Windows 7 PC with Office Enterprise 2007 previously installed

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After several Reboots and run as Administrator and frustrations I came to you.
Could you help me please?
Thanks in advance
For additional information, I of course share them with you.

Hi,
The description of error 1653 is that you could not perform a multiple-package transaction because rollback has been disabled. Multiple-Package Installations cannot run if rollback is disabled. Available beginning with Windows Installer version 4.5.
According to error code 1653, I find a similar question about it. I address it here, you can follow Micrey’s suggestion to check if it works.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/f6501a3d-5c98-467b-9f48-3c6d20a454df/microsoft-office-professional-2013-encountered-an-error-during-setup?forum=officesetupdeploy
“The issue when you hit a "1653" is that Windows Installer "DisableRollback" is set. Office 2013 requires that "rollback" be enabled. If you are getting a "1653" error in your logs as Ken did then the solution is to delete the "DisableRollback" (or set to
'0') at the following registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer”
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I have a problem that has been well documented for Office 2010.
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