Query for exact item name for CAL required

Question

Hi,
We are e-businessoft, reseller for Microsoft softwares.
One of the customer has recently purchased windows server and now wants to purchase some user CALs. Few users will do mstsc of WinServer from within the
premises and few customers will do the mstsc from remote location, a different city. Remote user will login via internet connection into the LAN and then do mstsc
of WinServer.
Please tell me exactly what products has to be purchased to facilitate this. I have suggested the below:
1. WinSvrCAL 2012 SNGL OLP NL UsrCAL
2. WinRmtDsktpSrvcsCAL 2012 SNGL OLP NL UsrCAL
If this is correct, then please guide on how exactly this works? For example, The user doing mstsc from within premises requires item 1 only and users doing mstsc
from different city requires item 2 only, or both 1 and 2 is required in both case.
The terminal server services gives a countdown of 120 days from date of installation and ultimately expires and all connections thru mstsc stops. And then the
server is reinstalled. So one major concern is whether purchase of these CALs will stop this inconvinience for ever?
Please reply asap. CAL requirement is very urgent but can not proceed unless this clarity comes from you.

Answer 1

Hi,
Resellers should contact MSFT Partner Support for assistance.
In general, the scenario you describe requires both Windows Server CAL and also RDS CAL for each user/device.
This is because an RDS/TS CAL is required for correctly licensed use of RDS/TS, and in addition, because RDS/TS is used to gain access to Windows Server services/features, a Windows Server CAL is also required.
(there are different scenarios which may apply, depending upon the edition of Windows Server being used, and also, it may be less expensive, depending on the size/scale of the scenario, to instead consider CAL Suite options)
(also, note that if the Windows Server is offering MS Office, that requires Office licensing to be addressed. Also consider if the RDS/TS will allow the users/devices to consume MS Exchange or MS SharePoint or MS SQL, additional CALs for those products may
be required)
Don
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