Licensing from DaaS
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I'm still a bit lost!!!
Our customer (lets call them ClientA) is working with a service provider (lets call them CompanyB).
Company B provides the DaaS environment for Client A of which is hosted on a dedicated server for them.Does ClientA have to buy/provide these VDI licenses themselves or should Company B provide them? I am being told by Company B that cant provide and we'd need to get them through Software Assurance or some kind of Enterprise licensing....
I'm the middle ground and trying to source the licensing or assist where I can and point in the right direction but feel like im going round in circles...Can anyone clarify pls?
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This link helps explain it:
https://www.leostream.com/blog/navigating-microsoft-licensing-for-daas
but the question remains: If we want to use Windows 7 or 10, can I just by X amount of Windows licenses to match the number of virtual desktops?
Or is it better to use the Server desktop and then buy RDS Cals for each user!
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@Joel said in Licensing from DaaS:
Does ClientA have to buy/provide these VDI licenses themselves or should Company B provide them? I am being told by Company B that cant provide and we'd need to get them through Software Assurance or some kind of Enterprise licensing....
Correct. The company that USES the licenses, that is the customer - the one with people sitting down to do work on the VDI instances - is the only one able to purchase licenses for those instances. SA and Enterprise licensing is the only path to this.
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@Joel said in Licensing from DaaS:
This link helps explain it:
https://www.leostream.com/blog/navigating-microsoft-licensing-for-daas
but the question remains: If we want to use Windows 7 or 10, can I just by X amount of Windows licenses to match the number of virtual desktops?
Or is it better to use the Server desktop and then buy RDS Cals for each user!
Depends on how you want to make people license things and if the RDS experience will meet the needs.
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So if i'm acting on behalf of ClientA, where/who can I buy those licenses from?
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@Joel said in Licensing from DaaS:
So if i'm acting on behalf of ClientA, where/who can I buy those licenses from?
Always the client for VDI, VL and Enteprise.
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Okay, let me rephrase...If i was an employee of the client and it was my job to buy the licenses, where can i get VL or Enterprise licenses from? Can I call Microsoft direct or can I buy from a partner or vendor distributor?
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@Joel said in Licensing from DaaS:
Okay, let me rephrase...If i was an employee of the client and it was my job to buy the licenses, where can i get VL or Enterprise licenses from? Can I call Microsoft direct or can I buy from a partner or vendor distributor?
OH, sorry. You buy from whatever Microsoft vendor you want. Any MS reseller - that's all that they sell as MS doesn't have physical products (not real ones, anyway.) CDW, your local MS partner, whatever.
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@scottalanmiller said in Licensing from DaaS:
@Joel said in Licensing from DaaS:
Okay, let me rephrase...If i was an employee of the client and it was my job to buy the licenses, where can i get VL or Enterprise licenses from? Can I call Microsoft direct or can I buy from a partner or vendor distributor?
OH, sorry. You buy from whatever Microsoft vendor you want. Any MS reseller - that's all that they sell as MS doesn't have physical products (not real ones, anyway.) CDW, your local MS partner, whatever.
I'd argue with that... They sell Xbox.
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@Dashrender said in Licensing from DaaS:
@scottalanmiller said in Licensing from DaaS:
@Joel said in Licensing from DaaS:
Okay, let me rephrase...If i was an employee of the client and it was my job to buy the licenses, where can i get VL or Enterprise licenses from? Can I call Microsoft direct or can I buy from a partner or vendor distributor?
OH, sorry. You buy from whatever Microsoft vendor you want. Any MS reseller - that's all that they sell as MS doesn't have physical products (not real ones, anyway.) CDW, your local MS partner, whatever.
I'd argue with that... They sell Xbox.
Resellers don't have access to that. It's a different channel.
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I miss the ol' LicenseOnLine.com days.
