Microsoft has changed their licensing for Windows Vista for two scenarios that have been employed for some time by forward thinking organisations but have been ignored by Microsoft up till now.<\/p>\n
Brian Madden has looked<\/a> into these changes and analyses how they will impact MS customers.<\/p>\n This is where a desktop operating system is not installed on a client PC.\u00a0 Instead, it is streamed from a server(s) to clients as required, e.g. Ardence\u00a0 This allows administrators to manage a single desktop image and to deploy changes very rapidly.\u00a0 Strictly speaking, Brian says that you have required a license for the desktop and a license for the streamed image in order to comply with MS licensing.<\/p>\n The change that has been made to Vista licensing allows you to run this solution with a single desktop license for each client PC, as opposed to 2 per PC.<\/p>\n This solution is where clients access a server hosted virtual machine with a desktop installation via RDP, e.g. you could run Vista on VMware ESX and allow clients to RDP into their OS from a Wyse terminal.\u00a0 Again, the solution gives a user their own desktop.\u00a0 it has none of the complexity of server based computing (e.g. Citrix) and allows admins to update desktop images almost instantly.<\/p>\n Microsoft refers to this technology as VECD.\u00a0 Again, Vista is being covered so that only 1 license per client is required.<\/p>\n Vista Enterprise is the only edition being covered by this license amendment.\u00a0 This version of Vista is only available to Software Assurance customers.<\/p>\n Brian goes into more detail and I’d highly recommend that you check out his post and his site for more details on these technologies.<\/p>\n Credit: Brian Madden<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Microsoft has changed their licensing for Windows Vista for two scenarios that have been employed for some time by forward thinking organisations but have been ignored by Microsoft up till now. Brian Madden has looked into these changes and analyses how they will impact MS customers. OS Streaming This is where a desktop operating system … Continue reading “Microsoft Licensing Support for VDI and OS Streaming”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tOS Streaming<\/h6>\n
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