![]() Instead of the ridiculous unlikely option, Mirazon usually recommends this option: Purchase a Windows Virtual Desktop Access (VDA) subscription license for your endpoint device. Microsoft really needs to re-think this option because it’s just not practical. ![]() And if they later ask if they can purchase SA for their Windows PCs, Microsoft will say no because they are past the 90-day mark and the window has closed (no pun intended). So when the average business decides to switch to a virtual desktop solution, they do not have their Windows licenses covered with SA. That’s way too much work! And secondly, most businesses expect to retire that PC within a few years anyway so what’s the point of covering it with SA? “When it becomes obsolete, we’ll just replace it.” In order to do that, you have to purchase the PC from the hardware manufacturer with an OEM license of Windows, and then within 90 days you must purchase Software Assurance for that OEM license through one of the volume licensing programs (such as Open License or Open Value). The reason it’s ludicrous … I mean, less frequently used … is because most small and medium businesses do not purchase Software Assurance for their Windows PCs. Here it is: If you cover your Windows license with Software Assurance, then Microsoft grants you the right to access a virtual desktop from that device. The first option is ridiculous … I mean, uncommon … not because it doesn’t make sense, but because it is not practical. Microsoft has made this crystal clear in a Volume Licensing Brief devoted to this issue: “OEM licenses do not permit remote access to a Windows virtual machine running in a data center.” Instead, you have two options. Wrong!! Even if you are using a local machine with the same version of Windows that is running on the virtual machine, you still need something extra to cover that virtual machine. So I can just use those OEM licenses to cover the virtual machines. The obvious (but wrong) answer is this: “I don’t need Windows licenses for the virtual desktops because the local desktops already have Windows licenses. So you use Microsoft Windows Server, Citrix XenDesktop or VMware Horizon, you deploy the virtual desktops, and you’re done, right?īut wait a minute … How do you license those virtual desktops for Windows? Using virtual desktops means less maintenance, better security, more standardization across your organization, and more control over what those crazy end users are doing. Let’s say you decide to simplify your IT environment by making your employees log into virtual desktops running in a datacenter instead of working directly off their local machines. Case in point … How do you license virtual desktops for Windows? The Scenario The same sort of thing can happen to adults when it comes to Microsoft licensing: what you think should work doesn’t actually work. Try as he might, pushing never gets the chair up onto the carpet. Things go great for a while, but when it reaches the edge of the carpet, the chair abruptly stops. My two-year-old son likes to push chairs across our tile floor. Sometimes the most obvious way to do something is not how you actually get it done.
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