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Licences required for a small office set up with server 2019

Dear folks,

i am trying to buy a new server for our office with around 20 users. We are an accounting firm so it would be a data server and no too intense applications or GPUs etc.

I am planning to run it on windows 2019 with remote desktop access enabled for remote users or working from home. However trying to talk to sellers have been total nightmare.

Can you please help me understand which licences we will need to buy. I understand that we will have to buy Server 2019 and user CALs. Do we also need to buy RDS user licences per user and virtualization server licence ? Would greatly appreciate some clarity on this.

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what's the different between "remote access to windows server" and RDS

Yes, one and the same thing

Ideally we would like to people to work on their local machines and being able to access data on server from anywhere such as working from home. The individual programs will be installed on local machines and server will hold the data for everyone to access.

then maybe you only need a vpn and some file sharing set up.



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Do we also need to buy RDS user licences per user

If you plan to add the RDS role for more than two concurrent connections then yes.
- User CALs allow a single user remote access to Windows Server from an unlimited number of devices
- Device CALs allow an unlimited number of users to remote access Windows Server from a single device

and virtualization server licence ?

See this thread for a discussion about this.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/70011/rds-windows-10-vdi-licensing.html

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Thanks for the reply and sorry for a dumb question but what's the different between "remote access to windows server" and RDS ? i thought they were the same thing.

Ideally we would like to people to work on their local machines and being able to access data on server from anywhere such as working from home. The individual programs will be installed on local machines and server will hold the data for everyone to access.

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