Forum Discussion
Christopher Anderson
Mar 28, 2019Copper Contributor
Is the VL edition of Office a must for Windows Virtual Desktop?
After getting Windows Virtual Desktop up and running in Azure, I went to install a copy of Office (I have an E3 license via the O365 portal) and got the following message: This copy of Microsoft ...
BrainGreenLab
Mar 29, 2019Copper Contributor
have same problems. thanks!
Christopher Anderson
Mar 29, 2019Copper Contributor
BrainGreenLab I think I figured out the trick. If you have the Office deployment tool push Office 2019 Enterprise, it seems to work. We'll see if it works long term with multiple users, but so far so good. I never could get the installer to work from a network share from a VM, so I just ran it straight on the client itself.
- Tim SettarApr 01, 2019Copper Contributor
Christopher AndersonYou can't use a Volume license unless you purchased licensing that way. Did they change the licensing terms because we were told we could not do that a few years ago? You would need a MKS and KMS license to activate it.
Seems weird they would require the volume license for a cloud offering like this.