I have a customer that has MS Office ProPlus 2016 installed on a collection of RD session hosts servers using the shared licensing method. Therefore, new users are given access to Office by purchasing an Office 365 (E3) subscription for them so that they can sign in and activate Office in their own account.
My customer generally doesn't like subscription-based solutions and prefers to purchase hardware and software outright, whenever possible, and now that they have a growing number of users, the monthly cost of all the E3 licenses is beginning to stack up.
So, the question they're asking is ... Is there another way? My own feeling is that the subscription method is still the best/cheapest way to do this (especially in the long term), but can this be done any other way, such as through Volume Licensing, and how cost effective would that be?
My customer generally doesn't like subscription-based solutions and prefers to purchase hardware and software outright, whenever possible, and now that they have a growing number of users, the monthly cost of all the E3 licenses is beginning to stack up.
So, the question they're asking is ... Is there another way? My own feeling is that the subscription method is still the best/cheapest way to do this (especially in the long term), but can this be done any other way, such as through Volume Licensing, and how cost effective would that be?
