NAV2013 through RDP, do we have to buy all the Excel RDP lic

Miklos_Hollender

cences?

Excel RDP licence for 20 users is like €6000. €300 per user.

We intend to host the NAV server of our Danish subsidiary in Austria because here we have the IT team, not there. Such long distances work well with RDP but would not work so well with a client server environment. Plus we can control much better what is set up, what external programs are linked to the client, client side automation, we can turn off copy-pasting in RDP if the boss worries about some users may be abusing data etc. etc. so really better to use it through RDP.

But to be able to export data to Excel, user the PowerPivot etc. would we have to buy the expensive Excel RDP licences when we have already bought it locally on their PCs?

This was not a problem in the past because users could just copy paste to locally installed Excel. This would work, but they would not be able to use the much more enchanced functionality like PowerPivot.

mdPartnerNL

Copy Rows still work. With this you only need a local excel.

I guess you disabled this in RDP. So then yes, you need a TS license of Office (but then the disabling of copy/paste) didn't help either.

davmac1

Time to consider Office 360? Isn't that licensed per user regardless of which device they use?

mdPartnerNL

No, don't think so. Office on a TS Server can only install with a RDP license. Office 365 license will not work.

Miklos_Hollender

If RTC is a thin client, do I really need another thin client like RDP or could I have the server running in Vienna and the clients installed in Denmark? With Classic we could not do this, as it was a thick client, issued every database operation but with RTC in 2013? Was RTC meant for remote operation? Did MSFT ever said anything about that?

mdPartnerNL

RTC is not a thin client. So I would still advice rdp and this is possible too in a browser. The webclient is also limited in functionality.

I have seen RTC used over the internet. So it is possible. With rtc all client processing is done on the server.

Jens_M-P

You can run RTC locally connected to a remote server (ability added in NAV 2009 R2). How efficient that is depends on the latency to the NAV server - but it is worth trying out.
You need to set up proper certificates etc. and decide on the authentication mechanism to use. Take a look at e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj551778(v=nav.71).aspx.

Marije_Brummel

mdPartnerNL wrote:

RTC is not a thin client. So I would still advice rdp and this is possible too in a browser. The webclient is also limited in functionality.

I have seen RTC used over the internet. So it is possible. With rtc all client processing is done on the server.

The RTC is a fat client that has been on a serious diet.

I would most certainly look into running RTC over WAN like Jens is suggesting.

All the NAV excel features will use local excel, I don't know how powerpivot is programmed. If they make office xml server side than you are good to go.