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NAV2013 through RDP, do we have to buy all the Excel RDP lic
Miklos_Hollender
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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.
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.
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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.
http://mibuso.com/blogs/davidmachanick/
I have seen RTC used over the internet. So it is possible. With rtc all client processing is done on the server.
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.
Jens Møller-Pedersen [MSFT]
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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.