I’m in the process of building some new VDAs with XA/XD version 2112 on Windows Server 2019. The target devices are being deployed using PVS.
We’re at the stage of installing and testing all our business applications and hoping to start UAT soon, however we’ve hit a bit of a roadblock with Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise (O365ProPlus as its sometimes referred).
We just now discovering that the required licensing feature of shared computer activation requires an O365 E3 license, when the vast majority of our Citrix users are only licensed with the much cheaper E2 license.
My manager did account for this when dealing with Microsoft earlier in the year and has paid for some additional device-based licensing. This comes with some other requirements that we need to investigate internally, such as getting our new VDA’s hybrid domain joined in AzureAD.
Before we spend too much time working on this, I wanted to see if anyone has been able to successfully implement this licensing model for non-persistent VDI solutions that use multi-session OS (Windows Server 2019). I just don’t want to spend significant effort researching and implementing hybrid AzureAD and device-based licensing to discover it’s not applicable in a non-persistent Citrix VDA scenario.
Absolutely nothing that I've found online talks about licensing O365 Apps in Citrix with anything other than shared computer activation, yet Microsoft licensing teams are telling me it'll work.
In case it helps, relevant versions below:
Apps and Desktops 2112 on Windows Server 2019 Datacenter
WEM 2112 on Window Server 2019
Licensing, StoreFront, Controller, PVS Server (and target device software) are all 2106 or the version packaged with that ISO on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
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Andrew Meneguz1709154345
I’m in the process of building some new VDAs with XA/XD version 2112 on Windows Server 2019. The target devices are being deployed using PVS.
We’re at the stage of installing and testing all our business applications and hoping to start UAT soon, however we’ve hit a bit of a roadblock with Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise (O365ProPlus as its sometimes referred).
We just now discovering that the required licensing feature of shared computer activation requires an O365 E3 license, when the vast majority of our Citrix users are only licensed with the much cheaper E2 license.
My manager did account for this when dealing with Microsoft earlier in the year and has paid for some additional device-based licensing. This comes with some other requirements that we need to investigate internally, such as getting our new VDA’s hybrid domain joined in AzureAD.
Before we spend too much time working on this, I wanted to see if anyone has been able to successfully implement this licensing model for non-persistent VDI solutions that use multi-session OS (Windows Server 2019). I just don’t want to spend significant effort researching and implementing hybrid AzureAD and device-based licensing to discover it’s not applicable in a non-persistent Citrix VDA scenario.
Absolutely nothing that I've found online talks about licensing O365 Apps in Citrix with anything other than shared computer activation, yet Microsoft licensing teams are telling me it'll work.
In case it helps, relevant versions below:
Apps and Desktops 2112 on Windows Server 2019 Datacenter
WEM 2112 on Window Server 2019
Licensing, StoreFront, Controller, PVS Server (and target device software) are all 2106 or the version packaged with that ISO on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
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