Hello,
I've been reading articles related to RDS CALs all week and I didn't find exactly what I need to know yet.
The company that I work for, has more than 25 users, and we are running the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials. We created all the users in the server, and the number of users is big for the Essentials version, so we need to upgrade.
We also use these users to connect using the Remote Desktop Connections, so we need to have more or less 20 simultaneous connections.
We are thinking about two possibilities:
1 - Downgrade to the 2008 server version
2 - Upgrade to the 2012 Standard version.
We would like to keep the Windows 2012 server and upgrade only the license to Standard, but my question is:
What we need to do to guarantee the remote access for the 25 users? I read we need to buy 25 RDS User CAL, but upgrading and buying this would be enough to have everything working fine or do I need to do anything else?
If it's possible I also would like to know if the price of the RDS User CAL is still US$118,00 per user.
Thank you very much.