Office license question

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If there are multiple versions of msaccess.exe on a PC, is a license for each
copy necessary? I saw a PC audit today where there were many copies of Access
on a PC. The explanation I was given is that many users login on this PC. My
understanding is that multiple users should be able to use the original
installed version. My contract is to legitimize the customers network and
insure Microsoft are happy. One other issue. User backups, copied to servers,
and local hard disks, seem to include msaccess.exe as well. Is this
considered OK with MS. Any responses deeply appreciated.
 
SeanKav said:
If there are multiple versions of msaccess.exe on a PC, is a license for
each
copy necessary? I saw a PC audit today where there were many copies of
Access
on a PC. The explanation I was given is that many users login on this PC.
My
understanding is that multiple users should be able to use the original
installed version. My contract is to legitimize the customers network and
insure Microsoft are happy. One other issue. User backups, copied to
servers,
and local hard disks, seem to include msaccess.exe as well. Is this
considered OK with MS. Any responses deeply appreciated.
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The number of USERS of a particular application that is installed on one
machine is irrelevant in licensing terms - as long as the installation on
the machine is properly licensed then you have nothing to worry about.
 
SeanKav said:
If there are multiple versions of msaccess.exe on a PC, is a license for
each
copy necessary? I saw a PC audit today where there were many copies of
Access
on a PC. The explanation I was given is that many users login on this PC.
My
understanding is that multiple users should be able to use the original
installed version. My contract is to legitimize the customers network and
insure Microsoft are happy. One other issue. User backups, copied to
servers,
and local hard disks, seem to include msaccess.exe as well. Is this
considered OK with MS. Any responses deeply appreciated.
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AFAIK you can't install more than one copy of MS Access on one PC.
Mike.
 
Thanks for the info guys. After remotely looking at the PC's, users are
backing up their entire drive (\windows, \Progran files, etc..) for reasons
they only know. The auditing software is picking up multiple copies of
msaccess.exe. I'm assuming if only one user can use Access on the PC at a
time, this shouldn't brake MS licencing rules. Is this correct? Thanks again.
 
As Gordon said, the license is for the PC, not the number of users on said
PC, you could have 1 user account or 20, it has no effect on the license.
 
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