I work in PC tech support by day, and have supported a friend's small business on and off for the last few years.
I am tasked with upgrading an aging Win 2000 server and am thoroughly confused by Microsoft's new terminology for their services and licensing for Windows Server 2012.
Here's what currently exists on site:
2 MS DOS PCs (before you ask - specialty manufacturing equipment)
4 XP PCs (also manufacturing equipment)
4 windows 7 clients
Windows 2000 server which is central repository of programming files for the manufacturing equipment
5-10 users (employees, including myself for maintenance tasks)
What I'm adding:
New Server with windows 2012 server.
5 Thin Clients for Adobe Reader, MS Office applications only.
I understand now that RDS is more or less like Citirx, and not a licensing mechanism that controls RDP sessions, which I initially thought. I need to know the minimum (cheapest) amount of licensing required for the above scenario. I had originally spec'd out Server 2012 standard with 10 User CALs, but now I'm seeing that if I want to configure the thin clients in a way where all they have is special access then I need RDS CALs as well.
Thanks in advance.