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How to use MS Office on Windows Server 2022

Windows Server 2022 is the newest version of Windows Server and the operating system is supported until October 2031. Microsoft 365 Apps (formerly Office 365) is NOT supported on Windows Server 2022. However, Office LTSC 2021 is supported on Windows Server 2022. Office 2019 is also supported on Windows Server 2022. See Office/Windows matrix here: […]

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Microsoft Access Runtime (free download) on our Remote Desktop (Terminal) Servers

Do you need full Microsoft Access to create/modify Access databases or do you only need Access Runtime to allow users to only run existing Access databases.  If you only need MS Access Runtime, you can save on Office/Access licensing fees. Riptide Hosting can provide Microsoft licensing for the full version of Access 2019, Access 2016, […]

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Microsoft Licensing for Remote Desktop Users and MS Office Users

On our Windows VMs, we provide the Microsoft licensing (Windows Server licensing on all, and when needed: MS Office (or a component such as MS Access or MS Excel), Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and SQL Server). In fact, our users cannot use their own Microsoft licensing on our Windows VMs. If a client want to […]

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Office 365 plans changing names to Microsoft 365 plans

In April 2020, some Office 365 Plans will be re-branded as Microsoft 365 Plans. The plan features are not changing (yet) but the plan names are. Here is a list of new plan names: Office 365 Pro Plus will be Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/name-change Office 365 Business will be Microsoft 365 Apps […]