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sajer137
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View Licensing - Mixed environment

Is it possible to run a View 6.0 environment with a Standard and Enterprise key?  From what I can see you can only enter 1 key.

We're interested in using a standard license for a majority of our users and then utilize an Enterprise License for a smaller subset of users for RDS access.

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As you noted it will only accept one key.   You will have to enter you Enterprise license key and then put some checks in to make sure you don't go over your allowed license count. 

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mittim12
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As you noted it will only accept one key.   You will have to enter you Enterprise license key and then put some checks in to make sure you don't go over your allowed license count. 

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So are you suggesting using the Enterprise key as the primary license into View Administrator and then just assume you can run Enterprise + Standard users?

I'm in the same boat as well.  We have 600 concurrent Standard licenses, we want to split that into 500 Standard + 100 Advanced (we want to do app delivery to our staff users but keep all our student labs under the Standard license) but have no real answer on how to do it.  It's economically not feasible to upgrade all of our licenses when we don't plan on utilizing the features that upgrading will get us for 90% of our users.

I've been told that to do this I'd probably have to spin up another standalone connection server and put the Advanced license key on that, and then the Standard key on our primary connection server.  Basically the connection server with the Advanced license would be used for app delivery while the other would be for the virtual desktops.  Seems messy when there should be a cleaner way, but Horizon 6 is really a 1.0 product when it comes to most of the new features.

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