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in need to purchase 41 adobe pro dc licences that we can use on either a virtual environment or a desktop pc? is there a subscription licence to cover this and if so what are the details?
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No, that is not how the license for a virtual environment (e.g. Citrix, VMWare Horizon, etc...) would work. Here is the quote from the ETK:
VIRTUALIZED DEPLOYMENTS — Enterprise Administration Guide
Adobe requires that organizations have a valid Acrobat software license for every user that has access to Acrobat on a server. Note the 10.x licenses can only be used for 10.x products, 11.x licenses can only be used for 11.x products, and so on. For more information, see http://www.adobe.com/legal/licenses-terms.html.
Product | Serialized? | Named user? | Notes |
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Citrix XenApp | Required | Unsupported | The activation count is increased by one for each server. Admins can control user access by specifying groups. |
Windows Terminal Server | Required | Unsupported | |
Microsoft App-V | Supported | Supported | The activation count is equal to the number of clients on which a package is published. Admins can pre-serialize the package or allow users to activate with an ID. |
VMware Horizon | Required | Unsupported |
Named user deployments do not use serial numbers for licensing: the end user simply “activates” Acrobat by logging in. Some virtual environments require that you serialize and deploy Acrobat DC with a serial number. Named user deployment is always supported on dedicated virtual desktops (also known as VMs) because this is similar to deploying on a local machine, and users can sign in with their Adobe ID or Enterprise ID.
Note
If you have purchased Acrobat DC using Adobe Value Incentive Plan (VIP), then you don’t have access to serial numbers.