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As noted in my earlier Microsoft Finally Licenses Remote Desktop Services (RDS) on Windows Azure Virtual Machines article, last updated 12/17/2013, organizations providing customers access to Windows Applications running on Windows Azure Virtual Machines (WAVMs) via Remote Desktop Services (RDS), with or without RDWeb access, must enter into an indirect Microsoft Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA) and purchase Subscriber Access Licenses (SALs) from a reseller appointed by Microsoft. The only prereq
When this post was written in mid-January 2014, Microsoft had appointed eight US and seven Canadian resellers in the US . I chose Dell Computer, Inc. as OakLeaf’s reseller because they offered this simple sign-up procedure: