We provide Office and Exchange and Sharepoint services to our users who are all "permanent road warriors" - by which I mean they don't belong to any domain, they don't even dial in to a VPN, they act as if they were using hosted services.
We are about to purchase Office 2013 and would like to move to a KMS licencing setup for Office. I understand they will need to VPN in to our network to connect to the KMS server (Server 2012) every now and then, which is OK. They will only ever VPN in for this reason. My question is about what the experience will be for them.
I understand a computer can go 180 days without connecting to the KMS. But I see mentions of 30 days in places. Will the users recieve alerts or anything? My desire is that after 180 they recieve an alert, VPN in, validate the licence and then get on with things. I don't want them being continually notified that there were errors connecting the the KMS or something.
So the question is: As an Office 2013 user, what do you experience if your computer can't connect to the KMS server? After a week, after a month, after 180 days.... Also, what happens if your computer can't connect to the KMS at the moment of installation?