I very rarely resort to asking question like this and will normally get by with reading previous posts. However; this time I am out of my depth. I don't even know which keywords to search!
I am starting a small business that will have less than 10 employees, all working either from home or from remote locations. We are using Sharepoint and Office 365 for email and document storage.
We also need to be able to share licenses for a few pieces of specialist software. The software licenses would normally be shared by a bunch of people on the same LAN. Each piece of software has a licensing client that makes sharing over a LAN very easy. The problem is that I have no idea how to achieve this between distinct LANs.
My guess is that we wither need a physical server somewhere, or a virtual server. We would then load the licensing clients onto this server and each of us would use a VPN tunnel to access the licenses from our own LAN. I can easily build a server and get a static IP address, if that is what is needed.
Is it possible to do this without paying a VPN provider? Could I just point the other users to a static IP? Is it possible and economically viable to pay for a virtual server (can Azure do this)?
Everything I google just seems to come up with ways to make my browsing private, or how-to-guides for specific router to router connections.
Any advice at all, even just better key words to search, would be greatly appreciated.
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