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Purdue School of Engineering and Technology's MSDN Academic Alliance site
This page is for information and help when using the Academic Alliance program.
Questions and Answers:
- What is this program?
- Who is eligible to use this program?
- How many installations or downloads am I allowed?
- Who do I go for help when using this program?
- What are ISO files?
- Is there a "giant DVD" that I can download with everything?
Microsoft's Academic Alliance program allows students, faculty, and staff that
are involved in an educational role to aquire Microsoft software at little or
no cost to them. This software is not to be used in any application that allows
money to be earned, school infrastructure, or similar use. This is provided by
Microsoft to learn to use their software or learn to perform various processes
with their software. Please note that this software only functions on
Microsoft's operating systems.
Any student, faculty, or staff in an educational role (teaching or learning) in
the CIT, ECE, ECET, or ME departments of the Purdue School of Engineering and
technnology. Students must have their instructors enroll them in this program.
Faculty and staff need to contact their MSDNAA Program Administrator. In
addition to these, faculty may request CNC to install any of the software
packages covered by this program in their labs or the open labs.
A participant may download one copy of any program listed at the MSDNAA web
site. This allows the downloaded programs to be installed once on any computer.
You may not install the package on more than one computer.
Within each of the departments authorized under the MSDNAA program, a single
program administrator has been appointed. The administrator's are as follows:
| Department |
MSDNAA Administrator |
| CIT |
Connie Justice
|
| CNT |
Chul Kim
|
| ECE |
Jeff Sears
|
| ECET |
Anna Shiver |
| ME |
Rudy Earlson |
Additionally, in some cases, the CNC group might be able to help depending the
problem encountered.
ISO files are CD or DVD images that can be written to a disk. In some operating
systems, one can read and write to an ISO file directly. We recommend that you
burn the ISO file to disk using the CD burning software included with your CD,
DVD, or computer system. If that software is not able to burn ISO images to
disk, CD Burner Pro is offered as a freeware program that will. Please go to
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ to download this software. Commercial
packages capable of burning an ISO image to disk include Nero and Roxio
products.
There isn't a disk with everything. This software is to be downloaded or
checked-out one package at a time. Each will have different license codes and
is authorized to be used on one computer unless a "lab key" was requested. If
you need to install the software on another system, please get with your MSDNAA
administrator and discuss it with them. If the use complies with the license,
they will set up MSDNAA to issue you another download and license key.
Additionally, if you read the license you accept with each package, you are
allowed to install this for personal use to learn the software. You are not
allowed to use it for economic gain (ie-make money with it) or for use in any
"for profit" organization. This includes being used at IU/IUPUI as any part of
the computing infrastructure or for grant submission..