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Microsoft Campus Agreement is an annual, subscription-licensing program
specially created to address the unique needs of higher education institutions.
Along with the flexibility of a streamlined agreement and subscription process,
you’ll appreciate the simplicity of counting people instead of computers, making
it easy to license your entire institution.
Overview
The Microsoft Campus Agreement (MSCA) provides students, faculty, and staff
access to Microsoft’s popular computer software, including operating systems
and desktop productivity tools. Through the MSCA contract, every student,
faculty member, and staff employee in the College System will have access to the
latest versions of this important suite of software for use on campus.
This will give the College System a competitive advantage in recruiting and retaining students,
as the software tools they most often need (and usually buy on their own) will now be available
to them at no additional cost by attending College System schools. The most popular desktop packages
from Microsoft are included for PC for use by thin clients in conjunction with Microsoft Windows
Terminal Services.
Cost and Eligibility
The software products under this agreement are available at no
additional cost to users of the institution.
Computers owned by College System
All computers that are owned by the College System are covered by the Microsoft Campus
Agreement. Departmental staff may install covered products for use for the duration of the agreement.
Computers owned by Students
Students are eligible provided they are currently enrolled in a degree-granting program
at College System. Corresponding and Long-Distance students are not eligible under the
MSCA unless they are also officially admitted to a College System institution.
Students are permitted to run covered products on one personally- owned machine for
use for the duration of the agreement. The one exception to this is Office which can be
installed on one desktop computer and one portable computer for their exclusive use.
When students graduate, they become permanently licensed for products covered at the time
of graduation. If students leave the College without graduating, they must remove all products
obtained under the MSCA.
Computers owned by Faculty and Staff (home use)
Faculty, faculty emeriti, and staff in the College System wholly-owned and operated entities are
eligible for work-at-home use with certain restrictions. Retired faculty and staff are not eligible.
Faculty and staff work-at-home users are permitted to run covered products on one personally-owned
machine for use for the duration of the agreement, provided that:
- Only use software products that are provided for use at work though the versions may vary. For example, if you have Office 2000 on your work computer, you can install Office on your home computer.
- Use the software for College/University-related business.
Work-at-home users must uninstall the software from their personally-owned computer when
they leave employment at the College System, or if the software is no longer made available
for their use at work.
Who is not eligible?
Individuals are not eligible under the MSCA unless they meet the specific criteria above.
Such ineligible individuals consist of (but are not limited to):
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Anyone enrolled exclusively in non-credit courses
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Conference attendees
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Alumni
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Visitors
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Companies, and their employees, who have been hired on a contractual basis for services on or off campus. (i.e., individuals not directly employed by the college System employees who do not use a computer at work
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Retired faculty and staff .
System Requirements
Requirements vary by product. Please refer to the Microsoft Web site for detailed information.
Benefits of the Microsoft Campus Agreement
Easy Compliance
All computers in the institution are licensed for the term of the agreement and
it is easy to be sure that the institution is fully licensed for use of MS Products
that we have selected the bundle.
Low Administration
Subscription licensing eliminates the need to track licenses for individual Campus Agreement products on every computer in future. This is very helpful for managing software assets in a decentralized environment.
Stay Current on Technology
With the subscription licensing program, the users are licensed to run most of the current
version of the software products included in the agreement . The institution will automatically
receive the media for the products that can upgrade during the agreement of the term.
Simple Budgeting and Purchasing
One payment covers all the MSCA products that we have selected for the term.
Excellent Value
By standardizing the platform of products, the total cost of the software
ownership is reduced while productivity and access to current technology are increased.
Also we get the benefits of software Assurance membership including support resources,
tool and eLearning courses.
Cost effectiveness
All the existing Computers in the College will be upgraded with these MS products
like OS (Including all latest versions), Windows Servers OS with unlimited CALs,
Office (Latest 2007), and Visual Studio. Net, MS Sql Server database software with
unlimited number of licenses.
- Microsoft Server Operating System
- Microsoft desktop Operating System
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft SQL Server (Database)
- Microsoft Visual Studio Dot Net
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