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Installation and Usage Guidelines

As a member of the MSDN Academic Alliance, the department in which you take credit courses is authorized to provide you with program software for use on your personal computers. For those users that are not part of the College of Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, or the Isenberg School of Management, OIT distributes software by allowing access to downloads from this web site. To be in compliance with the MSDN Academic Alliance program requirements, you must follow these usage guidelines when using the program software on your computer. You must also agree to the terms of the MSDN End User License Agreement (EULA), the Amendment to the End User License Agreement, and any conditions required by your department or the University.

The MSDN-AA Site Administrator at your school will be responsible for maintaining records of student use and ensuring there is full compliance with the program among all department users, including students, faculty and systems administration staff. Please see your Site Administrator for any questions that you may have about the program, or refer to www.msdnacademicalliance.net.

By installing, copying, or otherwise using the Product, you agree to be bound by the terms of the EULA and the Amendment to EULA. If you do not agree to be bound, do not install, copy or use the Product.

Installation Guidelines:

  • The Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides web server access for you to download program software. The College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, and the Isenberg School of Management might provide loaner CDs. If you are a member of one of the three departments mentioned above, contact them through the links to see if loaner CDs are available.
  • If you are a Student, you must be registered in at least one credit course within a member department to be eligible to load program software on your personal use computer. Students registered solely for non-credit courses or soley in Continuing Education courses are not eligible to receive or download program software.
  • You may not give copies of loaned software to anyone else for their use. Other qualifying students must obtain software via the method(s) set up by the MSDN-AA Site Administrator.
  • In order to install certain components of the Product, you may need an Academic Alliance Product Key ("Product Key"). The Product Key will be assigned to install downloaded authorized software. You may not disclose the Product Key information to anyone else. The keys are valid for a single installation and registration. They can not be used to re-register on the same or a diferent computer.
  • The MSDN AA Site Administrator will maintain records of software downloaded from the server and will provide those records to Microsoft upon request.

Usage Guidelines:

  • You may use the software for non-commercial purposes including instructional use, research and/or design, development and testing of projects for class assignment and tests or personal projects. You may not use the Program software for any for-profit software development.
  • When you are no longer a registered student in a department that is a member of the MSDN Academic Alliance, you may no longer receive updates for your personal use computer. However, you may continue to use previously installed product on your computer, provided you continue to follow program guidelines.
  • If you violate the terms of the License Agreement and EULA, the MSDN-AA Program Administrator will demand confirmation of removal of the program software on your personal use computer.