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MSDNAA Home Program Highlights - For Student - For Faculty - For Staff FAQs 
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MSDNAA Software License Highlights
OVERVIEW
The goal of the MSDN is to provide the development
community with the latest tools and information to enable
the rapid creation of innovative new applications. The MSDN
Academic Alliance (MSDNAA) is a special program to provide
academic institutions, faculty, and students with
leading-edge tools at a very low cost.
The products covered by this licensing program are available to all eligible students and faculty for instructional use and/or non-commercial research use ONLY. In addition, the software that is part of this program may not be used to run the infrastructure of departments, or other units, of the College. Instructional purposes are defined as, "conducting educational classes, labs, or related programs for teaching and/or learning the products or concepts related to the products that are part of this program." Examples include: classes on software development, introduction to programming languages, systems design and analysis, relevant mathematics courses, relevant science courses, or relevant engineering courses. Research purposes are defined as, "conducting not-for-profit research projects."
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MSDN Library
Contains technical articles and tool documentation, SDK documentation, DDK documentation, royalty-free sample applications, and Microsoft Developer Knowledge Base (bug fixes and code workarounds). -
Microsoft Operating Systems, SDKs and DDKs
Includes all the latest releases, including Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista (coming soon) -
.NET Enterprise Servers
Including Windows 2003 Server, Exchange Server 2003, Commerce Server, SQL Server, Systems Management Server, Application Center 2000, BizTalk Server, and Host Integration Server. -
Microsoft Visual StudioŽ .NET 2005
Including Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++.NET, Visual C# .NET, Visual J# -
Applications
Including Visio Professional 2003 , Microsoft Project Professional 2003 , Access 2003, OneNote 2003, Virtual PC, (Access Project, Visio 2007 coming soon)
Please note that Microsoft Office is not available via this program.
- The software that is part of this license is restricted to instructional use and/or non-commercial research use ONLY.
- The software that is part of this license may not be used to run the infrastructure of any units of ABIIT.
- Students must be taking at least one for-credit course offered by the Computer Science or Networking department to be eligible to download and install software under this license.
- Students and faculty who leave the College are able to continue to use software from this license that was loaded on their machines PRIOR to their departure from the College. This software may only be used for purposes specified by the MSDNAA EULA.
- Software distribution to faculty and students is done through the electronic license management system (ELMS) maintained by E-Academy.
- Students, faculty, and staff are authorized to download software through the ELMS system after DROP/ADD period at the start of each trimester.
- For students your college email address (username@students.abiit.edu.ag) serves as your login id (your initial password will be emailed to this address when you are authorized).
- For faculty and staff your college email address (username@abiit.edu.ag) serves as your login id (your initial password will be emailed to this address when you are authorized).
- By using the software available through this licensing program you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of the end-user license agreement (EULA). Be sure to read and understand the license agreement and the program usage guidelines
