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MSDN Academic Alliance

What is the MSDN Academic Alliance?

The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Academic Alliance is a specialised version of the MSDN Universal Abonnements, that Microsoft offers only to schools and universities, whose focus lies in the area of software devolpment.

This licensing program allows the usage of the offered software on any lab system of the participating school or university. In addition to that, the software may be used by any member of the participating schools or universities, like staff, teachers or students on their personal computers at home, as long as the software is used in purpose of research or teaching.

The "Institute für Informatik" has got a MSDNAA subscription and offers its usage to any staff member of the institute and any student enlisted in the subject of comupter science, regardless if computer science is the major or minor subject.

This program aims at two goals:

  • Gaining knowledge in working with Microsoft products, that are used in software development - for example development tools, operating systems and server applications.
  • Granting every student access to Microsoft technologies, especially to those who could not afford it by other means.

Please notice: License terms allow the usage of the MSDNAA products only for teaching, studying or researching purpose. Any usage in any other kind is excluded. This comprises any form of sublicensing, especially selling, letting, leasing or lending. The usage of server products is permitted in labs only and therefore is limited by the license terms. For more informations to license terms take a look at the FAQ.

Software

A complete list of the MSDNAA software available can be found on the (English) MSDNAA page. Many software products in the MSDNAA program may be downloaded directly from the Microsoft download server - each version but only once. Some software packages will provide you with a license key via e-mail sent to you, while other software packages will contain the key in the package already.

The support group "Neubau" is in charge over the MSDNAA service within the Institute. If necessary, the institute may provide more products, eg special language versions on the MSDNAA PC download server (talos.informatik.uni-bonn.de).

The following software product groups are ready to download:

  • All current Microsoft operating systems, including Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003
  • Microsoft Project Professional
  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Professional
  • Microsoft Visio Professional
  • Current versionen of Microsoft Server products like SQL Server, Exchange Server, BizTalk Server, Share Point Portal Server, Commerce Server, etc.
  • Software-Development-Kits and Device-Driver-Kits
  • Current versionen of the MSDN-Library
  • NOT all Microsoft Office products are available

Sign up

Before you can download software, you must subscribe to participate in the MSDNAA register. Registration is done via a web portal of the institute of computer science. After you register your account it will be enabled after 24 hours. Please log in using your computer science login as namen.

Download Software

Click here to get to the MSDNAA server. To register, please use your computer science account name. After a successful registration, you are able to download software packages, that you can install on your computer. You may also create backup copies.

In containerroom C3 (Linux-pool), there is a PC with a CD/DVD burner (name: Talos, next to the printer Gutenberg). On this computer, only persons can log in, who are participating in the MSDNAA program. There, we are offering you the opportunity to download the MSDNAA software directly here at the institute and then burn the images to a CD/DVD, which you have to bring yourself. You can also mount \\talos\MSDNAA-Downloads as a network drive to a computer, within the informatik.uni-bonn.de domain and then copy the software directly onto that computer. If the software requires a key, you will have to retrieve it through MSDNAA.

FAQ

Here you can find the local FAQ made by the institute.

For more information take a look at the Microsoft website about this topic.

Contact

If you experience any problems, please contact us through the Helpdesk.

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