Information Technology

The following information is excerpted from the Microsoft Campus Agreement Program Guide available on the Microsoft web site.

 

Work at Home Rights

Under Campus Agreement 3.4, your school may grant limited Work at Home Rights to faculty and staff members only at no extra charge. These rights permit the use of desktop or CAL products (with the exception of Microsoft Press titles and SQL Server CAL) on a personally owned computer for work-related purposes only. The institution can choose to extend these rights to users or not. On the Subscription Order Form, you select the products (if any) for which your institution chooses to extend Work at Home Rights.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Users are not licensed to use the software at home for personal purposes.

Before extending these rights, you should clearly understand the terms and conditions. By extending these rights, your institution accepts responsibility for communicating the terms and conditions to your faculty and staff. This includes keeping accurate records of software use and distribution and ensuring that your faculty and staff understand the stated terms and conditions.

For your convenience, we have provided a Faculty/Staff Acceptance Form that you may wish to have your users sign when granting them Work at Home Rights.

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Distributing Media for Work at Home Use

You may distribute media to faculty and staff for Work at Home (WAH) use using the following four methods only:

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  1. Purchase and distribute one copy of each applicable CD-ROM or disk set to each authorized user. These CDs or disk sets (known as “student media”) must be purchased from your Authorized Education Reseller (AER) in minimum quantities of 25 per title up to the number of licensed users. You cannot duplicate media for Work at Home use.

    [Available to MSUM employees through eSoftware]
     

  2.  Allow controlled download from your secure network server(s) or other storage device(s) utilizing volume licensing media that you acquired for installation on your institution machines (i.e. Welcome Kit media).

    [Not available to MSUM employees] 
     

  3. Have users bring in their computers for manual installation by you at a central location that you control utilizing volume licensing media.

    [Not available to MSUM employees] 
     

  4. Use a system of controlled short-term checkout of applicable volume licensing media solely for purposes of individual user installation. This option is available only for products for which a Volume Licensing Key (VLK) is not required. You cannot distribute VLKs to users for  Work at Home use. Your AER can assist you in determining which products require a VLK. For more information on VLKs, see Microsoft Product Activation and Volume License Product Keys in this guide.

    [Not applicable - All MSUM  WAH products require a VLK]