MSDNAA – e-academy Software downloading steps

MSDNAA – e-academy Software Downloading Steps

After you find the software you are interested in downloading and installing click on Add to Cart.

NOTE: The estimated download time for the software you’ve chosen! This varies depending on your internet connection.

You will be prompted to agree to the student use guidelines below:

MSDN Academic Alliance --Student Use 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. 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 Master End-User License Agreement, and any conditions required by your department.

The MSDNAA 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.msdnaa.net.

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

Installation Guidelines:

Your department will provide either server access for you to download program software, or may create up to 50 copies of the software to be checked out on a temporary basis to install on personal use computers. All software reproduced for checkout will be a complete copy, and include all copyright and trademark notices.
You must be registered in at least one credit course within the member department to be eligible to load program software on your personal use computer. Students registered solely for non-credit courses in the department are not eligible to receive 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 MSDNAA 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 solely to download authorized software. You may not disclose the Product Key information to anyone else.
The MSDN AA Site Administrator will maintain records of software downloaded from server or checked out, 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 software on your computer, provided you continue to follow program guidelines.
If you violate the terms of the License Agreement and EULA, the MSDNAA Program Administrator will demand confirmation of removal of the program software on your personal use computer.

You can now check out or continue shopping!

Once you click on download you will see the dialog box below:

Choose Run and then choose the location on your computer where the download will save the file. We’ve used C:\temp for this example. Then you will see the next dialog box.

You can see the percentage of the file that has downloaded in the status bar at the bottom.

Once this finishes downloading it will go onto Step 3 and unpack the file in this location.

Once this finishes you will see the next dialog box.

If you choose Launch Install it will begin to install your new software.

If you have difficulty with the file or if the file is corrupt and you need to download it a second time, log back onto the e-academy and choose My Software. You will see the list of software that you have downloaded.

You can now download the file again. This does not give you a second license to install this software on another computer. The serial # you received is your own personal number. When you click on Download you will see the serial # again.

If you prefer to burn your software to a CD (as long as your computer has the capability and software to do so), you can choose to close this dialog box instead of launch install.

Your software image will be in the folder you chose in the download step (i.e. we used C:\Temp).

As you can see our image is in the c:\temp\Expression Web (English) folder. This file is an ISO (an image of a cd that is on our computer). As long as you have CD burning software on your computer (i.e. Roxio, Nero, etc.) you can choose to burn an image to a CD and it will take this and transfer it to a CD. You cannot just copy the file as it needs to be converted with the software.

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