How msdnaa works

Hi everyone,

i recently received a question on how all the CD keys work with MSDNAA I'm going to put a disclaimer here that this to the best of my knowledge is correct, but there might be mistakes, i have done everything to avoid them. Alternatively if you want to read the actual contracts and legal stuff contact me and ill get that for you, or alternatively contact SS or the help desk and at least on of them should have all that documentation.

The school has two types of software that is receives from MS the simplest to deal with is something that does not require activation. For this type of software there is a generic CD key for all students and staff who want to use it.

The second type are products that require activation, this includes vista, for this the school gets pools of keys that they hand out to students on request, most of these keys are single license and as for all MSDNAA they are for educational purposes.

Now just to note MSDNAA is not MSDN! MSDNAA has a subset of software that is available on and MSDN subscription and also the licensing wise you get much more out of the normal MSDN subscription. Now we as students don't have access to www.msdn.com, however the school should have access to the subscription part of this site.

I hope this helps

Alex

Vista keys now available

The Vista business CD key can now be requested from the CSE website.

I received the following email from SS

Please note the Business version is the only version that will be

available to us (and you). For information on what the differences
are between the many versions, please consult the Microsoft Vista
site :
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/editions/default.mspx

Keys can be obtained from https://status.cse.unsw.edu.au/accinfo/
and, until our webservers are upgraded to Apache 2.0 (probably not
until the new year), the DVD must physically be borrowed from the
Help Desk.

It is likely that the keys released to MSDNAA will work
with any other Vista DVD release, but I can't say for sure.

Help Desk hours are currently 1:00pm to 3:00pm Monday to Friday

Thanks to SS for organising this.

MSDNAA and Office 2007

I was told today by a microsoft staff that Office 2007 will not be available with a MSDNAA but "there is a special student promo coming out around O week" I don't know what this will be but i will blog when details are out. If you want to be notified leave a comment or contact me.