Microsoft Campus Agreement
Current Status (09/11/08): The Microsoft Campus Agreement was restructured beginning July 1, 2007. Departments: Sales of Buckeye Bundle 2 have ended. Funding for Campus Agreement departmental software for OSU-owned equipment has changed to a campus-wide assessment for colleges. Faculty and staff will obtain media from departmental media or purchase of media at UniPrint. The departmental software suite is now set to Windows 32/64-bit Operating System Upgrades, Office Pro/Enterprise (Macintosh and Windows) and CORE Client Access License (Macintosh and Windows). Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit take-home media may now be purchased for Work-at-Home use. Students now obtain Microsoft software at attractive prices under OSU's companion license, Microsoft Student Select. This is marketed as the Microsoft Personal Use Program. See Personal Use Program below.
Personal Use Program: Faculty, staff and students may purchase Personal-Use licenses on the Personal Use Program for their owned home computer. Faculty, staff and students own these perpetual licenses, which do not include upgrades. These copies may not be installed onto OSU-owned machines.
Products currently available to faculty, staff and students on the Personal Use Program are:
Office Enterprise 2007 -- $99.95
Office Professional Plus 2007 -- $79.95
Office Standard 2007 -- $63.95
Office 2004 for Mac Professional Edition -- $79.95
Office 2008 for Mac Professional Edition -- $63.95
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 -- $57.95
Office OneNote 2007 -- $19.95
Office Project Professional 2007 with 1 Project Sever CAL -- $133.95
Office Visio Professional 2007 -- $78.95
Windows Vista Business Upgrade (32-bit) -- $77.95*
Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade (32-bit) -- $107.95*
*Must be installed only onto a computer with a previous full Windows operating system license, as an upgrade.
Office Enterprise 2007 (departments): This is now available at Uniprint for faculty and staff for OSU-owned computers. The media is $7.99. It is also available for faculty/staff Work-at-Home use by purchase of the faculty/staff take-home media (for installation at home).
Windows Vista Enterprise/Ultimate (departments): This is now available at Uniprint for faculty and staff for OSU-owned computers. The Enterprise and Ultimate media is 32/64-bit and is bootable media at this time. The Enterprise 32-bit media is CD at $5.99; Enterprise 64-bit media and Ultimate media is DVD only and is $7.99. Windows Vista Business and Ultimate 32-bit media is available for faculty/staff Work-at-Home use by purchase of the faculty/staff take-home media (for installation at home).
Campus Agreement sales (departmental media) using OSU
funds and faculty/staff/student sales for the Personal Use Program are done in UniPrint at OSU Tuttle
Park Place, 2055 Millikin Way. Media is sold separately for each
product.
The Ohio State University has a Microsoft Campus Agreement for a suite of software for use by faculty and staff on OSU-owned equipment. Campus Agreement software is distributed as a license subscription, with the current contract period ending on June 30, 2010. The agreement also includes a Microsoft Select agreement for departmental purchase of Microsoft products not in the Campus Agreement, such as Project, Visio, etc. The Select agreement is a 3-year agreement, which extends from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2010. See contacts for the reseller for purchase of products at academic pricing on the Select agreement. Faculty, staff and students may also purchase selected titles of Microsoft software on the Personal Use Program with their own funds. Personal Use Program software includes a perpetual license at the version level purchased, but does not include upgrades. The Personal-Use licenses may only be used on your owned computer, not on OSU equipment.
The Microsoft Campus Agreement gives OSU faculty and staff access to Microsoft's popular computer software, including operating systems and desktop productivity tools for use on OSU equipment and on one personally-owned home computer for OSU business use (see faculty and staff under the Agreement tab). Version upgrades are available for the Campus Agreement software (departmental copies) during the subscription period. Funding for the Campus Agreement software is done through a campus-wide assessment to the colleges. There are no license fees to individual faculty and staff for the Campus Agreement software, except for the media fees for any media needed. All Campus Agreement software is distributed at UniPrint at Tuttle Park Place, 2055 Millikin Way. NOTE: Software obtained by a student on the expired Buckeye Bundle 2 agreement is a subscription copy and must be removed from their machine unless the student graduated from OSU by June 30, 2007 and requested a permanent license for their copy at the Tuttle UniPrint location at 2055 Millikin Way.
Microsoft Campus Agreement Departmental Software:
Macintosh
- Microsoft Office v.X Pro for Macintosh (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage, Virtual PC) -- MacOS X only.
- Microsoft Office 2008 Pro for Macintosh (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage, Microsoft Server Exchange Support) -- MacOS X only.
- CORE Client Access License (client access to Windows, Exchange, System Management and SharePoint Portal servers). Students are automatically covered for CORE CAL.
Windows
- Microsoft Office 2003 Pro (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook).
- Office Enterprise 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, Outlook, Publisher, InfoPath, OneNote, Groove).
- Windows operating system upgrades (Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro 32-bit/64-bit, Vista Enterprise/Ultimate 32-bit/64-bit and successor operating systems).
- CORE Client Access License (client access to Windows, Exchange, System Management and SharePoint Portal servers). Students are automatically covered for CORE CAL.
Note that for either the Windows or Macintosh platform you may install and use any number of copies of Office and any prior version of Office on a licensed device on OSU-owned equipment (the departmental software). For example, for Office, you may choose to run Office 2007 and Office 2003. This does not apply to the "Personal Use Software". Choosing an older version of a product may incur a nominal media copy fee. For more details on what software faculty and staff can run on one PC with the Microsoft Campus Agreement, consult "Agreement" in the menu bar above.
Get Help
You can get first level support from the OIT Technology Support Center (Help Desk) for the products in the Buckeye Bundle. They will answer questions about installation, as well as provide assistance with basic use of the applications. Contact the Help Desk by sending e-mail to 8help@osu.edu, by calling 688-HELP, or by visiting the web site.
In addition, you can select Help from the Start menus from within the various desktop systems. Often you also can look for an answer to your question by going to Microsoft Support Online. Another source of information is the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base search system.
Contact Information
For questions concerning this web page, please contact software@osu.edu or 614-688-HELP.
