Faculty & Staff Software:
Microsoft Titles

Centrally Purchased Software

UTS contracts with Microsoft and covers the cost of the following titles for any University-owned computer:

• Microsoft Office, PC and Macintosh Editions, including:

  • Word
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • Access
  • Outlook and Web Outlook (Exchange Client)

• Windows XP Desktop Operating System Upgrades

• FrontPage

• Publisher

• Project

How to get the software titles above

Please email Jason Bach at jbach@du.edu to obtain instructions on how to obtain media. Installation files are made available over a secure network share. NO volume license keys will be given out, as per our licensing agreement with Microsoft. Keys are embedded in our installation files for Office 2007 Enterprise. Vista Enterprise and Windows 7 Enterprise do not use volume license keys to install and instead activate through our network with a KMS server. After initial installation of Vista, it will require activation with our KMS server within 30 days, which is done automatically if connected to DU's network. Vista Enterprise needs to renew activation with our KMS server every 180 days with a 30 day grace period before entering into Reduced Functionality Mode. Users need to be aware of this before leaving campus for extended periods of time as Reduced Functionality Mode allows only activation requests and nothing more.

Tech Note: For products that typically require activation (MS Office for example) our license key will not require activation and will allow ghosting. 

Other Microsoft titles available at significant discounts

UTS also contracts directly with Microsoft to offer deep discounts on all other Microsoft products.  Any title not listed above must be purchased for each computer separately. EXCEPT FOR THE SOFTWARE TITLES LISTED ABOVE, YOU CANNOT INSTALL A SINGLE USER COPY ON MULTIPLE MACHINES.

Can you install it at home?

Under the following circumstances, only full time, benefitted DU employees (not students) can install a copy of the following products only on a laptop or desktop computer at home:

For each copy of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft FrontPage installed and used on a University-owned computer, the employee may also run a second copy, for work-related purposes only, from either a laptop or a desktop computer (not both) that the employee owns or leases. When an employee leaves DU, the software must be removed from a personally owned computer.

This copy is referred to as "Work at Home" rights. The employee cannot use the same volume licesning media or installation files found available through our secure network share. Media and separate license keys MUST BE OBTAINED through the DU Bookstore. Please contact Donovan Dowling for all "Work at Home" media requests.

Donovan Dowling

DU Bookstore

303-871-2673

dodowlin@du.edu