Site License Advisory Team

December 2, 2013 meeting

Agenda

1. SLS Server Change in November2. Microsoft Student Advantage (Office 365)3. Renewals:

1. SAS2. JMP3. SigmaPlot4. Maple

4. Upcoming upgrades5. Corel and Adobe and Creative Software5. Questions & new location for meetings going

forward

SLS Changes Servers

• In early November, OCIO Site Licensing changed servers for software downloads– Initially, this caused some issues– Issues were marked resolved by about the

third week of Nov.

• Improvements include:– Additional, enterprise-level support– More reliable large-file downloads– Faster downloads

• Last month we told you about a change in MS student licensing. Here’s the rundown:– MS is offering schools the ability to license

students in their own way for Office 365– This provides most of the value from the more

expensive option ($100k+/year more) that we did not option to buy in our renewal

– Rollout: this is the hard part

Microsoft Student Advantage

Office 365 for Students

• Offering allows students to install five desktop copies and five mobile copies of Office locally.

• License is subscription, not perpetual

• This would be an add-on to Buckeye Mail for students– We would need to do a lot of backend work to

make this work for us.

Office 365 for Students

• WiredOut will continue selling perpetual Office licenses to students/faculty/staff for $50.

• Over time, we will be able to bring on Office 365 ProPlus, but impressions are that it will take some time to stand up the infrastructure

• Once it is stood up, it will likely also be sold through WiredOut

Office 365 for Students

• Discussion with Microsoft on Tuesday was very candid regarding these changes. Microsoft indicated in that call that we would see something (not a refund) to account for the change.

• OCIO will have representatives at the IUC meeting Nov. 1 to understand what Microsoft will offer.

Microsoft SQL Server

• We continue to negotiate with Microsoft on this topic.

System Center 2012 R2

• Now available via Self Service (and working)– Windows 8.1

– Windows Server 2012 R2

– System Center 2012 R2• SCEP R2 for Mac, Linux, and Windows up for

download

– OCIO has removed SCCM SP1, Windows 8, and Server 2012 from Self Service and replaced them with the new offerings

– KMS Servers for 8.1 and 2012 R2 up and running

• SAS– Renewals began 9/1 with new codes (already

received; Codes began to warn on 11/15, hard fail 12/31/13

• Renewing SAS 9.1.3, SAS 9.2, SAS 9.3, and SAS 9.4

• SAS 9.4 is (64-bit only)

– Distribution Update• Reviewing download on new server to help get 9.4

out.

Completed Renewals

Upcoming Renewals

• JMP– PO cut last week, invoice received, payment in

process• Expiration: Nov. 30• Warnings start: Jan. 15• Codes Hard Fail: March 1

• SigmaPlot– PO cut, codes in process

• Codes Fail: approx. Dec. 4

• Maple– 2 and 3 year quotes received today.

• Expiration Dec. 17 (no codes to replace)

Upgrades

• JMP 11 – Update scheduled to coincide with new codes (expected Mid-December)

• SPSS 22 – Update scheduled for Mid-December

• Secunia 7 – Expect an e-mail this week if you are a user to begin the upgrade process

• SAS 9.4 – Pending tests of downloads, and USB duplication process

• We’ve reached out to Adobe again to try and re-start stalled discussions

• Very attractive offer from Corel for their Creative suite was accepted by MHEC.– If we buy enough we can put it in the hands of

students cheaply ($15/copy for a perpetual license)

– Corel is interested in an IUC-wide deal that might be better than the MHEC pricing, as well.

Adobe and Corel

Questions/Comments

• Next meeting Jan. 31, 2014, 10 AM– There is no December meeting, but by

January we will no longer have use of BSE 580.

– John Jacobs has offered a room over at Fisher CoB