Your student identifier is your NSU ID in ALL CAPS. This also applies to faculty. Use your NSU email address as the email address. If I find email addresses other than the NSU address, the account will be disabled and you will NOT be allowed back on the system. We have set up the system to be as simple and user friendly as possible, and using the NSU email is the best way to ensure compliance with the Microsoft license.

If the system accepts your registration, you will receive the following message by email:

Hello,
Welcome! You have been registered in your university/college ELMS for MSDNAA online software system. Here, you can download, purchase, and/or check-out software from a wide range of Microsoft developer tools, servers, and platforms. There is no charge to download and/or check-out the software as long as you are an eligible user in the System.
How Does It Work?
Your university/college is licensed under the MSDN Academic Alliance Program which enables eligible students and faculty members to access software available under the Program. e-academy Inc., a partner of Microsoft, is providing ELMS for MSDNAA to you. Simply log into the System using your username and password included below, and start browsing/ordering the software available to you.
Your MSDNAA Online Software System can be found at:http://msdn08.e-academy.com/nsuok_inftec
Username: (the email address you provided at registration)
Password:(the password you provided at registration)
Technical Support
If you have any technical difficulties, please go to the support section in the website and click on Request Customer Support. Technical support is provided by your MSDNAA Program Administrator at your school.
General Information
If you have general questions about the MSDNAA Program, who is eligible, general rules and regulations, etc..., please go to the support section in the website for contact information.
Please keep this e-mail for future reference, as you will need you username and password in order to access the online software system.
Remember, by accessing the Microsoft software through this system, you are stating that you are authorized, and are agreeing to comply with all usage guidelines.
Sincerely,
ELMS for MSDNAA Staff
e-academy Inc.
Date: xxxxxxx

Enter your NSU email address as your username, and the password that you provided during registration.

You can now select the most popular choices on the first page, or you can search by product title. (One of the titles that you can download is the Business edition of Microsoft Vista, and we plan to expand the selection with software choices with products such as Visual Studio. Unfortunately, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel are not included in the software that MS allows us to make available to faculty and students. That would probably cut into sales of the Office suite too much....)

Let us assume that you need Access 2003 to work on database exercises for IS1003 or IS3063. Click on the Access 2003 icon.

Read the conditions and click on the “I agree” button at the bottom of the page.

Enter your last name, first name, and leave your NSU email unchanged. You may want to de-select the MSDN student flash check box. Click on the “next” button

Make a note of your license number. WRITE IT DOWN AND KEEP IT IN A SAFE PLACE. Click on the download button. This will let you save and run a software downloader.

In the folder that opens, find the installation executable. This is generally a file with the name “setup.exe” or “install.exe”.

The installation will start, and this is where you are going to need the license key that you wrote down earlier.