Work at Home licenses for academic volume licensing customers
Updated: December 3, 2007
Educational institutions that have acquired licenses through Microsoft academic volume licensing programs may grant to their faculty and staff the right to use a second copy of a limited selection of products on either a home or portable computer for work-related purposes.
You and your affiliates must make reasonable efforts to ensure that faculty, staff, or other employee users delete and remove such copies from the temporary RAM and permanent memory (e.g. hard disk) of their computers at the end of the agreement term. To help you communicate these requirements to your users, sample Work at Home acceptance forms are available for download from right side of this page.
The following is an overview of the Work At Home rights available through each of our academic volume licensing programs.
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The information on this page applies to customers in the United States and Canada. Customers in other locations should refer to their regional Microsoft Licensing Web site or contact their local Microsoft representative for more information.
Open License for Academic and Select License for Academic Work at Home licenses
For each copy of Microsoft Office you license, the primary user of the computer on or from which the product is run may also run a second copy from either a laptop or desktop computer that he or she owns or leases. The software may be used only for work-related purposes and only during the term of the agreement (including any renewals). These Work at Home licenses do not apply to students unless the student is also an employee.
Campus Agreement and School Agreement Work at Home licenses
Work at Home licenses for Campus Agreement and School Agreement customers are available for all application, system, and CAL products at no extra cost. These limited rights permit using licensed products on a personally owned computer for work-related purposes only. You can choose to extend these rights to your faculty and staff members only for licensed products for which you have institutional licenses through your Campus or School Agreement.
Obtaining and distributing Work at Home software for Campus and School Agreement
Find out how to obtain and distribute Work at Home software.
Home Use Program for Campus and School Agreement
Campus and School Agreement customers may provide faculty and staff members access to the Microsoft Office system desktop PC programs to use on their personally owned computer through the Home Use Program (HUP). This is a benefit of Microsoft Software Assurance. With HUP, your faculty and staff members can get the Microsoft Office system programs to use on their home computer for both work and personal use at a nominal cost. Providing the HUP licensed product is easy for the institution, as the institution does not have to handle the distribution of the software. Once your Software Assurance benefits administrator activates the benefit, individual faculty and staff members can order and pay for shipping of their licensed product online. Learn more.
You are not permitted to provide licensed product for the same title to any individual faculty or staff member using both HUP and WAH.
Note
The information on this page applies to customers in the United States and Canada. Customers in other locations should refer to their regional Microsoft Licensing Web site or contact their local Microsoft representative for more information.
