Changes to Microsoft's licence model, from 1st October 2020, mean that we will no longer be able to provide unlimited site-wide licenses for Microsoft Project or Visio. Instead, we will move to single-user licences for staff. IT Services will continue to fund these licences, as long as the cost does not exceed our current budget.

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To find out the number of licences we need, please complete our brief survey as soon as possible, if you require access to Project or Visio from 1st October 2020. Please do so, only if you really need Project or Visio. Consider whether other free opti…

Starting on Thursday, the 13th of August the timing of updates to the IT Services Managed Desktop will change. Desktops will move to the same update mechanism as ITS Laptops which have already migrated.

Staff currently using Office for Mac 2016 on University Macs may have received notices from Microsoft asking you to upgrade to a later version, as Microsoft is withdrawing support for version 2016 in October 2020. All staff currently using Office for Mac 2016 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of Office for Mac, which you can do via your Office 365 account, following these instructions.

Although this is called 'Office 365', a full desktop version will be installed on your Mac. You do not need to be connected to the internet 100% of the time to use it - just once every 30 …