The University is participating in the Microsoft DreamSpark program, which offers students the option to download Microsoft developer software and designer tools free of charge.

HostExplorer is a full featured PC-to-host and Web-to-host terminal emulation solution that provides connections from a desktop to enterprise hosts.

ImageNow is the University's comprehensive imaging and document management system.

The University of Minnesota holds numerous Microsoft Licenses.  Choose your Campus, then your User License Type to see what license options are available to you or to your department.

PuTTY is a SSH and Telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. PuTTY is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.

R-Wipe & Clean securely removes files, browser caches, temporary files, recently used file listings, and previously deleted files that are in the computer's unallocated space.

Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) helps you identify the software installed on your computer and keep it up-to-date. Secunia PSI scans your computer for thousands of known programs, checks for missing security patches and vulnerabilities in those programs, and reports back to you with information on how to update them.

Note: For University-owned work computers, check with your local technical support staff to determine if you should run Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI).

SharePoint Server is a software platform for collaboration and web publishing that combines a number of capabilities under a single server. These capabilities include portal, content management system, business intelligence, search, wikis, blogs and application development. It allows users to perform a number of common tasks, such as publishing a web site or intranet, searching for content, managing content, or creating applications, but without having to install one separate server for each function.

Symantec EndPoint Protection protects your computer from viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Symantec Endpoint integrates essential technologies such as AntiVirus, antispyware, firewall, and intrusion prevention into one package. Symantec Endpoint Protection is compatible with Windows 7, Vista or XP Pro.  

Note: If you are a faculty or staff member using a University of Minnesota owned computer, talk to your local IT staff to determine which security package you should install.

Ghost Solution Suite provides high performance utilities for fast and safe system upgrading, backup, and recovery. Ghost writes disk images directly to popular CD-R/CD-RW drives, making it easy to back up your data.

Virtual Private Network (VPN) enables you to create secure connections to remote networks using a protected, individual tunnel to that network.

WinZip software "compresses" large files into smaller files for transfer over a network or for storage.

X-Win32 server software connects Windows PCs with UNIX servers (including Sun Solaris, HP/UX, IBM AIX, SCO, and FreeBSD) and with Linux machines running Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, and other distributions of Linux. Our contract covers access to download, install any/all: X-Win32, X-Win32FLASH, MacLIVE, LinuxLIVE. Please remember that each installation of the X-Win32 software requires a license.