Agriculture Information Technology

Advisory Group (AITAG)

Baseline Software for North Dakota State University
Agriculture and University Extension

Developed by the Ag IT Advisory Group

updated October 8, 2007

Baseline Software Supported by NDSU Agriculture

Below is a list of desktop baseline software packages supported by NDSU Agriculture and University Extension. Each package has an arrow associated with it.

	Software is being supported. One software program with an up arrow in each category is currently being installed on new purchases upon departmental/office approval.
	Software is being supported; it will be re-installed where previously installed if an upgrade is not appropriate; it will not be installed on new purchases.
	Software is being supported; it will be re-installed where previously installed if an upgrade is not possible; it will not be installed on new purchases; program will likely be removed from baseline within 6 months.

Support Parameters

• Users may select software that is not part of the baseline, but it will not be supported.
• Supporting baseline software means having the software installed and operational.
• Support for specific operational tasks associated with the software are the responsibility of the user.
• Additional site-licensed software is available, but it will not be supported as part of the baseline.
• The status of this software is subject to change at six-month intervals when it is evaluated by the Agriculture Information Technology Advisory Group (AITAG).

Baseline Software for NDSU Agriculture

Current pricing information for Microsoft products can be found at HECN's Software Licensing pages. Other application pricing is also available.

* Software packages identified with a single asterisk (*) are required on all new computer setups.

Software Categories	Software Programs
Operating System	Windows VISTA	Currently Unsupported
	Windows XP
	Windows 2000
Office Product Software includes word processing (Word), spreadsheet (Excel), database (Access), desktop publishing (Publisher) and presentation (PowerPoint).	*Microsoft Office 2007 Professional +
	Microsoft Office 2003 Professional
**Web Authoring/Editing	MS Expression Web
	MS FrontPage 2003
	Dreamweaver CS3
	Dreamweaver 8
	Contribute 4
E-mail	Outlook 2007
	Outlook 2003
	Pegasus 4.41
Web Browser	Internet Explorer 7.0
	Internet Explorer 6.0
	**Firefox 2.0
Web Browser Plug-in (PDF reader)	*Acrobat Reader 8.0
Web Browser Plug-in (video viewer)	Windows Media Player 9.0 and above
	Real Player 8.0 and above
Virus Checker	*McAfee 8.5i
Remote Administration	NetMeeting
File Transfer Client	WINSCP 3
**Terminal Software for Mainframe Hosts	TeraTerm Pro SSH with TTSSH 1.5.4
**Calendaring and scheduling	Oracle Calendar 10 (formerly called Corporate Time)
**Photo Editing Software	Adobe PhotoShop CS 3
	Adobe PhotoShop CS 2 (9.0)
	Adobe PhotoShop Elements 6.0
	Adobe PhotoShop Elements 5.0
**Portable Document File (PDF) Creation Tool	Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.0
	Adobe Acrobat 7.0

* Software packages identified with a single asterisk (*) are required on all new computer setups.

** Software packages identified with a double asterisk are optional and will be installed on new purchases only if requested.

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