Dear NMC faculty and staff,
For those of you who have downloaded the Microsoft Office suite to your personal computers, you may have encountered a notice similar to the following:
This message is a result of recent licensing updates by Microsoft for educational institutions. Without delving into technical details, these changes have affected our ability to provide direct access to the downloaded applications for students, staff, and faculty. Most of you who registered their Office suite on personal devices did so under a license that previously offered full access. However, with Microsoft’s recent licensing adjustments, the current license that most of us are using now only allows access via the Office online applications (office.com), rather than the full desktop versions.
Please note that these licensing changes do not affect NMC-owned devices. If you use an NMC laptop or desktop, your existing license remains valid and unaffected.
Most of us use the Google suite of applications for our work, which we are not losing access to, and we encourage you to continue using. For those who require the desktop versions of Microsoft Office on personal devices, if you encounter a message indicating the application has been deactivated, please submit a helpdesk ticket or contact the help desk at (231) 995-3020 for assistance.
David Hosler
Director of Systems & LAN Management