• Windows and Mac now licensed centrally.
  • Any exceptions?
  • Used to be only Windows done centrally. And Chemistry IT helped get Mac licenses for research groups.

Grabbed Jan. 2017:

• http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/software_licensing/available/autodesk.cfm#news

NEWS:

• 2016-09-26: Autodesk 2017 products are available for use by Cornell University students, instructors, and non-instructional staff at no cost.

[Students, faculty, and any other Cornell instructor can use Autodesk software on their Cornell- or personally-owned computers through Autodesk Educational Licensing.]

[Non-instructional staff can install Autodesk software onto Cornell-owned computers for Cornell institutional use. Autodesk has also generously granted Cornell University with a unique gift in kind that allows institutional use of the same suite of products on university-owned computers.]

• 2016-08-01: Autodesk 2016 products are available for use by Cornell University students, instructors, and non-instructional staff at no cost.

Some relevant Remedy ticket threads on this topic:

• INC000001850501 Autodesk 2017, free on Cornell-owned computers. January 06, 2017 (Chemistry IT)
• INC000001471495 Autodesk licensing change? August 26, 2015 (Chemistry IT)
• INC000001470263 AutoDesk 2016? August 25, 2015 (RITMG's Dave Botsch. CNF)