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DesktopAnywhere

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What is it?

DesktopAnywhere is a service allowing you to run certain applications from the University's suite at home, in study bedrooms, within labs, in fact anywhere you have a wireless, broadband or better network connection. Software doesn't have to be installed on your machine, it can be hosted on our servers where you can take advantage of our computing power and secured M drive storage.

What do I need to run it?

From Tuesday 16th June 2009, the DesktopAnywhere service will be configured to use Active Directory instead of the old Bangor directory. In order to use DesktopAnywhere, you will need to have changed your password as requested by the e-mails from the Active Directory project team.

DesktopAnywhere will work on any of Windows XP/Vista, Linux and Mac OSX. The only two pre-requisites are that you have Java installed and a web browser, which most people already have. Click here to download Java.

To see what's available on DesktopAnywhere, search in the Software Database.

The precise list of software will be dependant on you home department/academic school and your role within the University.

In addition, staff can connect to the “Bangor University Staff Desktop”. This gives you a connection to a computer which has Office, Firefox, Thunderbird and all the general software available and allows you to work as if you were sat at your desk, with full access to your M: and N: drives. This prevents the problem of having different versions of documents at home and at work, and also the risk of having sensitive work documents on your home computer. If you have specialist software installed on your office computer, we can even arrange for you to access that from home, but it has to be left switched on. Contact the IT Service Desk for advice.

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