OIT Supported Software

OIT Supported Software

OIT supports varied software for PC, Macintosh and UNIX. OIT aims to revise this list just prior to each fall semester but will update products as neccessary. OIT reserves the right to decrease support for products when vendors decrease their support for those products.

Please see the Site License page for any additional software and discounted site-licensed prices. Additional volume pricing is available from the Duke Computer Store.

 Support Software Symbols Key
 F  Full Support
  • Every effort made to resolve technical issues swiftly
  • In-depth functional knowledge of software
 L  Limited Support
  • Reasonable effort made to resolve issues swiflty
  • General functional knowledge of software
 R  Recommend for Students
  • Software recommended for student use
  • Departmental users should consult their local support
    for software recommendations
 

Operating Systems
 R  Windows Vista - SP2  F
   Windows XP- SP3  F
 R  Mac OS 10.4 & above  F
 R  CentOS 4 & 5  F
 

Web Browsers
 R  Firefox 3.0 & above  F
 R  Internet Explorer 7 & 8  F
 R  Safari 3 (Mac)  F
 

Email Clients
 R  Duke @Mail  F
   Duke Webmail classic  L
 R  Outlook Web Access  F
 R  Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 & above  F
 R  Mail for OS X 3.6 & above  F
 R  Entourage 2008
  F
 R  Microsoft Outlook 2007  F
   Microsoft Outlook 2003  F
   Mulberry 4.02 & above  L
   Alpine 2.00  L
   Windows Mail  L
   Pine 4.64  L
 R  NotifyLink 4.6 & up  F
 

Scheduling/Calendars
 R  dCal  F
 R  Exchange  F
 

Messaging
 R  Pidgin  L
   Pandion  L
   Adium  L
 

File Storage and Printing
 R  Webfiles  F
 R  WebDAV  F
 R  ePrint  F
 

Virus Protection and Spyware
 R  McAfee VirusScan 8.7i (PC) - SP1  F
 R  VirusScan 8.6.1 (Mac OS X)  F
 R  Spybot Search & Destroy (latest version)
  L
 R  Malwarebytes  L
 

Media Players
 R  Windows Media Player 11 & above  F
 R  Quicktime  F
 R  iTunes  F
 

Productivity Suites
 R   Microsoft Office 2007  L
 R   Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac  L
    Microsoft Office 2003  L
    Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac  L
 R   OpenOffice  L
 

SSH and Secure FTP clients
 R  FileZilla  F
 R  Putty  F
 R  Terminal for Mac OS X  F
 

Remote Connectivity
 R  Cisco VPN Client (v5.2 & above)  F
 R  X-Win32 9.2  L
 R  Apple X11 (Mac)  L
 R  Remote Desktop Connection Client  L
 

Miscellaneous Desktop Software
 R   Adobe Acrobat Reader  L
 R   Java Runtime Environment  L
 R   VMWare Fusion  L
 R  WinZip  L
 R  7zip  L
 

Miscellaneous Duke Applications
 R  Blackboard  F
 R  SISS (Peoplesoft Client / ACES Web / Storm)  F
   Advance  F
   Remedy  F
   SAP R/3  F