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If you are planning on connecting to UMKC resources from home, there are a few things you will need:

Accessing Shared Drives From Home - Using the UMKC VPN connection it is possible to access shared drives from home.
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack - To help ensure that you can exchange documents between Microsoft Office releases (including Office 2007), Microsoft has developed a Compatibility Pack for the Office Word, Office Excel, and Office PowerPoint 2007 File Formats. This pack works on Office 2000, Office XP, and Office 2003!
Microsoft Remote Desktop - If you are UMKC faculty or staff and you would like to connect to your office computer from home you can do so with Microsoft's Remote Desktop (assuming your office computer is running Windows XP).
Personal Computer Purchases - UMKC faculty and staff can take advantage of additional savings on personal computer purchases. Both Dell and Apple offer attractive discounts to UMKC faculty and staff. Note: UMKC logon is required to access this website.
RooTools - RooTools is a collection of software and instruction sets designed to assist UMKC students, faculty and staff in connecting to UMKC resources, communicating with each other and protecting their personal computers. The student version comes with free virus protection!
UMKC VPN - The VPN Local Client provides a secure connection to UMKC network resources for computers running Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
Daylight Savings Time - Make sure your Windows computer is updated to reflect the new DST dates for 2007.

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