Esri ArcGIS software is licensed with an Education Institution Agreement between the Mississippi Institutes of Higher Learning and Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. This agreement allows Esri products to be installed on any university-owned computer for academic (teaching and scholarly research) and administrative use (facilities management, campus safety, etc). Additionally, the agreement allows installation for academic use on personal devices for current students, faculty, and staff at no additional cost.
Legal Requirements:
Only active faculty, staff, and students at Mississippi State University are permitted to obtain this software. Faculty, staff, and students are required to remove the software when no longer affiliated with Mississippi State University.
Important:
To install this program, you will need Administrator access on your computer. On a University, ITS-supported computer, if you do not have administrator rights via AdminByRequest, you will have to ask your ITS Desktop Services Specialist to install ArcGIS Pro 3.3 for you. However, if you have administrator rights already via AdminByRequest, you can follow these instructions and afterwards, install ArcGIS 3.5.
If you want to apply for local administrator rights via AdminByRequest you can Submit a Request.
Licensing is now a CAS login instead of a concurrent license. Instructions included below.
Installation
- At the ITS site for the ArcGIS Pro 3.5 software, you will click on the option that best fits you.
- Faculty and Staff academic or administrative use (university-owned device)
- Faculty and Staff home use (personal device)
- Student use (personal device)
- Once the zip file is downloaded, extract all files to a new folder. Open that folder with the extracted files. Double-click on ArcGISPro_35_195271 to start the setup process. The destination folder can be left as the default. Click Extract.
- Click Next.
- Click Next.
- Accept the Master agreement and click Next.
- Make your choice and then click Next.
- Leave the feature selection and destination folder as the default. Click Next.
- Participation in the Esri User Experience Improvement program is completely voluntary. After making that selection, click Install.
Below, no action is required at this time.
- Check the box for Run ArcGIS Pro now. Click Finish.
Licensing
Note: This software requires you to be on campus with a network connection or VPN connected off campus.
- Open ArcGIS Pro. Under Sign in, click Msstate.
Note: If your window does not have the information included:
- Underneath the title of "Your ArcGIS organization's URL" type msstate.
- Click the check box beside Remember this URL. Click Continue.
- Log in with your NetID@msstate.edu email address and your MSU NetPassword. Click Login. You will also need to authenticate with Duo.
Downloading updates...
- When ArcGIS is first opened, click on Settings. If already in a project, click Project → About to find the Software Updates. Note: If you want updates to automatically install, check the box located under Software Update.
- Click Download Now. If there are updates, this will open the Download Manager
- You will be asked to install Optional Features. Make your choice and click OK.
- Download Manager requires a Master Agreement. Click I Agree.
- The updates will automatically start installing. After they are finished installing, the program will reopen.