The Software Store expects to begin offering the following products to Vanderbilt departments by the end of October: •Acrobat XI •After Effects Creative Suite 6 •Audition Creative Suite 6 •Contribute 6.5 •eLearning Suite 6 •Fireworks Creati

Microsoft announced changes to the road maps of several Forefront products on September 12th. See http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/09/12/important-changes-to-forefront-product-roadmaps.aspx for details.

1.End of MD5 Support: See https://knowledge.geotrust.com/support/knowledge-base/index?page=content&id=AD302 for details. 2.2048-bit key size enforcement: All GeoTrust Enterprise SSL certificates expiring after December 31, 2013 must have 2048-bit or greater key sizes. After December 31, 2011, 1024-bit keys are only available for one (1) year certificates.

Mathworks released MATLAB 2012b on September 12th. Software Store customers with active MATLAB subscriptions qualify for a free upgrade to 2012b.

Thomson Reuters released EndNote X6 for Windows in early September. Customers who bought EndNote X5 for Windows through the Software Store on or after July 6, 2012 qualify for a free upgrade to X6. The Software Store provided a free download to eligible customers on September 20th. Thomson Reuters expects to release EndNote X6 for Mac to volume license customers by the end of October.

IBM released SPSS Statistics 21 during late August. Software Store customers with active SPSS subscriptions qualify for a free upgrade to SPSS 21.

GeoTrust will conduct a scheduled site upgrade and systems maintenance from 1 p.m. Saturday 29, 2012 through 2 a.m. Sunday September 30, 2012. During this time, the Software Store will not be able to create GeoTrust Enterprise SSL certificates for customers. The scheduled upgrade and systems maintenance does not affect existing GeoTrust Enterprise SSL certificates.

SAS Institute released 10.0.1 Updaters for JMP 10 and JMP Pro 10. See the Release Notes posted at http://support.sas.com/demosdownloads/000981/JMP_1001_release_notes.pdf for details on enhancements, bug fixes and new features included in 10.0.1. The Software Store provides the Updaters to current JMP subscribers and added the Updaters to the JMP download in the Software Store.

With the release of Mac OS X 10.8 (i.e. Mountain Lion), Apple requires Apple-approved developers to provide installers that digitally sign into Apple's new Gatekeeper authentication system. You may get an "unidentified developer" error message if you use an installer that was released before the Mountain Lion release date (i.e. before July 25, 2012). Wolfram Research, an Apple approved developer, updated its Mathematica 8.0.4 for Mac installer to sign into Apple's new authentication system.

Microsoft released Windows 8 Enterprise, Windows Server 2012 DataCenter and Windows Server 2012 Standard to volume license customers last month. Vanderbilt has access to these products through our Campus Agreement.