Virtual desktop service (VDS)
The virtual desktop service (VDS) provides secure access to commonly used Windows applications and University filestores.
For the best experience in terms of speed and functionality, we recommend downloading and installing the client on a Windows or Mac computer.
Key features
- Connect from most devices, including managed University computers, personal Windows, Mac and Linux computers, Chromebooks, tablets and phones.
- Access commonly used software, including ABBYY Finereader, ArcGIS Pro, EndNote, MATLAB, Microsoft 365, NVivo, and SPSS.
- Staff can access University business applications, including Agresso, Kinetics and SITS.
Additional information
Software available
When you connect to the VDS, you will have access to the UniDesktop collection of commonly used software.
Staff also have access to a separate collection of specialised business applications.
UniDesktop (available to staff and students)
- ABBYY Finereader
- ACD/ Labs
- Anaconda (Python)
- ArcGIS Pro
- BioEdit
- BlueJ
- ChemDraw
- Chromas
- CLAN
- ClustalX2
- Corel PaintShop Pro
- CorelDraw
- enCIFer
- EndNote
- Equatio
- Eviews
- Firefox
- Gauss
- Gaussian 16w
- GaussView
- GNUPlot
- Google Chrome
- Google Drive
- GPower
- IGV
- ImageJ
- Inkscape
- LyX
- Maple
- Mathematica
- MathType
- Matlab
- Mega11
- Mercury
- MestReNova
- Microfit
- Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc)
- Microsoft Edge
- Notepad++
- Nvivo
- Origin
- OxMetrics
- Panoply
- PS Power
- PuTTY
- PyMol
- QGIS Desktop
- R
- Read & Write
- Reaper
- Refinitive Workspace
- RStudio
- Rtools
- Sibelius
- SigmaPlot
- Snapgene viewer
- SPSS Amos Graphics
- SPSS Statistics
- Staden Package
- StataMP
- Texmaker
- TeXworks
- Tinn-R
- Visual Studio Code
- Vu-Bar
- WinEdt
- WinSCP
- WITNESS Horizon
- X2Go
- Zotero
Business applications (only available to staff)
- Active Directory Users & Computers
- Agresso
- Agresso Report Engine
- Microsoft Excel
- HYMS Student Support (specific users only)
- Kinetics
- Sage
- SITS