enable administrator to configure All Apps profiles to exclude certain apps
Adobe has discontinued a number of products over the years: Animate, Dimension, and some others.
In our organization, we would like to restrict our user from using these applications, as they create potential support issues and security concerns.
For Single App users, we’ve removed the application profiles for these discontinued apps. But the apps remain available for install by our users with the All Apps license. We deploy Creative Cloud as a Self Service package, so our All Apps users have the ability to install every application, even those that have been discontinued.
As an administrator, I would like to have greater control over this, at the product profile level, to select/deselect the list of applications that are available to those All Apps users who have been assigned a given product profile.
I can foresee this being useful in a multitude of ways. Not only could we disable specific applications which we do not wish to support, such as the discontinued products as I mentioned above. But we could create bundles that are specific to a particular role or profession, so we can bundle and deploy an All Apps license that has just those applications useful for, for example, Video Production, or Print Publishing, or Graphic Design, for example, and this would enable us to deploy the specific apps that a user in such role needs, and realize a cost savings vs. assigning multiple Single App licenses to the user’s account, while still controlling the user’s access to the suite such that they only have the ability to install and use those apps that are specific to their role or job title.
