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March 19, 2020
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I need to check the last login time of users

  • March 19, 2020
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I'm the IT management guy from a large company, and we are using adobe ID to manage the license of PS and Adobe product, using user's company email address.

 

The problem is that I have assigned the product to user, but no following management is available. For example, is the user leaving the company, is he move to another position and no longer need to use adobe product?

 

One possible way is to check every account's last log time, if one account hasn't logged in for like one month, we are reasonable to believe that this guy does not use Adobe product any longer.

 

Do you have this interface or function to check such result? We only need to check specific set of users that is managed by me.

3 replies

sveinb12303114
Participant
August 12, 2024

I think adobe is afraid to facilitate the possibility for us system administrators to see who uses adobe. They are mostly profited by the fact that they collect license money from phantom users. The alternative is to look around for something else. Being too greedy can be punishing.

Kevin Stohlmeyer
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 13, 2024

@sveinb12303114 try and convince an IT security professional that a third-party cloud based service should have access to local users hardware/account information. You won't get very far. It's not Adobe being greedy - it's common sense. There are many other local server solutions that can track these types of requests internally without needing a cloud/external solution. Flexera is a great option.

Vikrant R
Inspiring
April 1, 2020

For your usecase, I'm thinking that since you're a large org, maybe you'll get better results using Enterprise IDs or Federated IDs/SSO. Infact, if you use SSO, you can link user management to your IdP, so that as users leave your org or change groups, the Directory changes  can reflect in the user and group assignments in the Adobe Admin Console. See https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/set-up-identity.html

Participant
March 31, 2021

This solution does not answer the question.

Would like to have logs for user access, license changes, etc.

Month ago Adobe removed a service from our product without notification, a log would allow Admins to see that the change happened with out visual inspection of each product.  Also if other Admins made changes.  Instead we had 100s of users contacting our service desk because the service stopped working.

icts20110865
Participant
August 19, 2021

I've been looking for this 'feature" myself.

 

The lack of insight into whether our subscriptions are being used (and how) appears to be an intentional obfuscation by Adobe.

If we had that information we could de-activate unused subs = fewer subs = >$-Adobe

It's not as if they don't have activity logs, they just won't won't share.

 

Dissapointing

Nikhil R Gupta
Legend
April 1, 2020

Hello,
Unfortunately, we do not have any such feature to check the user login logs.
Thanks,
Nikhil Gupta

Participant
December 17, 2020

Is this feature on any future roadmap?  It seems fairly basic and incredibly useful for IT managers.

 

Thanks