Adobe has launched new SSO integrations with Clever and ClassLink that allow teachers and students to sign in to Clever or ClassLink and access all of their favorite Adobe Education Creative tools directly from that portal. See announcement. For step-by-step instructions, see configure SSO for your District Portals and Learning Management Systems. ... View more

What's in for Teams and Enterprise users in the coming update of Creative Cloud desktop app?   A new update to the Creative Cloud desktop app will begin rolling out to Enterprise and Teams customers around late April 2021. With this update, the app shows improved messaging if the internal update server is unavailable. If the Creative Cloud Desktop App is unable to connect to your internal update server (AUSST), users are shown a message that the internal update server is unavailable.     Before this update, the Creative Cloud desktop app would show a spinning wheel and kept attempting to connect. To fix the error, ensure that the end-users are connected to the company's VPN where the AUSST server is located. Then, click Reload Apps.   To keep track of the new features in the Creative Cloud desktop app, bookmark Creative Cloud desktop app release notes for Teams and enterprise users. For information on how to contact your admin, see How do I contact my Adobe administrator? ... View more

You asked we listened! The Manage your Teams account page is new again! We have made the instructions on managing your contract details a bit more clearer, making it easier for you to learn how to use the Admin Console to add products, edit your payment details, manage invoices, change the contract owner, edit your team name, and view details of products and licenses in the current plan.   For additional information or feedback, post a comment below.     ... View more

If you are seeing notifications like these about your license expiring, read on to find more about it: Your Adobe Acrobat license expires on 1/12/2020. Please contact your administrator to continue using Acrobat without disruption.   Historically, Adobe issued serial numbers with our apps (i.e. Creative Suite, Creative Cloud for enterprise, Acrobat XI, Acrobat DC) to customers on Enterprise Term License Agreements (ETLAs). These serial numbers do have an expiration date. Once the expiration date has passed, the product will no longer work so it is important to plan your migration before your serial numbers expire. Ensure your end users have continued access to their Adobe apps and services.   Learn how to use the AdobeExpiryCheck tool to check if the volume serial numbers have expired or are expiring soon. If they have expired or are expiring soon, it is recommended that you re-serialize with a new serial number. ... View more

Adobe delivers updates, features, and new versions of apps as they become available. There are various options to deploy and deliver these apps and updates to your end-users. To help you decide which option to choose, we have formulated all the information here: Deploy and deliver apps and updates.   Following is a glimpse for you:         ... View more

The contract owner—previously referred to as Primary Admin—is an admin who purchased the Creative Cloud for teams subscription and set up the account. There can be only one contract owner on a team. And, in the Admin Console, only the contract owner can perform the following tasks: Change contract owner Edit payment details View billing history Download invoice   Change the contract owner: As a contract owner, you can transfer your responsibilities to another admin in the team. To change the contract owner, navigate to Admin Console > Account, click Change next to your name as the current contract owner. Learn more.   Become the contract owner: As a system admin, you can request to become the contract owner of your team. Learn more.   ... View more

With all the suggestions and ideas from you, Adobe has updated the look and feel of the Add Products workflow. The new experience offers a shopping cart experience for adding products to your VIP plan. It also provides an option to edit your payment method within the workflow, if you have purchased the Teams membership through Adobe.com.     ... View more

  Do you want to install a product, but the Creative Cloud desktop app prompts you to Try or Buy? Try signing out and signing back into the Creative Cloud desktop app. Learn more about how you can resolve trial and license expired errors.   For queries, feedback, and suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment below. ... View more

Adobe is here to support you.   Creative Cloud products are now permitted(*) in virtualized environments. Though we have conducted limited testing of some Creative Cloud products in virtualized or server-based environments, we still recommend that you test your workflows in an evaluation version of these products before deciding whether to use one of these products.    Adobe has collaborated with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Teradici, and NVIDIA to provide best practices for Adobe Creative Cloud for enterprise customers who deploy on VDI on remote cloud environments. These Best Practices Guides will be regularly updated as VDI technology advances. Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe After Effects, including Adobe Media Encoder and After Effects Render Engine are constantly being tested by Adobe in cooperation with each cloud vendor, enabling technology partners, third-party plug-in developers, and hardware peripheral providers. (*) Named User licensing can be deployed in a virtualized environment, whereas Shared Device License (SDL) is not permissible in a virtualized environment at this time. Adobe Acrobat DC supports virtual environments.   To learn more, see Technical support boundaries for virtualized or server-based environments. For queries, feedback, and suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment below. ... View more

  By integrating Spark and Creative Cloud with Canvas, Adobe is providing access to essential learning tools in an environment where teachers and students are already spending a great deal of their time managing assignments. Now, at schools that have Spark licenses, everyone can sign in and access Spark right from Canvas. Teachers can create assignments using Spark, starting with templates or open-ended web pages, videos, or graphics. At schools that have Creative Cloud licenses, teachers and students can access their Creative Cloud apps through Canvas as well. They can sign in, see the apps that are available to them, and get started on their creative journey.  To learn more, see Integrate Adobe Creative Cloud and Spark with Canvas LMS. For queries, feedback, and suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment below. ... View more

You can now search for tips and tutorials in the Adobe Help Center from within the Admin Console. To start using search, click the Help icon in the upper right corner. The drawer that opens has popular workflows listed, that you can select from, and perform them as you go. For details and instructions, you can look for tutorials using the search bar. To learn more, see our document on the Adobe Admin Console.   ... View more

Apart from using the Add users workflow in the Adobe Admin Console, there are two other ways that you can use to add users to your org. For Federated ID or Enterprise ID type users, you can automate the user management process using the User Sync tool, or the User Management API.   User Sync Tool Adobe provides a no-coding solution, the User Sync Tool, enabling enterprise organizations to manage your Adobe user base and Adobe product access via Active Directory or openLDAP. Using the User Sync Tool, you can sync the user and group information from your organization’s enterprise directory system (such as an Active Directory or other LDAP systems) to your organization’s directory in the Adobe Admin Console. Learn more about the User Sync tool.       User Management API The Adobe User Management REST API gives you programmatic access to users, groups, and entitlements for Adobe products and services. With the Adobe User Management API, Enterprise customers can automatically provision users, synchronize user directories, and grant and remove access to Adobe products from a central management application. Learn more about the User Management API.   For queries, feedback, and suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment below.   ... View more

Are you a teacher having trouble getting started with Adobe applications? Your troubles will be all gone with these flyers and one-pagers that you can send home to parents and keep as physical resources in your classroom for reference. You can also make these resources accessible in your help center as part of helping IT admins deploy their tools in the classroom.   These flyers will help you and your students get the most from Spark and Creative Cloud, in the classroom and at home.   Download the Handouts ... View more

  The November release is here with the next generation of Creative Cloud, new products, features and services that will help everyone thrive in this new age of creativity. To get your organization or team members access to these new features, do the following: For self-service packages, update to the latest versions of Creative Cloud apps using the Creative Cloud Desktop app. For managed deployments, update your packages or create a new package and deploy them inside your organization.   Check out some of the new features of Design & Web apps highlighted below: Adobe Fresco: We expanded our revolutionary painting and drawing app onto select Microsoft Surface devices and Wacom MobileStudios. Fresco lets you create with infinitely scalable vector brushes, versatile Photoshop brushes, and Live Brushes, which recreate the look and behavior of oil and watercolor paints in amazingly lifelike ways. Learn more.   Adobe XD: The pinnacle of collaboration is the ability to have multiple people editing a project at the same time. The latest release of Adobe XD includes a new beta live co-editing feature that allows teams to do just that, making working together on a project as seamless and efficient as possible. Learn more.   Illustrator: We’ve rearchitected Illustrator under the hood, so that large, complex files with multiple artboards save more than 2x faster. Effects like drop shadows and gaussian blurs render faster. With spell check, now you have the option to turn on indicators to alert you of spelling errors as you type. If you work with complex paths, we’ve also updated the Path Simplification feature so it removes unnecessary anchor points efficiently while maintaining the paths’ integrity. Learn more.   InDesign:  InDesign’s November release brings key updates that many users have been asking for. InDesign will now support SVG file formats. You can now be able to use infinitely customizable fonts or Variable Fonts within InDesign. And if you’ve been looking for a more efficient way to place lines, or “rules”  between columns of text will now have an automated, painless way to do so. Learn more.   Animate: The redesigned user interface makes Animate 20.0 simple to use and empowers you to express your creativity. The touch-friendly interface includes an enhanced Properties panel, a personalizable toolbar, a modern timeline, and more. We’ve also added the ability to export complete or part of animation to any video format. Learn More.   Dreamweaver: Dreamweaver is powered by a modern code editor and visual editing aids based on CEF. With the new always editable Live View, you can start with a blank document and build a page with minimal dependency on Code View or Design View for adding/editing HTML elements or applying styles. Code hints are now improved for better availability and accurate filtering logic. Learn more.   For details on what's new and what creative users are saying about the new updates, join the community discussions for Animate, XD, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Fresco, and InDesign. ... View more

  It's Adobe MAX time, your Adobe applications are once again packed with new features and enhancements. Launch your Adobe Creative Cloud desktop application, and look for updates to applications. We are sure you are going to love all these updates, and so are your organizations and teams. To give them access to all new stunning features, do the following: For self-service packages, update to the latest version of Creative Cloud apps using the Creative Cloud Desktop app. For managed deployments, update your packages or create a new package and deploy them inside your organization.   For details on what's new and what creative users are saying about the new updates, join the community discussions for InDesign, Premiere Pro, Animate, XD, Lightroom, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop. ... View more

You asked, we listened. With the latest updates to Shared Device Licensing, that shipped in October 2019, we’ve included some goodies. These updates are available to your users right away and reduce admin overheads associated with installing apps and updates. For more details, see What’s New in Shared Device Licenses. Now, when lab users sign in on a device activated with shared device licenses, a prominent banner is displayed, which indicates a shared device.   To allow lab users to update and install apps, you can now include the Creative Cloud Desktop app in your initial SDL deployment packages. To create a shared device license package, log in to the Admin Console, navigate to the Packages > Packages, and click Create a Package. For more details on how to create shared device license packages, see Create Shared Device Licensing packages.   For queries, feedback, and suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment below. ... View more

The Acrobat Customization Wizard DC streamlines the task of configuring (customizing) the installer prior to organization-wide deployment. For example, if you have a volume license, you do not need to register and personalize each copy of the product you install. You can customize the installer to not only skip the standard registration questions, but also accept the EULA and fill in your organization name automatically. Other options include: Leverage existing deployments by copying enterprise files and registry configurations. Modify the registry (via the Registry Editor) and installer tables (via the Direct Editor) directly. Optimize the behaviour of the installer by setting up silent installation, pre-serialization, reboot options, languages, and so on. Remove previous versions of Reader and Acrobat.   The wizard allows you to disable online features, such as automatic updates and registration of software. Check the following link to learn how: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Wizard/online.html   You can even disable the welcome screen, using the following registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureLockDown] "bToggleFTE"=dword:00000001 Disable welcome screen: 1 disables the welcome screen in the corresponding product. ... View more