Activation of Adobe Creative Cloud Software Licensed by Universities of Wisconsin ETLA
The best practice for all Creative Cloud applications, including Acrobat, is to license them with Named User Licensing or Shared Device Licensing.
Licensing overview from Adobe: https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/licensing.html#main-pars_accordion_container
Named User Licensing
- Named User Licensing requires users to log in with a UW/Adobe federated account with UW-Madison NetID/password.
- Eligible faculty and staff installing the software for their own use can follow this self-service procedure to download and install the Adobe ETLA software on both UW- and personally-owned devices. You should not install software on UW-owned computers without the approval of your department's IT staff.
- Students are not part of our site license but can apply for named access if they fit one of the following groups:
- Enrolled in a class that requires Adobe access
- Access is needed for a campus job
- Grad students
- IT Support staff who are Adobe deployment admins can build named-user installation packages with a variety of options in the Adobe Enterprise Admin Console.
- If you're IT staff and you want to be assigned the deployment admin role, please email adobe@g-groups.wisc.edu to get access.
Shared Device Licensing
- Shared Device Licensing is used for on-campus, UW-owned machines that will have more than one user. Users must log in, and can do so with their UW/Adobe federated ID, an Adobe ID linked to a purchased Creative Cloud subscription, or a free Adobe ID.
- All UW-Madison students have a UW/Adobe federated ID and can use that to access Creative Cloud on machines provisioned with Shared Device Licensing. Students were granted access by adding their NetIDs to the Adobe Spark for Higher-Ed product in the Adobe Enterprise Admin Console.
- Known issues with Spark/SDL access: https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/sdl-known-issues.html
- FAQ: https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/sdl-faq.html
- Shared Device Licensing 1.5 Update for Education ETLA Customers
- 07/2019 webinar on SDL: https://seminars.adobeconnect.com/p178gniwqkn1/
- A walk-through on creating SDL packages: https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/create-sdl-packages.html
- Login on an SDL machine does not use up any of a UW/Adobe federated ID's two permitted activations.
- Adobe has removed the 90-minute identity verification timeout that had been a part of all SDL installations.
- Adobe intends that SDL only be used on shared, UW-owned machines.
- While Adobe is not currently charging us for SDL installations, it's likely that at some point in the future they'll charge for every SDL installation in addition to the per-FTE fee we currently pay for the Adobe agreement. For that reason, it's important to keep SDL deployments to a minimum.
- All UW-Madison students have a UW/Adobe federated ID and can use that to access Creative Cloud on machines provisioned with Shared Device Licensing. Students were granted access by adding their NetIDs to the Adobe Spark for Higher-Ed product in the Adobe Enterprise Admin Console.
Serialized Licensing
- No longer available but we are including info here for historical reference
- In the past, Serialized Licensing was used to create anonymous installations that did not require login and were made with the Creative Cloud Packager (CCP). This is how most ETLA software was installed during the first two three-year terms of the Adobe agreement.