Provide Experience Manager access to your Creative Cloud for enterprise users. Add Asset Link users to your Experience Manager environment product profile using the Admin Console. Each user then receives an email confirming access and can sign in to Experience Manager through Adobe Asset Link.
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Setup and onboarding
- Explore Adobe Admin Console
- Sign-in and access
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Plan your deployment
- Basic concepts
- Deployment Guides
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Deploy Creative Cloud for education
- Education Deployment Home
- Education Deployment K-12 Onboarding Wizard
- Education Deployment Simple Setup
- Education Deployment Setup With User Sync
- Education Deployment Setup with Roster Sync
- Education Deployment Key licensing Concepts
- Education Deployment Setup Concepts
- Education Deployment Quick Tips
- Approve Adobe apps in Google Admin Console
- Enable Adobe Express in Google Classroom
- Integrate Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Express with Canvas LMS
- Adobe Creative Cloud & Blackboard Learn
- Configuring SSO for District Portals and Learning Management Systems
- Roster syncing for license assignment with the Adobe Admin Console
- Kivuto FAQ
- Primary and Secondary Institution Eligibility Guidelines
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Licensing
- Licensing overview
- Licensing types
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Set up your organization
- Identity overview
- Set up identity and Single Sign-On
- Set up organization with Enterprise ID
- Setup Azure AD federation and sync
- Set up Google Federation and sync
- Configure Microsoft AD FS for use with Adobe SSO
- Configuring SSO for District Portals and Learning Management Systems
- Set up organization with other Identity providers
- SSO common questions and troubleshooting
- Set up Frame.io for enterprise
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Identity and SSO
- Set up identity
- Integrate with Microsoft Entra
- Integrate with Google Sync
- Integrate with other SSO providers
- Troubleshoot
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Manage your organization setup
- Manage existing directories and domains
- Enable automatic account creation
- Domain Enforcement for restricted authentication
- Set up organization via directory trust
- Migrate to a new authentication provider
- Asset settings
- Manage authentication settings
- Limit product access by IP addresses
- Privacy and security contacts
- Console settings
- Manage encryption
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Directories, domains, and access
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Directories and domains
- Create a directory for SAML identity providers
- Verify domain ownership
- Set up domains for directory authentication
- Move domains across directories
- Encrypted and trusted directory domain transfers
- Move directories between Admin Consoles
- Delete directories and domains
- Automatic account creation overview
- Enable automatic account creation
- Automatic federated account creation FAQ
- Domain enforcement
- Directory trusting
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Directories and domains
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Manage users
- Adobe Admin Console users
- Administrative roles
- Assign user roles for granular access control
- How to create custom roles
- Manage Frame.io account roles in Adobe Admin Console
- User management strategies
- Assign a license to teams user
- Team Management: Creative Cloud desktop app, Acrobat, Express
- Adobe's matching service
- Edit user identity type
- Manage user groups
- Manage directory users
- Exclude specific users from domain enforcement
- Manage developers
- Migrate existing users to the Adobe Admin Console
- Migrate Frame.io user management to the Adobe Admin Console
- Admin roles and hierarchy
- Enterprise admin permissions matrix
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Settings
- Asset settings
- Manage encryption
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Manage products and entitlements
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Manage products and product profiles
- Manage products on Admin Console
- Add products and licenses
- Manage product profiles for enterprise users
- Manage automatic assignment rules
- Adobe Express Photos FAQs for administrators
- Assign users to Firefly custom models
- Enable Shared Credits for your organization
- Manage product requests
- Manage self-service policies
- Manage app integrations
- Manage product permissions in the Admin Console
- Single App | Creative Cloud for enterprise
- Manage Shared Device licenses
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Manage products and product profiles
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User management
- Understand user management
- Manage users and groups
- Manage admins
- Manage user roles
- Migrate users
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Get started with Global Admin Console
- Adopt global administration
- Select an organization in the Global Admin Console
- Manage organization hierarchy
- Manage product profiles
- Manage administrators
- Manage user groups
- Create license assignment reports for multiple organizations
- Update organization policies
- Manage policy templates
- Allocate products to child organizations
- Execute pending jobs
- Download audit logs and export reports
- Export or import organization structure and product allocations
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Products and entitlements
- Manage products
- Manage product profiles
- Special programs plans
- Manage entitlements
- Manage automatic assignment
- Manage product access
- Manage self-service policies
- Manage app integrations
- Frame.io integration
- Manage product permissions
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Manage storage and assets
- Storage
- Manage projects
- Asset migration
- Reclaim assets from a user
- Student asset migration | EDU only
- Manage storage and assets
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Manage services
- Manage services in the Admin Console
- Configure services
- Optional services
- Adobe Stock
- Enable Shared Credits for your organization
- Custom fonts
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Adobe Asset Link
- Adobe Asset Link
- Adobe Asset Link Overview
- Create user group for Adobe Asset Link
- Configure Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service
- Deploy Adobe Asset Link
- Configure Adobe Experience Manager 6.x Assets for Adobe Asset Link
- Manage assets using Adobe Asset Link
- Adobe Asset Link for Adobe XD
- Troubleshoot Adobe Asset Link
- Known issues with Adobe Asset Link
- Adobe Acrobat Sign
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Deploy apps and updates
- Overview
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Create packages
- Packaging apps via the Admin Console
- Create Named User Licensing Packages
- Manage pre-generated packages
- Manage Packages
- Customize packages
- Deploy Packages
- Manage updates
- Adobe Update Server Setup Tool (AUSST)
- Adobe Remote Update Manager (RUM)
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Deploy apps and updates
- Prepare for deployment
- Manage pre-generated packages
- Create packages
- Customize end-user experience
- Deploy packages
- Use third-party deployment tools
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Manage Shared Device Licensing (SDL)
- Shared Device Licensing overview
- Deploy Shared Device Licensing
- Manage SDL profiles and user access
- Activate shared device licenses
- Use the Shared Device Licensing toolkit
- Recover shared device licenses
- Shared Device Licensing identity FAQ
- Shared Device Licensing deployment FAQ
- Shared Device Licensing access FAQ
- Known issues in Shared Device Licensing
- Adobe Update Server Setup Tool (AUSST)
- Adobe Remote Update Manager (RUM)
- Troubleshoot
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Manage your Teams account
- Manage your account
- Complimentary membership for team members
- Update payment details on your Teams account
- Download and email invoices
- Change the contract owner of your Teams account
- Change your Creative Cloud for teams plan
- Change reseller
- Cancel Creative Cloud for teams licenses
- Purchase Authorization Compliance
- Contracts and renewals
- Renewals
- Reports and logs
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Manage contracts
- Automated expiration stages for ETLA contracts
- Switching contract types within an existing Adobe Admin Console
- Manage trials and special offers
- Complimentary membership for team members
- Creative Cloud for enterprise - free membership
- Frame.io and Creative Cloud for teams and enterprise plans
- Value Incentive Plan (VIP) in China
- VIP Select Help
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Get started with Global Admin Console
- Get started
- Manage your organization
- Reports audit
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Get help
- Enterprise and teams | Contact Adobe Customer Care
- Support options
- Teams | Support and Expert Sessions
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General troubleshooting
- Microsoft Purview Information Protection support in Acrobat
- Use the Creative Cloud Cleaner tool to fix installation issues
- Fix app launch errors on Shared Device Licensing machines
- Technical support boundaries for virtualized or server-based environments
- Resolve trial and license expired errors
- Migrating to OAuth Server-to-Server Credentials
- Manage device authentication for Creative Cloud and Acrobat Pro
- Enterprise | Support and Expert Sessions
Configure Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service
Last updated on
Aug 3, 2026
Learn how to configure Adobe Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service for use with the Adobe Asset Link extension for Creative Cloud apps.
Adobe Asset Link streamlines collaboration between creatives and marketers during content creation. It connects Adobe Experience Manager Assets and Experience Manager Assets Essentials with Creative Cloud desktop apps, so creative professionals can access, use, and modify content stored in Experience Manager Assets without leaving their apps.
Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service works with Adobe Asset Link out of the box, with easy automation for selective asset processing tailored to your organization. Experience Manager Assets Essentials is a SaaS solution for storing, managing, and discovering digital assets, and it integrates natively with other Adobe solutions.
Note
If you use a previous version of Experience Manager Assets, see Configure Experience Manager 6.4 or 6.5 for Adobe Asset Link.
Before you begin
Configure Experience Manager with an Experience Manager administrator account. Before you start, make sure you have:
- The user group you created for Adobe Asset Link. Note its name, because it maps to a synced group in Experience Manager, and it must not match the name of an existing Experience Manager group.
- Your organization ID from the Admin Console URL (the value ending in @AdobeOrg), which links Experience Manager to the Adobe Identity Management System (IMS). For Experience Manager as a Cloud Service, this connection is established automatically through common cloud infrastructure; the organization ID is primarily needed for Experience Manager 6.x.
Configure user access
Common cloud infrastructure for user management and authentication across Experience Manager as a Cloud Service and Creative Cloud allows seamless administration of the services, users, and permissions. An Experience Manager administrator completes these tasks:
Grant permissions to Assets content. Ensure the user groups your Asset Link users belong to have the necessary permissions in the Experience Manager Security Console. Groups from the Admin Console appear in Experience Manager as profiles, so ensure they have access to content under the /content/dam path. Typically, add the user group to the standard DAM Users group, which has default permissions for Assets users. Configure more specific permissions as your business needs require.
Configure optional functionality in Experience Manager, such as post-processing workflows, for-placement-only (FPO) renditions for InDesign, and Adobe Stock integration.
Note
When a Creative Cloud user signs in to the Asset Link panel, it connects to the available Experience Manager account automatically. If the user is entitled to more than one Assets account, a list appears so they can choose.
Organization administrators use the Admin Console to manage users and user groups. To manage users of Assets Essentials through the Admin Console, see deploy Essentials and add users.
Generate for-placement-only (FPO) renditions for InDesign
When placing large assets from Experience Manager into InDesign documents, a creative professional may wait a long time after placing an asset and be blocked from using InDesign while it loads. This interrupts the creative flow. To avoid this, Experience Manager can place a small for-placement-only (FPO) rendition first. When the final output is required, for example, for print and publishing, the original full-resolution asset replaces the temporary rendition in the background. This asynchronous update speeds up the design process without hindering the creative flow.
FPO renditions have a small file size but the same aspect ratio. If an FPO rendition is unavailable for an asset, InDesign uses the original asset instead, so the workflow continues without interruption. Experience Manager as a Cloud Service uses cloud-native asset microservices to generate FPO renditions for both newly uploaded and existing assets. See Generate FPO renditions.
Configure Adobe Stock
Integrate your Adobe Stock for enterprise plan with Assets so licensed assets are broadly available for creative and marketing projects, with the asset management capabilities of Experience Manager. This makes licensed high-quality assets, royalty-free photos, vectors, illustrations, videos, templates, and 3D assets available for your projects, and creative professionals can use them through the Asset Link panel. To integrate, see Adobe Stock assets in Assets.
Use visual or similarity search
Visual search lets you find visually similar assets in the Experience Manager Assets repository from the Adobe Asset Link panel. See how to search and use similar assets with Asset Link.
Tips and troubleshooting
Follow these best practices for a better experience:
- To generate FPO renditions for many assets or the entire repository, plan and run the workflows during low-traffic periods. Generating FPO renditions at scale is resource-intensive, and the Experience Manager servers need sufficient processing power and memory.
If you run into issues while configuring Experience Manager:
- If Creative Cloud users cannot check in checked-out assets, check the permissions assigned to the users or user groups, and ensure they have access to the required Experience Manager repository folders or assets.
- Contact your organization's partner or system integrator.
- For more, see Troubleshoot Adobe Asset Link.
