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Adobe Acrobat Sign Solutions - Small business feature Administrator

  1. Adobe Enterprise & Teams: Administration guide
  2. Plan your deployment
    1. Basic concepts
      1. Licensing
      2. Identity
      3. User management
      4. App deployment
      5. Admin Console overview
      6. Admin roles
    2. Deployment Guides
      1. Named User deployment guide
      2. SDL deployment guide
      3. Deploy Adobe Acrobat 
    3. Deploy Creative Cloud for education
      1. Deployment home
      2. K-12 Onboarding Wizard
      3. Simple setup
      4. Syncing Users
      5. Roster Sync K-12 (US)
      6. Key licensing concepts
      7. Deployment options
      8. Quick tips
      9. Approve Adobe apps in Google Admin Console
      10. Enable Adobe Express in Google Classroom
      11. Integration with Canvas LMS
      12. Integration with Blackboard Learn
      13. Configuring SSO for District Portals and LMSs
      14. Add users through Roster Sync
      15. Kivuto FAQ
      16. Primary and Secondary institution eligibility guidelines
  3. Set up your organization
    1. Identity types | Overview
    2. Set up identity | Overview
    3. Set up organization with Enterprise ID
    4. Setup Azure AD federation and sync
      1. Set up SSO with Microsoft via Azure OIDC
      2. Add Azure Sync to your directory
      3. Role sync for Education
      4. Azure Connector FAQ
    5. Set up Google Federation and sync
      1. Set up SSO with Google Federation
      2. Add Google Sync to your directory
      3. Google federation FAQ
    6. Set up organization with Microsoft ADFS
    7. Set up organization for District Portals and LMS
    8. Set up organization with other Identity providers
      1. Create a directory
      2. Verify ownership of a domain
      3. Add domains to directories
    9. SSO common questions and troubleshooting
      1. SSO Common questions
      2. SSO Troubleshooting
      3. Education common questions
  4. Manage your organization setup
    1. Manage existing domains and directories
    2. Enable automatic account creation
    3. Set up organization via directory trust
    4. Migrate to a new authentication provider 
    5. Asset settings
    6. Authentication settings
    7. Privacy and security contacts
    8. Console settings
    9. Manage encryption  
  5. Manage users
    1. Overview
    2. Administrative roles
    3. User management strategies
      1. Manage users individually   
      2. Manage multiple users (Bulk CSV)
      3. User Sync tool (UST)
      4. Microsoft Azure Sync
      5. Google Federation Sync
    4. Assign licenses to a Teams user
    5. In-app user management for teams
      1. Manage your team in Adobe Express
      2. Manage your team in Adobe Acrobat
    6. Add users with matching email domains
    7. Change user's identity type
    8. Manage user groups
    9. Manage directory users
    10. Manage developers
    11. Migrate existing users to the Adobe Admin Console
    12. Migrate user management to the Adobe Admin Console
  6. Manage products and entitlements
    1. Manage products and product profiles
      1. Manage products
      2. Buy products and licenses
      3. Manage product profiles for enterprise users
      4. Manage automatic assignment rules
      5. Entitle users to train Firefly custom models
      6. Review product requests
      7. Manage self-service policies
      8. Manage app integrations
      9. Manage product permissions in the Admin Console  
      10. Enable/disable services for a product profile
      11. Single App | Creative Cloud for enterprise
      12. Optional services
    2. Manage Shared Device licenses
      1. What's new
      2. Deployment guide
      3. Create packages
      4. Recover licenses
      5. Manage profiles
      6. Licensing toolkit
      7. Shared Device Licensing FAQ
  7. Get started with Global Admin Console
    1. Adopt global administration
    2. Select your organization
    3. Manage organization hierarchy
    4. Manage product profiles
    5. Manage administrators
    6. Manage user groups
    7. Update organization policies
    8. Manage policy templates
    9. Allocate products to child organizations
    10. Execute pending jobs
    11. Explore insights
    12. Export or import organization structure
  8. Manage storage and assets
    1. Storage
      1. Manage enterprise storage
      2. Adobe Creative Cloud: Update to storage
      3. Manage Adobe storage
    2. Asset migration
      1. Automated Asset Migration
      2. Automated Asset Migration FAQ  
      3. Manage transferred assets
    3. Reclaim assets from a user
    4. Student asset migration | EDU only
      1. Automatic student asset migration
      2. Migrate your assets
  9. Manage services
    1. Adobe Stock
      1. Adobe Stock credit packs for teams
      2. Adobe Stock for enterprise
      3. Use Adobe Stock for enterprise
      4. Adobe Stock License Approval
    2. Custom fonts
    3. Adobe Asset Link
      1. Overview
      2. Create user group
      3. Configure Adobe Experience Manager Assets
      4. Configure and install Adobe Asset Link
      5. Manage assets
      6. Adobe Asset Link for XD
    4. Adobe Acrobat Sign
      1. Set up Adobe Acrobat Sign for enterprise or teams
      2. Adobe Acrobat Sign - Team feature Administrator
      3. Manage Adobe Acrobat Sign on the Admin Console
    5. Creative Cloud for enterprise - free membership
      1. Overview
  10. Deploy apps and updates
    1. Overview
      1. Deploy and deliver apps and updates
      2. Plan to deploy
      3. Prepare to deploy
    2. Create packages
      1. Package apps via the Admin Console
      2. Create Named User Licensing Packages
      3. Manage pre-generated packages
        1. Manage Adobe templates
        2. Manage Single-app packages
      4. Manage packages
      5. Manage device licenses
      6. Serial number licensing
    3. Customize packages
      1. Customize the Creative Cloud desktop app
      2. Include extensions in your package
    4. Deploy Packages 
      1. Deploy packages
      2. Deploy Adobe packages using Microsoft Intune
      3. Deploy Adobe packages with SCCM
      4. Deploy Adobe packages with ARD
      5. Install products in the Exceptions folder
      6. Uninstall Creative Cloud products
      7. Use Adobe provisioning toolkit enterprise edition
    5. Manage updates
      1. Change management for Adobe enterprise and teams customers
      2. Deploy updates
    6. Adobe Update Server Setup Tool (AUSST)
      1. AUSST Overview
      2. Set up the internal update server
      3. Maintain the internal update server
      4. Common use cases of AUSST   
      5. Troubleshoot the internal update server
    7. Adobe Remote Update Manager (RUM)
      1. Release notes
      2. Use Adobe Remote Update Manager
    8. Troubleshoot
      1. Troubleshoot Creative Cloud apps installation and uninstallation errors
      2. Query client machines to check if a package is deployed
  11. Manage your Teams account
    1. Overview
    2. Update payment details
    3. Manage invoices
    4. Change contract owner
    5. Change your plan
    6. Change reseller
    7. Cancel your plan
    8. Purchase Request compliance
  12. Renewals
    1. Teams membership: Renewals
    2. Enterprise in VIP: Renewals and compliance
  13. Manage contracts
    1. Automated expiration stages for ETLA contracts
    2. Switching contract types within an existing Adobe Admin Console
    3. Value Incentive Plan (VIP) in China
    4. VIP Select help
  14. Reports & logs
    1. Audit Log
    2. Assignment reports
    3. Content Logs
  15. Get help
    1. Contact Adobe Customer Care
    2. Support options for teams accounts
    3. Support options for enterprise accounts
    4. Support options for Experience Cloud

Applies to Creative Cloud for teams.

Quick help for users of Adobe Acrobat Sign
Quickly sign documents, prepare and send a document for signature, get multiple parties to sign a document, manage and track documents sent for signature. Sign in to get started,. 
Read the Quick start guide.

If you have purchased an Adobe Acrobat Sign Solutions for small business plan, use the Admin Console to manage users and entitlements associated with them. You can also assign multiple administrators to help manage your team or the functional behavior of Acrobat Sign.

For more information, see Manage Administrators.

Note:

If you have Document Cloud for business, Document Cloud for enterprise,
Adobe Acrobat Sign Solutions – Business or Adobe Acrobat Sign Solutions– Enterprise plans, see Adobe Acrobat Sign administration for more information.

Getting Started

To configure and administer the Acrobat Sign service, a user with an active license must be enabled with an administrative role.

Elevating a user to an account-level administrative role in Acrobat Sign requires an administrator in the Adobe Admin Console to either: 

  1. Log in to the Adobe Admin Console as an administrator

  2. On the Products tab, click on the Assign Users button located on the Acrobat Sign offering card

    Click Assign Users

  3. The Add users to this product page loads:

    • Type the email address or name of the user you want to enable
      • A list is displayed of the users in your account that match the string you type
      • If the string is unique within your account, an option to create a new user is provided
    • Choose the product role (authority level) for the user
    • Click Save
    Add user to Adobe Sign

  4. A success message displays when the user rights have been updated in the Admin Console and the user in Acrobat Sign is updated with the new role authority.

    Successful update

  1. Log in to the Adobe Admin Console as an administrator

  2. Navigate to the Acrobat Sign product page: Products > Document Cloud > Adobe Acrobat Sign Solutions for Small Business

  3. Identify the user you want to edit.

    • Click on the Product Role drop-down in the far right of the user record and set the desired authority level
    Navigate to the Adobe Sign product and edit user

  4. A success message displays when the user rights have been updated in the Admin Console and the user in Acrobat Sign is updated with the new role authority.

    Successful update

If you have many users to add or edit, you can upload a CSV file to make all of the changes programmatically.

Full details on bulk CSV upload feature can be found here >

Add or edit with a CSV file

CSV fields

Revoke Acrobat Sign Administrator Rights

To remove admin authority for the Acrobat Sign service from a user:

  1. Log in to the Adobe Admin Console as an administrator

  2. Navigate to the Acrobat Sign product: Products > Document Cloud > 
    Adobe Acrobat Sign Solutions for Small Business

  3. Find the user you want to remove admin authority from

    • Click the dropdown field on the far right of the user record
    • Select User
    Update the user

  4. A success message displays when the user rights have been updated in the Admin Console and the user in Acrobat Sign is updated with the new role authority.

To learn more about the features that a team admin can customize for the end-users, see Adobe Acrobat Sign Quick Start for New Accounts.

Error When Admin Assigns Seat to a User

There are certain cases that can prevent an admin from successfully delegating an "Adobe Acrobat Sign Solutions for Teams" seat to an end-user through the team admin console. A team admin might encounter an error like "The user cannot be assigned to this license. Learn more."

If you are getting this error, try delegating again using a different end-user email address, or Contact Support.

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