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Creative Cloud for enterprise - free membership

  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 enterprise.

Unlock the power of Adobe Express with the free membership. Assign it to everyone in your organization — marketing professionals, designers, internal communicators, and sales teams — at no extra cost.

To accept the offer, select Get Started on the Free Membership offer card in the Adobe Admin Console.

About the offer

If your organization has at least one Creative Cloud for enterprise subscription, you can assign the free membership to users.

Note:

If you are the administrator of a Creative Cloud for teams organization, all users added to your Adobe Admin Console get complimentary access to select Adobe products and services. Learn more about the complimentary membership for team members.

The Creative Cloud for enterprise - free membership includes the free version of Adobe Express and more. Single Sign-On (SSO) identity authentication ensures that all creative assets and projects created in the apps stay securely within the company.

Adobe Express is an easy-to-use, web-based tool that helps users put their best work forward and make content in a way that's simple, intuitive, and fast:

  • Turn boring text-heavy documents and PDFs into eye-catching collateral with quick and intuitive one-click edit features to resize images, remove backgrounds, and change texts. ​
  • ​Jumpstart the creation of social media content, flyers, and videos with thousands of professionally designed templates and design assets.​
  • ​Stay on-brand with easy access to approved design elements and logos for use across Adobe and Microsoft apps.
A graphic showing some beautiful templates and assets in Adobe Express that can be used for social media content, logos, and more.

Free membership also includes the following services to help users create and collaborate effectively:

Firefly instantly generates extraordinary results from a simple description with generative AI. Also, it's designed to be safe for commercial use.

Acrobat free online services help you securely view, share, fill out and sign, collaborate, annotate, and comment on PDFs on desktop, web, and mobile, as well as in integrations with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and other extensions.

Creative Cloud Libraries let you gather design elements for use within any Creative Cloud app so you can keep your work consistent by sharing the same elements throughout a project's lifecycle.

Adobe Stock free collection gives access to thousands of royalty-free photos, videos, illustrations, and vector graphics.

Creative Cloud assets allow access to Creative Cloud content where users can open, review, and comment on shared Indesign and XD files.

Adobe Fonts help business users find the perfect fonts for their projects including PDFs, design projects, video content, webpages, and more.

Empower your users with free membership

For users to benefit from free membership, you must first accept the offer and then assign it to all users in your organization.

1. Accept the offer

  1. Navigate to the Products tab in Adobe Admin Console.

  2. Under special offers, select Get started for the Free Membership offer.

    Note:

    All organizations with existing Creative Cloud for enterprise subscriptions are eligible for the offer. If you don't see the offer, contact your Adobe representative.

  3. Select Confirm to accept the offer after you've agreed to the terms.

After you accept the offer, it appears in the list of products and services. Select the product to view or update the associated product profiles, users, and administrators.

2. Assign users

After you accept the offer, assign users to a product profile associated with the offer.

Note:

You can only add users with an Enterprise ID or a Federated ID to free membership. For more information, see identity types.

  1. Navigate to the Products tab in the Admin Console.

  2. From the list of products and services, select Free Membership.

  3. Select the Creative Cloud for enterprise - free membership product profile and select Add User.

  4. On the Add Users screen, enter a username, user group, or email address. You can search for existing users or add a user by specifying a valid email address and filling in the information on the screen.
  5. Select SaveProduct assignments may take a few minutes to complete and assigned users get notified over email with instructions on how to get started.

To add multiple users, you can use any of the following methods:

  • Automate the user management for your Admin Console directory using Azure Sync or Google Sync.
  • Upload a list of users as a CSV file.  In the Product Profile column of the CSV file, enter the following text:
    Creative Cloud for enterprise - free membership
  • Use the User Sync tool to sync user and group information from your organization’s enterprise directory system.

You can also restrict or enable services that free membership users can access.

Note:

If a paid Creative Cloud for enterprise subscription entitles the user to 100GB of storage, adding 2GB of free storage from the Adobe Express free membership will give the user a total of 102GB of storage space.

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