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  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. Add users with matching email domains
    6. Change user's identity type
    7. Manage user groups
    8. Manage directory users
    9. Manage developers
    10. Migrate existing users to the Adobe Admin Console
    11. 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. Adobe templates for 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
      8. Adobe Creative Cloud licensing identifiers
    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. Use Adobe Remote Update Manager
      2. Resolve RUM errors
    8. Troubleshoot
      1. Troubleshoot Creative Cloud apps installation and uninstallation errors
      2. Query client machines to check if a package is deployed
      3. Creative Cloud package "Installation Failed" error message
  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
    9. Manage your team in Adobe Express
  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

Learn how system, product, product profile, and user group admins can manage users individually to entitle them to Adobe products and services.

To add, update, and remove user accounts, navigate to the Users tab in the Adobe Admin Console. Select a user to edit or remove, or select Add users to add new ones.

If you're a new Adobe enterprise or teams customer, we recommend that you decide your user management strategy before you start managing users in the Admin Console.

View user list

  1. Sign in to the Admin Console.

  2. On the Users tab, the users list displays the name, email address, ID type and products asisgned to each user. The ID type is how the user is authenticated, which depends on the following:

    • Federated ID (Applies to enterprise accounts): If you have claimed the email domain with which your users authenitcate their Adobe accounts and have set up your users to sign-in using SSO. Learn more.
    • Enterprise ID (Applies to enterprise accounts): If you have claimed the email domain with which your users authenitcate their Adobe accounts and haven't set up SSO. Learn more.
    • Adobe ID (Applies to teams or enterprise accounts): If you have not claimed the email domain or if your users authenicate with a public domain such as gmail.com.

    If there are more than 1000 users in your org, the list of users is not displayed. You can either use the search field to search for a user, or select View Users List to view the complete list.

  3. Select the View Details  icon to view the user's entitlements, including products, user groups, and administrative permissions.

Add users

  1. Go to the Admin Console, and select Add Users.

  2. Enter the email address of the user. Optionally, you can enter the user's first and last names.

    If you have claimed the domain of the email address of the user that you're adding, that user is added either as an Enterprise ID user or Federated ID user. This depends on whether the organization is set up as Enterprise ID or Federated ID on the Admin Console. If, however, you have not claimed the domain, the user is added as a Adobe ID user.

  3. Select the products or user groups to assign to the user. The list of products that displays, is based on the purchase plan of your organization. Read about how to manage products and product profiles on the Admin Console.

    Add users

  4. For enterprise accounts, select a product and select a profile for the product. For teams accounts, select the product to assign to the user. Read about how to manage products and product profiles on the Admin Console.

  5. To add the user to a user group, navigate to User Groups or select the Add   icon. Then, select the user groups. The products associated with the selected user groups are assigned to the user.

    Note:

    You can add up to ten users here. To add more, repeat the above steps after saving the changes.

  6. Select SaveThe user is added, and displays in the Users list.

    When signing in to their Adobe account, if a user has multiple Adobe plans associated with the same email address and at least one is a business plan, Adobe creates separate profiles for each plan and gives each profile dedicated storage. Learn more about how end-users can manage adobe profiles.

    If you assign an admin role or a Product Profile to users, they receive an email notification. Users must follow the link to complete their profile, if prompted.

Edit user details

As an administrator, you only have access to update details for users who belong to a domain that your organization owns. You cannot update details for users who belong to a domain that your organization trusts but does not own. You can modify the following details for a user:

  • User Groups and Products associated with the user
  • Administrative rights
  • Country
Note:
  • For Federated ID or Enterprise ID type users, user details can be changed using the Admin Console, Azure Sync, Google SyncUser Sync tool, or the User Management API. The changes take effect immediately, however, the user is not notified. If you change the email address for a user, inform the user to use the new email address to log in to the Adobe enterprise account.
  • For Federated ID type users, changes in the email address affect the user login only if email addresses have been used as the identifier in the SAML handoff between Adobe and the Identity Provider of the organization. If your organization is using email addresses in the handoff, then the change in email addresses has to be done simultaneously on both sides or users will be unable to log in to their enterprise accounts.
  1. In the Admin Console, navigate to Users Users.

  2. From the list of users, select the name of a user. Ensure that the hyperlink on the name is highlighted.

  3. In the User Details section, select Edit user profile.

    Edit user details menu

  4. Edit the products, user groups, and administrative rights associated with the user. Select the More Options  icon in the upper-right corner of the relevant section.

    Note:

    (For enterprises onlyAssigning a user group will also assign the associated product profiles to the user.

Remove users

Note:

Federated ID and Enterprise ID type users can also be removed using Azure SyncGoogle SyncUser Sync tool, or the User Management API.

  1. In the Admin Console, navigate to Users Users.

  2. From the list of users that displays, select the check box for the relevant users.

  3. Select Remove Users.

  4. If you are not an Education customer and your organization uses Adobe storage for business, you can do one of the following:

    • Transfer content now: Folder content is sent through email to a designated user. If you choose this option, specify the email address of the designated user that receives the content.
    • Transfer content later: The folder content remains in the Inactive User tab until it is permanently deleted.
    • Permanently delete content: The folder is permanently deleted with no option to retrieve the content.

    For more information, see reclaim the assets of the deleted user.

    If you're an Education customer, you will not see the above options. Which means that, when you delete an account, the student's assets are moved to Inactive Users tab. 

    To transfer the assets to a student who has left the organization, navigate to Storage > Inactive users, transfer the content to themselves or to some other user in the org (because the student is no longer part of the institution), the recipient needs to then download the assets (as zip files), and send the zip files to the student.

    Caution:

    If you’re removing Directory Users (Users > Directory Users) for security reasons, all references to the user’s name and email address are removed. Only a unique alphanumeric ID is retained in the Admin Console. When you reclaim such assets later, it may be difficult to identify deleted users in the Inactive users tab. It is recommended that you use the Transfer content now option. 

  5. In the Remove Users dialog box that displays, select Remove Users.

    The users are removed from the Admin Console, and all permissions and access to services conferred by the organization are revoked.

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