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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. 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 & teams.

This document is targeted at organizations with existing Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Acrobat licenses through an Enterprise Term License Agreement (ETLA) or Value Incentive Plan (VIP) subscription that are migrating to a different Buying Program or license type.

Note:

If you're in North America and need help with your Annual Adobe VIP contract renewal from your Account Manager, email us at renewalhelp@adobe.com, and we'll contact you shortly.

To ensure no lapse in end-user product access, you must assign licenses in the Adobe Admin Console before the existing VIP subscription term ends.

  • For ETLA customers, please allow at least 30 days of product overlap.
     To ensure continued access to Adobe apps and services, complete the migration prior to the Anniversary date. For details on ETLA contract expiry, read this article. 
  • For VIP customers, please purchase licenses prior to your Anniversary date and assign licenses before the renewal window closes on your current VIP subscription term.
  • CLP or TLP customers can migrate from serialized Acrobat or Creative Suite to named-user licenses by following the migration instructions here.
Note:

If the license type of your organization changes, to continue working your end users will need to sign out of any Adobe product or service and then sign back in with the same credentials.

For desktop products such as Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, use the Sign out and Sign in options in the Help menu. On Adobe.com, use the icon in the upper-right corner to sign out and then sign back.

Current VIP members that have purchased Creative Cloud for enterprise or Acrobat (for enterprise) through VIP may quickly assign licenses during their renewal window using Quick License Assignment. Eligible Quick License Assignment customers meet the following criteria:

  • Products are the same
    1. The customer's renewal window is open (30 days before or after the VIP agreement anniversary date).
    2. The enterprise products on the order are new SKUs and are equivalent to the team versions of the products in the current term.
    3. The enterprise license order quantity is greater than or equal to the existing team license quantity.
  • Products are higher value
    1. The customer's renewal window is open.
    2. The enterprise products on the order are new SKUs that are "higher value" products than the team products in the current term.
    3. The enterprise license order quantity is greater than or equal to the existing team license quantity.
  • Quick License Assignment will not be available when
    • The quantity of enterprise licenses on the order is fewer than the number of existing team licenses.
    • The order is placed for "higher value" enterprise products than the team products in place, but the quantity of ordered enterprise licenses is fewer than the quantity of existing team licenses.
    • If the order is placed with mixed products—team and enterprise—regardless of the quantity.
    • If the customer already purchased team and enterprise products prior to the renewal period.
    • If enterprise renewal SKUs are used for the new enterprise order.
    • If the enterprise product order is for a different VIP agreement number.
    • If the current team products include products that do not have enterprise versions.

Once your organization’s enterprise purchase order has processed with Adobe, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions.

The email indicates the day you must transfer users from team licenses to enterprise licenses in the Admin Console before they lose access.

Within the Admin Console, you will be prompted to assign licenses using Quick License Assignment:

Confirm the number of licenses for assignment.

Confirm that the team product licenses that are being un-assigned match the enterprise licenses that are being assigned. 

You will receive an email confirmation when it’s complete.

Download the results report within the Admin Console to validate all licenses were assigned.

Your end-users will not experience a lapse in product service if complete before the specified date within your confirmation email.

Next, schedule your 1:1 onboarding call with and Adobe Onboarding Specialist (if you haven’t already) to learn about everything the Admin Console has to offer, like Administrative Roles and Identity.

Note:

Quick License Assignment does not migrate users with pending invitations in the Team Admin Console.

Assign licenses to users via bulk operation using a CSV template you download from the Admin Console. This scenario is for:

  • VIP customers that fall outside of the requirements for the Quick License Assignment 
  • VIP customers that need to assign licenses to users outside of their renewal window

  1. Once you get access to Admin Console and your licenses are added, navigate to Users > Users.

  2. Click  in the upper-right corner of the Users page, and choose Edit User Details by CSV from the drop-down list.

  3. In the Edit Users by CSV dialog box, click Download CSV template and choose Current user list.

    For a description of the fields in the downloaded file, see CSV File format.

  4. Add license assignments to the downloaded CSV file. Then, drag the updated CSV file to the Edit Users by CSV dialog box and click Upload.

    You will receive an email confirmation when it’s complete.

Download the results report within the Admin Console to validate all licenses were assigned.

Next, schedule your 1:1 onboarding call with and Adobe Onboarding Specialist (if you haven’t already) to learn about everything the Admin Console has to offer, like Administrative Roles and Identity.

If you currently have a VIP subscription and are migrating your users to ETLA, use the following bulk procedure to quickly migrate your users:

  1. Log into the Admin Console and navigate to the organization to which your VIP users belong.

  2. Navigate to Users > Users.

  3. Click  in the upper-right corner of the Users page, and choose Export users list to CSV.

  4. Navigate to the ETLA organization to which you want to migrate your VIP users.

  5. Navigate to Users > Users.

  6. Click Add Users by CSV.

  7. Click Download CSV template.

    To the downloaded CSV file, add the VIP users from the CSV file that you downloaded in Step 3, above.

  8. Upload the updated CSV file.

You will receive an email confirmation when your users are added to the ETLA organization.

Download the results report within the Console to validate all licenses were assigned.

Next, schedule your 1:1 onboarding call with and Adobe Onboarding Specialist (if you haven’t already) to learn about everything the Admin Console has to offer, like Administrative Roles and Identity.

For troubleshooting tips for bulk uploading to the Admin Console, see Troubleshoot bulk user upload.

If you currently have a ETLA subscription and are migrating your users to VIP, use the following bulk procedure to quickly migrate your users:

  1. Log into the Admin Console and navigate to the organization to which your ETLA users belong.

  2. Navigate to Users > Users.

  3.  

     

    Click  in the upper-right corner of the Users page, and choose Export users list to CSV.

  4. Navigate to the VIP organization to which you want to migrate your ETLA users.

  5. Navigate to Users > Users.

  6. Click Add Users by CSV.

  7. Click Download CSV template.

    To the downloaded CSV file, add ETLA VIP users from the CSV file that you downloaded in Step 3, above.

  8. Upload the updated CSV file.

You will receive an email confirmation when your users are added to the VIP organization.

Download the results report within the Console to validate all licenses were assigned.

Next, schedule your 1:1 onboarding call with and Adobe Onboarding Specialist (if you haven’t already) to learn about everything the Admin Console has to offer, like Administrative Roles and Identity.

For troubleshooting tips for bulk uploading to the Admin Console, see Troubleshoot bulk user upload.

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