AUSST overview

In an enterprise environment, you usually have many users who require various Adobe apps and updates. Each user is required to download and install the apps individually. Allowing all your end users to individually download and install apps from the Adobe servers will consume a sizeable amount of network bandwidth in your organization.

To address the issue of network bandwidth consumption, Adobe provides Adobe Update Server Setup Tool (AUSST). AUSST enables you to centralize the download of Adobe apps and updates to a server location.  After implementing AUSST, you can redirect your end users to download the Adobe apps and updates from the internal update server. This way, a single download from the Adobe servers is required for each app or update.

AUSST web server system requirements

The web server hosting AUSST is recommended to have the following configuration:

Deployment options

The following table lists the support of apps and updates for AUSST, RUM, and Creative Cloud desktop app: 

Why use AUSST

In an enterprise environment, you provide apps and updates to your end users via packages created in the Admin Console in different setups. In all the available setups, AUSST ensures that all apps and updates are downloaded once from the Adobe update servers and then served to your end users across the organization.

Install the Creative Cloud desktop app and allow end users to install apps and updates

If you create Self-service or managed packages with elevated privileges, your users will have access to the Creative Cloud desktop app. This allows the users to download install apps and updates (based on the package configuration options).

When you set up an internal update server, the apps and updates are downloaded each time you synchronize with the Adobe update server. End-user updates are downloaded from the internal update server once the configuration files are in place.

If you create product configuration groups when setting up user computers, only specified products are available (for install and update) from the Creative Cloud desktop app. For details about product configuration groups, see Maintain the internal update server.

Install apps and allow end users to install updates

If you create managed packages and enable the apps panel, your users can update apps via the Help > Updates menu from with the installed apps.

When you set up an internal update server, the apps and updates are downloaded once from the Adobe update servers. Thereafter, user updates are downloaded from the internal update server.

Install apps via packages and updates via Remote update manager

If you create Self-service or managed packages with elevated privileges, your users will have access to the Creative Cloud desktop app. It allows users to download install apps and updates (based on the package configuration options).

When you set up an internal update server, the apps and updates are downloaded once from the Adobe update servers. After you set up your end-user computers to use your internal update server, the apps and updates are downloaded from the internal server.

What happens if your internal update server is down?

By default, after you set up end-user computers to use your internal update server, the end-user computers receive Adobe updates from the interal update server. This implies that, if for some reason, your internal update server is unavailable, your end-user computers will not get Adobe updates.

Use the following preference to ensure that, if your internal update server is unavailable, your end-user computers receive Adobe updates from the Adobe servers.

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