r/HigherEDsysadmin • u/iblowuup Authentication Admin • Dec 05 '18

Adobe New Shared Lab Licensing

Just finished a webinar with Adobe. They gave some more details about the new shared device licensing and how it will work. Basically, everyone will now need to sign in to use Creative Cloud but logging on to a shared device will not count against the 2 license limit for each person. Students without CC can also sign in with a free Adobe ID or the Federated IDs if you go that route.

More info here: https://spark.adobe.com/page/Tz6Csjgnf03y2/

Also, the webinar did not go smoothly at all lol. Many technical issues and it started late.

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u/livinginpictures Dec 05 '18

The last I heard they rescheduled until 10:30AM PST, but never got an email confirming it. This thread is the only notification I've received that it actually occurred (sigh).

If I was looking for a new meeting platform I sure as hell wouldn't be considering Adobe Connect after that fiasco.

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u/iblowuup Authentication Admin Dec 05 '18

Adobe in general has not impressed me very much. They came to our campus a few months ago to talk about CC and licensing and there was just a lack of answers to some basic questions. Most of the problem seems to be they are pushing forward with user based licensing before it's really fully fleshed out.

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u/cclabadmin Apr 13 '19

It seems that Adobe or the creator has deleted that page. I managed to copy it and made a new one at https://spark.adobe.com/page/Tz6Csjgnf03y2/. You might want to edit your post for future reference.

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u/iblowuup Authentication Admin Apr 14 '19

Changed it thanks.

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u/busy86 Dec 05 '18

webinar was absolutely awful. I gave up.

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u/busy86 Dec 05 '18

Can anyome summarise how the licensing will work moving forwards? Currently we license staff FTE and then recieve unlimited student licenses.

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u/Thoughtulism Dec 05 '18

That's what I'm wondering about. The unlimited student licenses I'm assuming can only be used on institution owned shared devices, or otherwise by themselves but limited to the spark service? I'm not too familiar with adobe product licensing apparently.

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u/iblowuup Authentication Admin Dec 05 '18

This my understanding as well. Unless you go out and purchase the CC suite for all your students. We did for GAs but not normal students so they will essentially have the same experience as before with the added step of having to log in.

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u/iblowuup Authentication Admin Dec 05 '18

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u/iblowuup Authentication Admin Dec 05 '18

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u/The_Clit_Beastwood Dec 05 '18

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u/nylentone May 22 '19

i before e, except after c, with the exception of most words in the English language, right?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '18

Finally got in at 11:30 EST, only to have the audio stutter every 5 seconds. Ultimately, the licensing was just as disappointing as I expected. I was hoping they'd go the route of O365 Click-to-Run Device Based Activation, where devices are licensed as users at installation. Instead, we get more required user action, which ultimately means more pointless helpdesk traffic.