Log in to the Admin Console and navigate to Packages > Preferences.
- Adobe Enterprise & Teams: Administration guide
- Plan your deployment
- Basic concepts
- Deployment Guides
- Deploy Creative Cloud for education
- Deployment home
- K-12 Onboarding Wizard
- Simple setup
- Syncing Users
- Roster Sync K-12 (US)
- Key licensing concepts
- Deployment options
- Quick tips
- Approve Adobe apps in Google Admin Console
- Enable Adobe Express in Google Classroom
- Integration with Canvas LMS
- Integration with Blackboard Learn
- Configuring SSO for District Portals and LMSs
- Add users through Roster Sync
- Kivuto FAQ
- Primary and Secondary institution eligibility guidelines
- Set up your organization
- Identity types | Overview
- Set up identity | Overview
- Set up organization with Enterprise ID
- Setup Azure AD federation and sync
- Set up Google Federation and sync
- Set up organization with Microsoft ADFS
- Set up organization for District Portals and LMS
- Set up organization with other Identity providers
- SSO common questions and troubleshooting
- Manage your organization setup
- Manage users
- Overview
- Administrative roles
- User management strategies
- Assign licenses to a Teams user
- In-app user management for teams
- Add users with matching email domains
- Change user's identity type
- Manage user groups
- Manage directory users
- Manage developers
- Migrate existing users to the Adobe Admin Console
- Migrate user management to the Adobe Admin Console
- Overview
- Manage products and entitlements
- Manage products and product profiles
- Manage products
- Buy products and licenses
- Manage product profiles for enterprise users
- Manage automatic assignment rules
- Entitle users to train Firefly custom models
- Review product requests
- Manage self-service policies
- Manage app integrations
- Manage product permissions in the Admin Console
- Enable/disable services for a product profile
- Single App | Creative Cloud for enterprise
- Optional services
- Manage Shared Device licenses
- Manage products and product profiles
- Get started with Global Admin Console
- Adopt global administration
- Select your organization
- Manage organization hierarchy
- Manage product profiles
- Manage administrators
- Manage user groups
- Update organization policies
- Manage policy templates
- Allocate products to child organizations
- Execute pending jobs
- Explore insights
- Export or import organization structure
- Manage storage and assets
- Storage
- Asset migration
- Reclaim assets from a user
- Student asset migration | EDU only
- Manage services
- Adobe Stock
- Custom fonts
- Adobe Asset Link
- Adobe Acrobat Sign
- Creative Cloud for enterprise - free membership
- Deploy apps and updates
- Overview
- Create packages
- Customize packages
- Deploy Packages
- Manage updates
- Adobe Update Server Setup Tool (AUSST)
- Adobe Remote Update Manager (RUM)
- Troubleshoot
- Manage your Teams account
- Renewals
- Manage contracts
- Reports & logs
- Get help
Introduction
The Packages page in the Admin Console provides the following functionality. Use them when you plan to deploy Creative Cloud and Document Cloud applications to end users in your Enterprise.
- Download pre-configured packages by using Adobe Templates.
- Create customized Named User Licensing or Shared Device Licensing (for educational institutions) packages with the configuration and applications you want your end users to have.
- Enable email notifications, so you get notified when new product versions become available.
- View previous packages you or other administrators in your organization have created. Also, view details of a specific package and track available updates for the apps in the package.
- Download the IT tools like Remote Update Manager and Adobe Update Server Setup Tool.
- Download the Adobe Extension Manager command-line tool to install extensions and plug-ins from the ZXP file container format.
Creative Cloud Packager is no longer in development and no updates will be provided. We recommend that you use the create package workflows provided in the Adobe Admin Console.
See how to create Named User Licensing packages and Shared Device Licensing packages.
Using packages in the Admin Console
Tools
Download the Creative Cloud Packager, Adobe Extension Manager command-line tool, Adobe Update Server Setup Tool, or Remote Update Manager.
Log in to the Admin Console and navigate to Packages > Tools.
Creative Cloud Packager
Adobe Creative Cloud Packager makes it easy for you to create packages that contain Adobe Creative Cloud products and updates. These packages can then be deployed to the client machines in your organization.
For more information, see Packager.
Creative Cloud apps released on October 15, 2018 (Creative Cloud 2019) or later are not available in Creative Cloud Packager. For more information, see this document.
Adobe Update Server Setup Tool
Adobe Update Server Setup Tool allows you to set up an on-premise server that hosts Creative Cloud updates. It allows IT to save bandwidth and control when Updates become available for end users.
For more information, see Using Adobe Update Server Setup Tool.
Remote Update Manager
Remote Update Manager allows you to remotely call the updater on a client machine. It allows you to seamlessly manage when your client systems install updates. You can specify a particular product or update all products at the same time. When used with the Adobe Update Server Setup tool, the updates are pulled from your own premise server.
For more information, see Use Adobe Remote Update Manager.
Adobe Extension Manager command-line tool
The ExMan command-line tool allows the admin to install extensions and plug-ins from the ZXP file container format. When you create a package, you can select to include extensions or you can download the stand-alone tool for Mac or Windows.
Preferences
Set preferences for notifications, AUSST, and custom package directories.
Package preferences are local to the logged in Admin. That means, any preferences that you set, apply to you and the packages that you create.
Log in to the Admin Console and navigate to Packages > Preferences.
Notifications
You can choose to receive email notifications for updates available to any Creative Cloud products.
Select Available application versions to display app versions that do not receive security or feature updates.
While creating packages, select Show older versions in the Choose Apps screen.
While Adobe fully supports the latest version of apps, support for older versions is limited. Creative Cloud for enterprise plans also include a designated LTS version that receives security updates. Adobe recommends that you create packages with the latest or LTS versions of the apps. However, if you choose an older app version, see the Creative Cloud Support policy to know the extent to which Adobe provides support for it.
The Adobe Genuine Service (AGS) is a service that periodically verifies whether Adobe apps on machines are genuine and may notify you if they are not. Using Adobe software that is not genuine poses a risk for individuals and organizations as it is often modified, leading to issues such as:
- Increased risk of exposure to viruses and malware that can compromise your data
- Increased chances of the software not functioning correctly or failing completely.
Use this preference to ensure AGS is installed on your client machines as part of package installation.
- When this option is checked, AGS will be installed with any new packages you create.
- AGS will only be installed with named user and shared device license packages.
- If you deselect this option and create and deploy a package to a machine where AGS is already installed, previously installed versions of AGS will be automatically uninstalled.
Learn more in this Adobe Genuine for Business FAQ. |
Learn more about the Adobe Genuine Service. |
If you want to uninstall AGS, follow these procedures described in this article.
Internal Update Server
To configure an internal update server, download Adobe Update Server Setup Tool from the Tools section. Next, generate the override file, and paste its contents in the Internal Update Server box.
In the create package workflow, choose this option to redirect updates to the internal update server.
Bypass internal update server
Use this preference to ensure that, if your internal udpate servers is unavailable, your end-user compuers will get Adobe updates from the Adobe servers. Learn more.
Custom Install Directory
If the apps in your packages support custom install directories, specify the directory to which you want the packages to install these apps. For details, see Create packages.
Adobe Acrobat does not support custom install directories.
The directory path that you specify must be an absolute path. If you are creating a package to be deployed on Windows computers, specify the path that includes the drive letter. For example: C:\<folder path>.
Also, when creating a folder, you cannot use any of the characters that Windows does not support: \/:*?<>|.