Creative Cloud on a Windows Domain

[afasoas]

Hi,

Quick question. Doing a job for a studio - migrating them from a Windows workgroup to a fully fledged domain.
There are ten full and part time staff. The business runs about 8 PCs (and possibly in the near future one iMac)

At the minute a few PCs are on CS4 and a couple are on CS5. I'm looking into rolling out Creative Cloud to two or three of the machines for the air-brushers to use.

I know Adobe offer a Creative Cloud server solution but I don't think it's worth going to that length for just two or three users.

If I install Creative Cloud on a couple PCs (and the iMac when it gets here) how's it going to play? Is it only going to run under the user account under which is was installed? Or can I install it using the local administrator account and find that anyone logged into the domain on that machine can still use the Creative Cloud software?

Anyone else with any experience of doing this?

Cheers
Dan

 

[Neilc28]

My understanding of it was that it is a per-install license-model for standard Creative Cloud (2 simultaneous installations per activations), so you would have one activation account, and then assign all of those subscriptions to that one account. If you wanted to look at per-user licensing, then that is "Creative Cloud for Teams".

I will try to find some clarification, but in each case where I have had this, it's literally been a sole user who has had the privilege of Photoshop, and no other users!

Besides, unless you are running roaming profiles or profile redirection, you can test this at home, simply take out a trial of CC, install it and activate, then create a secondary local profile, login to that account and see what Creative Cloud does regarding the activation status.

 

[neil_g]

we've got umpteen CC users on our domain, we've not bothered on anything beyond single instance installs for each machine as required. all are managed through our CC account on the adobe site. i cant find any info on "Creative Cloud server"?

typically if you have a different user on the same machine it will want to reactivate for that "new" user.

the most annoying bit is getting CC to pass its regular license checks through any corporate firewall.

 

[neil_g]

My understanding of it was that it is a per-install license-model for standard Creative Cloud (2 simultaneous installations per activations), so you would have one activation account, and then assign all of those subscriptions to that one account. If you wanted to look at per-user licensing, then that is "Creative Cloud for Teams".

I will try to find some clarification, but in each case where I have had this, it's literally been a sole user who has had the privilege of Photoshop, and no other users!

Besides, unless you are running roaming profiles or profile redirection, you can test this at home, simply take out a trial of CC, install it and activate, then create a secondary local profile, login to that account and see what Creative Cloud does regarding the activation status.

we have a main adobe CC logon, within the admin panel you can set up users and what apps are available to them where you enter their email address. they get an email asking for password to be set. they can then log in to CC adobe site and initiate download and install of the packages you have made available.

i dont believe we have "for teams"? doesnt ring a bell without signing in.

periodically those apps will need to check whether the account is still allowed to use the apps. this will need an internet connection and the original users login details entered. when signing in as a new windows user this activation check will also re-run requiring the original users login details.