License Adobe before or after settingup user accounts?

Aloha all!
I've just purchased 25 device licenses for CC. They are going to be used in, you guessed it, as 25 seat lab (Macs). However, each machine has multiple user accounts. Will it be less of a headache if I license adobe on an administrative account before setting up the other user accounts, or am I going to end up having to license it for each account regardless?
In the event I have to license it for each account, could I shortcut the process by doing that on one machine, then using Migration Assistant to copy the accounts to other machines?
I expect that I'll have to physically sit at each machine in turn, logging into and out of user accounts, and authorizing each time. And I further expect that Adobe will force me to do this several times a year. Boy, would I be thrilled to be wrong!

You cannot use the migration assistant due to the specifics of the activation system. For the rest you may want to have a look at the Enterprise Deployment Guides and CC for Teams help files... The licensing is per user, not per machine, so all that matters is the Adobe ID provided on sign in regardless of who the actual user is as a real person.
Mylenium

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License Adobe before or after creating user accounts?

Aloha all!
I've just purchased 25 device licenses for CC. They are going to be used in, you guessed it, as 25 seat lab (Macs). However, each machine has multiple user accounts. Will it be less of a headache if I license adobe on an administrative account before setting up the other user accounts, or am I going to end up having to license it for each account regardless?
In the event I have to license it for each account, could I shortcut the process by doing that on one machine, then using Migration Assistant to copy the accounts to other machines?
I expect that I'll have to physically sit at each machine in turn, logging into and out of user accounts, and authorizing each time. And I further expect that Adobe will force me to do this several times a year. Boy, would I be thrilled to be wrong!
mahalo!
Tom G

You cannot use the migration assistant due to the specifics of the activation system. For the rest you may want to have a look at the Enterprise Deployment Guides and CC for Teams help files... The licensing is per user, not per machine, so all that matters is the Adobe ID provided on sign in regardless of who the actual user is as a real person.
Mylenium

Application Issues after deleting user account

I have an imac with several user accounts setup. two of the accounts are admin.
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User2 Admin
sysadmin Admin
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User4 User
User5 User
User6 User
User1 purchased a new macbook pro and we migrated all of her docs and applications to the macbook pro. after seeing that everything was working well, we deleted her old account on the imac from the "System Preferences/Accounts" tab from User2's account.
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Now when User2 tries to install or update applications, the system responds with a permissions error message. You do not have sufficient permissions to modify this application's settings. We also run into stange errors while just using some applications
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Is there anyway to change the settings for all applications to allow User2 (admin group) to update and install applications? Could I just change the ownership group for sysadmin directories to admin with Read & Write?
Thanks,
LeoK

Exactly what did you do to remove your old account? I hope you didn't just drag it to the Trash. If so then you don't have an account because dragging the old Home folder to the Trash is not how you remove an account.
You say you "edited" a new account. How did you do this?

How do I restrict Adobe CC to just my user account (Mac)?

Can anyone help with this please ...
I'm running Adobe CC on a 2010 iMac (OS X Yosemite). I'm delighted with it, however ...
Several family members share the same iMac using separate user accounts. Adobe CC seems to run for all of them which is annoying for them as they get messages about updates etc, plus it takes up unnecessary system resources (particularly as we tend to use 'switch user' and Activity Monitor shows an instance of Adobe CC running for each user).
How can I restrict Adobe CC to run just for my user account please?
Thanks in anticipation
Richard.

As far as I know, when you sign OUT of your Cloud account nobody will be able to use that account again until the user signs back IN
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After deleting user account / Unknown user is shown in information ...

After having some troubles with my account, I tried to get rid of it by deleting this account.
So I first edited a new one and after all I removed the old one.
Since this moment I have an UNKNOWN USER without having read/write-priviliges to my disk.
Unfortunately this user is not removable.
Does someone having this problem too?
Some hints about this matter?
Message was edited by: 3lm0

Exactly what did you do to remove your old account? I hope you didn't just drag it to the Trash. If so then you don't have an account because dragging the old Home folder to the Trash is not how you remove an account.
You say you "edited" a new account. How did you do this?

Difference between closing the connection before and after committing user transaction?

          I was wondering what's the difference between closing the connection before committing
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Hi. As long as you're sure there's a transaction going on, and the connection
is a transaction-aware object (from a TxDataSource), either will be fine.
In the first scenario the actual semantics of the close() call are less than
normal, because we really don't close the connection or return it to the
pool until the actual transaction commits, and in the second case, we have
already taken the connection out of your service as of the commit().
The second scenario is the usual coding style. If there's ever a chance your
code will get non-transaction-aware connections, it is crucial to close
connections, and I always recommend putting the close() in a finally block
so it's guaranteed to happen.
Joe
srinivas wrote:
I was wondering what's the difference between closing the connection before committing
the transaction versus closing the connection after committing the transaction?...
for e.g....
Scenario 1......... UserTransaction useretran; usertran.begin(); Connection con =
datasource.getCOnnection(); // do bunch of stuff... conn.close(); usertran.commit()
Scenario 2... UserTransaction useretran; usertran.begin(); Connection con = datasource.getCOnnection();
// do bunch of stuff... usertran.commit() conn.close();
thanks....
Srini

Before Firefox opens the User account control comes up and asks: Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer? Must hit yes for Firefox to open. This happens every time and adjusting the level of notification does not help.

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Thanks for the help I'll keep the info just in case - but I got so frustrated that I just deleted the program and then re downloaded the current version now everything works fine.

Activation--multiple User Accounts--same PC

After setting up a second user account on the same Windows 7 PC, I'm being asked by Adobe to activate LR3 for the new user account. It was already activated on the same PC upon installation, before this user account was created in Win7.
I don't want to have to use up both activations for two users on one PC. I don't understand why all user accounts on one PC shouldn't have access to one program. Or does re-entering the license key on the same PC not count as a second activation?
I suspect this is happening because I (perhaps erroneously) installed LR3 on the Administrators' account, instead of on a Standard user account. I really want to use it within standard user accounts. Is the request to activate related to Windows 7 ownership and permissions?
http://www.blogsdna.com/2159/how-to-take-ownership-grant-permissions-to-access-files-folde r-in-windows-7.htm
Can I reset ownership and permissions, as discussed in the above link, to fix this?
It seems one fix would be to uninstall LR3 from the PC and then reinstall it in the user account, but that's kind of a nuisance, and I wonder then if any additional new user accounts that still wanted to use LR3 would be asked to activate again..
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Thanks, Hal.
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I also have Photoshop CS5, and ironically, it did not ask for reactivation under my user or administrator account, but it's possible that I installed PS CS5 under the user account or after the user account was created, and that made the difference. Dunno.
I also searched this question on the Photoshop forum and I couldn't find any discussion of it, but a similar question was answered unofficially by another user who suggested that Adobe recognizes this situation from the identical hardware profile of the PC being activated a second time and doesn't count it as a second activation.
I gather many people don't bother with user accounts in Vista or Win 7 as long as they're the only user on the PC. Using a user account, rather than the administrator account for everyday use, is still recommended by Microsoft to protect the system files from malware. But it's a little confusing and awkward to set them up for users like me who are new to them.

What is wrong with my user account?? Why do I get kernel panic when restart

Hi there. I got Leopard and was quite unhappy (don't think it was meant for a powerbook). So I started using Tiger again, and I flip flopped once or twice after the update came out for Leopard, thinking/hoping it would fix my problems. It didn't. I have given up on Leopard.
But, now Tiger seems to have a few problems of its own. I get the kernel panic when I restart my computer (telling me to restart), so I have to hold down the power button to turn it off and then turn it back on. Not a big deal, but if it shouldn't be doing that, I don't want it to, ya know? Never did it before Leopard.
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Leopard will work with your Powerbook, the question is, is all your software and hardware ready for it?
Is there a way to do a reinstall of Tiger from a blank slate, and be sure there won't be any problems?
You can start from a blank slate, but if you have a hardware problem that started to generate itself, a blank slate won't solve it. It is called an erase and install. The first thing to do is backup your data*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
Once that is done at least twice, we can start looking at solutions for kernel panics*:
http://www.macmaps.com/kernelpanic.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation

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I have a solaris 11.1 x86 system running, where after recreating user accounts, so that they have a home dir, they lost smb/cifs access.
I ran the following cmds:
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passwd <username>
CIFS access was setup and worked before this change, using the solaris cifs server.
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I have added the line "*.debug /var/adm/messages" to the '/etc/syslog.conf' file.
This gives serveral errors of the format "date&time hostname smbsrv: [id xxxxxx kern.notice] NOTICE: [hostname\guest]: <sharename> bad path: /<zpool name>/<zfs name>
Any advice on how to restore smb access:)

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ITunes making duplicates in second user account

I hope I can describe my issue properly. First of all let me start off by telling everybody that I am a new Mac user making the switch from PC so please be patient with this Mac noob.
That being said, I proceeded to setup my new Mac with all the software that I wanted on it before adding an additional user account for my wife. I went through the process of moving my music library over to my account (64Gb) and importing it into my library. I have an iPhone so I am pretty familiar with the iTunes interface.
Once I felt I had everything on this Mac that I wanted, I created a user account on the Mac for my wife to login to and setup sharing for her in iTunes so that we could use the same media folder rather than have 2 physical copies of the media across 2 user accounts on the same computer.
My problem is that when I tell iTunes on her account to find the music, it adds it into her library twice so there is 2 of every song and iTunes shows that there is 128Gb music in her library even though I can only find 1 copy of any of the music on the hard drive.
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Yeah, my mail account only has google, before it had google and icloud but only one of each. I may not have explained it properly though. Mail doesn't seem to be the problem, 10.8 seperated Notes and the Mail app, they no longer appear in Mail, but if I were to go to gmail.com they show up as duplicates (and many of them). When I switched my notes to icloud only, and go to icloud.com, the notes seem fine... with no duplicaes. Yet, in the "On My Mac" section of the Notes app, there is a folder labeled Recovered Items... where nearly every time I access notes, the most recent edited note displays duplicates.
I appreciate your input though, and I double checked what you suggested, no luck yet. I could switch to evernote but I love the formatting of "Notes"

Does Time Machine work even with two user accounts?

For reasons of corrupted Preferences (i.e. plists) I had to create a new User Account (where I had to "recreate" all personal settings/preferences) and transfer my data to this new account. Until I have verified all data and settings over the next few days I don't want to delete the "old" User Account, as you will understand.
Before creating the new user account, I have used Time Machine to backup my data (to a 2GB external HD). My question is: since TimeMachine backs up a Computer and not a User, can I now continue to use TimeMachine and be able to switch between users when in TimeMachine?
I think that the answer will be Yes, but I just want to be a 100% sure that I am not overwriting anything on the 'old' user account.

Correct. All user accounts, permissions, etc., are backed-up separately.
Just as on your internal HD, one user, even an Admin user, won't normally have permission to see or restore a different user's files.

Corporate or multi-user accounts?

Hello,
Does Adobe offer corporate or multi-user accounts for the CreatePDF or ExportPDF services? In other words, the ability to create user accounts for employees to use. Ideally there would be a console from which we could provide or remove access to the system for users.
If so, is the pricing model the same or are there discounts available depending on the number of accounts purchased?
Thanks for any help in answering these questions.

The CreatePDF Team option is no longer offered by Adobe.
The monthly and annual subscriptions options for CreatePDF can be found here.
The annual subscription option for ExportPDF can be found here.

Document is licensed for a different user account - After Registering

I get the above message after downloading my eBooks directly to Adobe Digital editions. To start with I did not register the Adobe software to my AdobeID and could read the eBooks but after registering the Adobe software the eBooks are now unreadable and the message 'Document is licensed for a different user account' appears. I'm quite tech savvy but this is very frustrating after having spent £32 on books that I cannot now read legitimately!
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License Adobe before or after settingup user accounts?

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