Licensing horror

Hi
I just took over program managing of Adobe installation and licensing at a school. We are at some volume licensing program that is expireing and is leaving us with CS6, thats fine. Right now I'm in the confusion phase. I've given it a couple of hours but not stumbled on any answers. Could someone shed a light of some basic questions. I know I'm probably getting into AAMME in order to make installations smoothly. No big deal. But how about
An Adobe ID is required to activate. Is that ID claiming a license in any way?
Maybe license count is tied to the license number, that is tied to our License agreement, upon activation? There has been activations done with different accounts, even by students themselves.
Must AAMME use the Program manager ID to work.
We are setting u a institutional Adobe ID by some recommendations, whats good about that?
As I said, confusion phase
Regards,
-Per Åberg
IT-tech
Sweden

Hi -Per Åberg,
Adobe ID is required to activate the CS 6 apps however it can be suppressed using AAMEE. You can create a package using Adobe application manager enterprise edition 3.1 and simply deploy on user's machines. An individual installation would require Adobe ID and password to authenticate the product.
Thanks,
Ashish

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If you have issue in using Windows 8.1 Pro in the software parallels in MAC?
About this issue, it is recommended to contact the related parallels support.
About the license issue, please read the following article about Buyer’s Guide and Microsoft software license agreement windows 8.1.
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/windows8-1.aspx
It is recommended to contact the phone support if you have license issue.
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
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