Creative Cloud For Teams
Vilma Steiert
Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Teams bring creative work and teamwork together. With the Creative Cloud app for Microsoft Teams, designers can easily share their work, get feedback and stay up-to-date on actions taken on their assets all within Microsoft Teams.
Start collaborating on your Creative Cloud assets better today with Adobe Creative Cloud app for Microsoft Teams. The Adobe Creative Cloud app depends on authentication through Adobe ID for certain features. This allows users to access their secure account to share content with teams.
We're a team of 6 Concept Artists working remotely on collaborative projects. I'm looking for the optimal shared online storage solution for our creative files (paintings, sketches - mostly PSD, png, jpg, occasionnally a few After Effects and Video Files). Each artist should be able to access the works of others. This shared folder needs to be secured (we work on confidential projects), it should have file versioning (since you're never safe from file corruption or human error), support a complex folder hierarchy and it should be as straightforward to use as possible.
Up until now, we've been using Google Drive to do this (like a lot of creative teams, I think). It's great for file versioning and folder hierarchy, OK-ish for security - but it has its limitations in terms of user interface - and above all, it's not integrated with the Adobe Suite. It's for example impossible to preview Large PSDs whithout downloading them, and sometimes syncing while saving can lead to errors and even corrupted files.
With Adobe's recent efforts to promote Creative Cloud, moving to a comfortable 1TB of online storage space per user... I'm wondering. Is the Creative Cloud now robust enough for teams to share ALL their files on it, and to completely replace a separate cloud storage solution? And if so, how to go about it? I did a few tests and spent some time reading the available documentation, but I'm still struggling with whether we're supposed to use Cloud documents or Synced files.
Welcome to the community! Thanks for reaching out. I would like to inform you that collaboration through Adobe Creative Cloud allows you to share groups of assets from your Creative Cloud account with other Creative Cloud users and allows them to work cooperatively with those shared assets.
Effective IT asset management hinges on flexibility and accuracy. Organizations that can quickly transfer software or hardware between users can keep up with changes in projects, responsibilities, and personnel. The introduction of Adobe Creative Cloud with subscription-based licensing simplified software deployment and the delivery of updates, but the change also left some organizations confused regarding transfer rights.
For example, an organization contacted our Adobe specialists for support, as they struggled to transfer or reassign Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions from one user to another via Adobe.com. After investigating, we discovered that in each instance the software subscription was licensed for an individual instead of a team.
While Creative Cloud All Apps for individuals is perfect for small businesses or freelancers, Creative Cloud All Apps for teams is the optimal choice for creative groups within larger organizations. Teams licenses give management full access to an administrator console that allows them to add, transfer, or revoke licenses as needed.
In addition to managing all users under a single console, VIP offers an Enterprise option, as well as an Enterprise Pro option which includes unlimited Stock. Keep in mind, individual licenses do not offer an Enterprise option.
Enterprise is very similar to the Teams license, but this option offers more manageability and additional features in your admin console. The Enterprise edition permits enterprise users to purchase and utilize single sign-on (SSO) for user authentication. Some other benefits of upgrading to VIP Enterprise include:
If you already purchased individual licenses from Adobe.com but you actually need teams licenses, it might not be too late. Organizations can migrate annual or monthly individual licenses purchased from Adobe.com to a team subscription within the first 30 days at no charge. To switch after 30 days, Adobe bills organizations 50 percent of the remaining contract obligation.
Although Adobe customer support handles the transition, SHI can assist with the cancellation and start of new VIP programs or transfer users to existing VIP suites. As the largest Adobe Enterprise reseller in North America, we offer a dedicated Adobe presales and operations team, a robust asset management practice, and support for global agreements.
I recently switched from an individual account into a Teams account. There are a few shared projects in which I wanted to upload licensed fonts into Creative Cloud using these instructions: -cloud/help/add-your-fonts-to-creative-cloud.html
However, when I follow them on the Creative Cloud app, I am greeted with an error message: "Looking for your custom or brand fonts? Your team's administrator can add fonts to your account through Creative Cloud so that you can use them on any desktop device. Please contact your administrator to take advantage of this Creative Cloud service."
As I contacted support, I was informed this is an enterprise-only feature. But, the article above indicates that creative cloud subscribers have access to this feature, and that enterprise clients have a different process.
I supposed this is both a question and feedback. I just want to verify I'm not missing something. It's certainly not the end of the world, we can share fonts to local libraries easily. But I just think the page above needs to either be updated or removed if it truly is only for Enterprise, as well as adjusting the copy of the error message to not say "team's administrator" if it is really an enterprise administrator.
I think we managed to resolve this for you, and others who might have potentially encountered this situation. Can you please sign out and then sign back in to the Creative Cloud desktop app and see if you have the Add custom fonts option available. Alternatively, you can Relaunch the Creative Cloud desktop app: Command+Option+R or Ctrl+Alt+R
Hi, I have the same problem with our teams subscription, I was told that teams subscription does not have access to this feature, but I see that it can be fix, I have tried those steps and didn't work for me. CAn you help me?
Was there ever a resolution for this? Having exactly the same problem. Force reload was no help and support told me this feature was only for Enterprise, while the documentation shows it is a feature of Teams and Enterprise.
Hi all, I've recently joined a new organisation as a digital design lead. My team of designers and video editors are spread across two different cities, so we need a cloud-based file storage system that we can access from anywhere.
1. Due to files being owned by individual team members, the only way to access another person's work is by them sharing the folder with you. This leads to a chaotic jumble of folders in the "Shared with Me" tab, rather than one central location for everything (as you would have if using a local server). It also leads to access issues when staff are away sick or leave the organisation.
What I would like to have is something akin to a local server, where files are stored together and owned by the team rather than by individuals. Team members should be able to access all areas easily and quickly, although they might only sync their own current projects to their computer. This also needs to be able to support very large file sizes, not just as an archive but for daily work.
You have a choice of using the SharePoint storage built into Teams, or having a separately administered SharePoint site which is linked to your Team. You can have multiple Teams linked to external SharePoints.
SharePoint folders (document libraries) may be synced to your local computer just like OneDrive folders. You also get extra flexibility to split up files into different document libraries with different permission sets, including say the ability to make some files read-only to specific audiences.
@Mike Williams Thanks for your reply. For the purposes of saving local hard disk space, will team members be able to selectively sync specific folders, but also access the other folders when needed? How much lag should I expect when accessing un-synced files?
@dz1na SharePoint sync works through the OneDrive sync client, so you shouldn't see any performance difference, other things being equal. Performance is going to be largely due to your internet speeds and local client machine capability.
Again, having multiple people working from a single OneDrive account is NOT desirable for all sorts of administrative reasons. Working from local sync files should be fine if your network performance is adequate, but it will depend a bit on the nature of the files you're working with. It's up to you to test that this will meet your requirements.
I definitely want multiple people working from one shared location, this is big for us as we are trying to encourage collaboration and consistency, and tidy up a lot of chaos caused by individual people sharing individual folders without any clear view of the entire team's work. If Microsoft can't offer that solution I will need to look at alternatives; that's why I'm asking these questions.
@dz1na Use SharePoint/Teams as first suggested. The platform has been evolving for twenty years and has many powerful features. You are not going to learn 1% of it from reading forum posts. There is a wealth of published and free training material for you to dive into.
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