Configuration guide: Adobe Acrobat licensing
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This library pack is designed to assist in the investigation of the presence and usage of the Adobe Acrobat application across your environment. It also aims to help optimize licensing costs by removing any unused copies and downgrading Pro editions where necessary.
This library pack contains the following content and dependencies:
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To effectively use this library pack, the content must be installed and configured appropriately. Below are some suggested steps to install and configure the content properly before use.
Go to the Nexthink Library and install all required content.
Navigate to the Managing Remote Actions administration page to review and edit your remote actions.
We recommend the following configurations for these remote actions:
The registry path for Adobe Acrobat may vary depending on the edition and version of the application installed on devices within an organization. For instance, the registry path for Adobe Acrobat Classic is as follows: Registry::\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\Classic\AVEntitlement
It is essential to ensure that the correct registry path for the Adobe Acrobat edition and version currently installed within your organization is specified. The necessary path can be determined by consulting the relevant version's documentation or by conducting a manual examination of the registry on a reference device.
This library pack contains one Engage campaign, "Adobe software usage assessment." This campaign asks users if they are using advanced features of the Pro version or if they want to downgrade to Standard.
This campaign should be modified before use to ensure that it matches corporate communication guidelines. Navigate to the Managing Campaigns administration page to review and edit this campaign.
Please ensure to:
Customize the sender name and image.
Review and adjust questions.
Publish the campaign when you are ready to use it.
Please note that this library pack requires manual configuration of the software metering rule for the Adobe Acrobat application. This software metering rule is necessary to provide you with visibility of Adobe Acrobat desktop focus time over the extended period of the past 90 days.
Navigate to the manage software metering rules administration page to review and create this software metering rule with the following settings:
The desktop_focus_time metric used in this dashboard requires manual configuration.
Please refer to the following guide for instructions on how to manually configure the desktop_focus_time in your tenant: Focus time metric configuration
Your content is now configured and ready to be used. For usage overview and recommendations, you can visit the usage guide:
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