Filter Adobe apps with AUSST

Use AUSST filtering to restrict available applications to specific workstation groups or limit downloads to application versions.

Create a filter file

Define AUSST apps and versions downloads using a filter file. A filter is defined by a group name and a list of applications and (optionally) version numbers. If you only include the app names, all available versions are downloaded, while specifying versions downloads only selected major releases.

If your end-user workstations run the latest major versions of the Creative Cloud applications, you can synchronize only this year's updates to free up storage on your AUSST server. The following examples are for the XML files that define the filters.

Filter by application

Specifying only the application names will download all available versions of those applications. This is useful if you have a wide variety of specific Creative Cloud application versions in use within your organization.

<Filters>

<Filter>

<GroupName>PS+AI</GroupName>

<FilterValue>PHSP,ILST</FilterValue>

</Filter>

</Filters>

Filter by application and version for different departments

Version numbers are the major base version that will be downloaded for the application. In this example, all available Photoshop and Illustrator versions from the 2023 and 2022 releases will be downloaded:

<Filters>

<Filter>

<GroupName>Design</GroupName>

<FilterValue>PHSP#24.0,PHSP#23.0,ILST#27.0, ILST#26.0,IDSN#18.0,IDSN#17.0</FilterValue>

</Filter>

<Filter>

<GroupName>Video</GroupName>

<FilterValue>PPRO#23.0,PPRO#22.0,AEFT#23.0,AEFT#22.0,AUDT#23.0,AUDT#22.0</FilterValue>

</Filter>

</Filters>

Filter the latest versions of all applications

For a list of product codes and version numbers for the latest versions of these applications, check the Adobe Creative Cloud application base versions. The following examples display the Photoshop and Illustrator versions for download:

<Filters>

<Filter>

<GroupName>CC2023</GroupName>

<FilterValue>PHSP#24.0,ILST#27.0,AEFT#23.0,FLPR#23.0,AUDT#23.0,KBRG#14.0,CHAR#23.0,ESHR#3.0,DRWV#21.0,AICY#18.0,IDSN#18.0,LTRM#8.3,AME#23.0,PRLD#22.0,PPRO#23.0,SPRK</FilterValue>

</Filter>

</Filters>

Adobe XD (product code SPRK) provides more frequent significant updates. Therefore, avoid restricting to specific versions, since any list of version numbers will quickly go out of date. At the time of writing, all Adobe XD updates require about 4 GB of storage. On workstations where applications are already installed, these applications will be displayed in the Creative Cloud desktop application even if they are not specified in the filter file.

Filter products and updates

When you use AUSST for either fresh or incremental synchronization, you can choose which products and updates you want to download.

Use the --filterProducts option

Add the --filterProducts parameter to synchronization commands for downloading specific products (except Adobe Acrobat) or versions. Specify products as required using the SAP codes and keep them comma-separated:

AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool.exe --root="<absolute location of the download folder>" --incremental --filterProducts="<Comma-separated list of Product Sap Codes>"

Using After Effects (Sap Code: AEFT) as an example, download the given versions and updates.

• All versions and updates:

AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool.exe --root="<absolute location of the download folder>" --incremental --filterProducts="AEFT"

• All updates of version 16.0:

AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool.exe --root="<absolute location of the download folder>" --incremental --filterProducts="AEFT#16.0"

• Update 16.1.3 of version 16:
  AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool.exe --root="<absolute location of the download folder>" --incremental --filterProducts="AEFT#16.0#16.1.3"
• Update 16.0.1 version 16.0 of After Effects, along with all versions of Photoshop (Sap Code: PHSP):
  AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool.exe --root="<absolute location of the download folder>" --incremental --filterProducts="AEFT#16.0#16.0.1,PHSP"

Using the --filterFilePath option

For complex filters with multiple products and versions, create a filterConfig.xml file and use the: --filterFilePath. Then, include the details in a filterConfig.xml file as shown in the following path:

AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool.exe --root="<absolute location of the download folder>" --incremental --filterFilePath="<absolute location of filterConfig.xml>"

For example:

Create a filter to download update 16.0.1 of After Effects 16.0 and the latest version of Photoshop:

<Filters>

<Filter>

<GroupName/>

<FilterValue>AEFT#16.0#16.0.1,PHSP</FilterValue>

</Filter>

</Filters>

Create product groups

Define your product groups based on the products and updates required by different groups of users. Each group of users can access their own respective product group.

Define product groups

You can create product groups by using one of the two options:

• --filterProducts option
• --filterFilePath option

Using the --filterProducts option

AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool.exe --root="<absolute location of the download folder>" --incremental --filterProducts="<group name>(<Comma-separated list of Product Sap Codes>)|<group name>(<Comma-separated list of Product Sap Codes>)"

Create two groups, named g1 and g2, which filter the following products and updates, for example: Using After Effects (Sap Code: AEFT) and Photoshop (Sap Code: PHSP). 

AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool.exe --root="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\DynamicViews" --incremental --filterProducts="g1(AEFT,PHSP#19.0#19.1.2)|g2(AEFT#16.0,PHSP)"

Using the --filterFilePath option

If you want to include multiple groups, products, and updates in a product filter, using the --filterProducts option can be cumbersome and difficult to maintain. Instead, you can define your product filters in a filterConfig.xml file and use the --filterFilePath.

AdobeUpdateServerSetupTool.exe --root="<absolute location of the download folder>" --incremental --filterFilePath="<absolute location of filterConfig.xml>"

FilterConfig.xml: Sample Structure

As in the earlier example, use --filterProducts to create a filter containing two groups: g1 and g2.

<Filters>

      <Filter>

            <GroupName>g1</GroupName>

            <FilterValue>AEFT,PHSP#19.0#19.1.2</FilterValue>

      </Filter>

      <Filter>

            <GroupName>g2</GroupName>

             <FilterValue>AEFT#16.0,PHSP</FilterValue>

      </Filter>

</Filters>