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Identity overview

Applies to enterprise & teams.

Adobe’s identity management system helps admins create and manage user's access to applications and services. Adobe offers these identities types or accounts to authenticate and authorize users.

Identity types on Adobe Admin Console

Identity types allow the organization different levels of control over the users' accounts and data. Your choice of identity model has a considerable impact on how your organization stores and shares assets. While Federated ID and Enterprise ID models are created and managed by the organization, Adobe IDs are created and managed by the individual.

The following table guides you in choosing which identity model best suits your organization.

Note:

If your organization hasn’t been updated to Adobe's enterprise storage model, and you’re still using Adobe IDs for individuals, see the description in the identity types table.

Identity types


Federated ID

Enterprise ID

Adobe ID

 Key offerings

Created, owned, and managed by the organization. The organization manages user-credentials and uses Single Sign-On (SSO) via a SAML2 identity provider (IdP).

Created, owned, and managed by the organization. The organization retains exclusive rights to create user accounts on verified domains.

Created, owned, and managed by the end user. Adobe performs the authentication, and the end user manages the identity. Depending upon the storage model, users or businesses retain control over files and data. Adobe ID accounts are created on unverified, public, or trusted domains2.

Account & data ownership

Organization-owned and controlled

Organization-owned for Enterprise storage and user-owned for User storage

 

Security & monitoring

  • Audit logs
  • Content logs
  • Sharing restrictions
  • Organization’s authentication settings
  • Content logs
  • Sharing restrictions
  • Password policy1
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Creative Cloud for enterprise & Document Cloud for enterprise

Supported

Creative Cloud for teams & Document Cloud for teams

Not supported

Supported

Experience Cloud

Supported

Recommended for

  • Organizations already using SSO or SAML
  • Existing directory services, such as Google and Azure AD
  • Require easy integration with non-Adobe services
  • Can demonstrate ownership of domain
  • Can demonstrate ownership of domain
  • Don’t require SSO
  • Creative Cloud for teams
  • Organization prefers to use domains they don’t own
  • Public domains, for example, Hotmail, Gmail, and so on
  • Access apps like Adobe Experience Manager Mobile

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Claim domains

Add User

Note:

 

1 Password policy for Creative Cloud for teams is the same as that for Creative Cloud for individuals.

2 Adobe ID users authenticate with their Adobe ID credentials or by their owning organization's authentication model (SSO, 2FA, etc.) In such scenarios, users are redirected to the owning organization's SSO page. After authentication, users may need to choose a business profile.

Using Personal Adobe IDs

Adobe is updating all teams and enterprise customers to use Adobe's Enterprise storage model. See the following table if your organization has users who are using personal Adobe IDs to access their company or school Adobe apps and services.

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