Migrate Acrobat Classic 2020 users to Feature Restricted Licensing

تاريخ آخر تحديث 16‏/12‏/2024

Migrate users from Acrobat Classic 2020 (serial number) to Acrobat Classic Feature Restricted Licensing.

1. Deactivate the serial number on the machine

ملاحظة

Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition is a platform-specific executable file, adobe_prtk.exe in Windows or adobe_prtk in macOS.

Open an elevated prompt (run as administrator), using the DOS command shell in Windows or a Terminal in macOS.

Navigate to the folder where you have downloaded the executable.

Deserialize a package using the following command:

macOSadobe_prtk --tool=UnSerialize --leid=<LEID> [--deactivate] [--force]

Windowsadobe_prtk.exe --tool=UnSerialize --leid=<LEID> [--deactivate] [--force]

Supported arguments of the command:

--leid LEID

The product’s licensing identifier (see Product identification).

--locale locale

Optional; a locale code. For a list of the codes and the corresponding locales, see Locale Codes.

--deactivate

Optional; deactivates the corresponding license from the system

--removeSWTag

Removes the SWTag files.

SWTag refers to universal identification tag files for software application titles created as per ISO/IEC standards (ISO/IEC 19770-2). These files enable an accurate, consistent, and automated method for discovery and management of software assets.

--force

Forcefully deactivates the corresponding license from the machine

2. Validate registry setting

Windows

Go to the Windows registry editor.

Navigate to the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\2020\Activation

Ensure that following setting is either unavailable or set to 0

IsAMTEnforced"=dword:00000000

macos

From the Go menu navigate down to Go to Folder in Finder, or hit Command+Shift+G.

Navigate to the following location:

/Library/Preferences/

Open the following file:

com.adobe.acrobat.pro.2020.plist

Ensure that the following setting is either unavailable or set to NO:

IsAMTEnforced=Boolean:NO

3. Create feature restricted license-only package on the Admin Console

After completing the above procedures, each end-user machine has an unlicensed Acrobat version installed. To license this version, create and deploy a feature restricted license-only package to each machine. To do this, use the following procedures, based on the licensing activation method that your organization is using: