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ADOBE DRIVE CC

ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE

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Adobe Drive CC Administrator’s Guide

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Adobe Drive CC Administrator’s Guide

Overview

This document is intended for server administrators. For information about how to use Adobe® Drive CC to
connect to a DAM server, see the Adobe Drive 5 User Guide and other documentation at

helpx.adobe.com/drive.html.

Adobe Drive CC is the name of the version 5 release; the product is referred to in the documentation and in
the user interface as Adobe Drive 5.

 As server administrator, you are responsible for configuring Adobe Drive 5 in order to simplify the

user’s experience when connecting to your server through the Adobe Drive 5 Connect UI. You do this
using a server presets configuration file; see “

 In order to connect to a DAM server through Adobe Drive 5, each client must make sure that all

certificates in the server’s certificate chain are trusted. If a certificate is not trusted, the user’s first
attempt to connect fails with an error telling them to inform their administrator. If any of your clients
encounter this problem, see “

 Adobe Drive 5 is extensible. If you are a third-party asset-management vendor, the Adobe Drive 5 SDK

allows you to provide integrated access to your DAM system from selected Adobe Creative Suite® 6
and Creative Cloud™ desktop applications. You can use the SDK to customize Adobe Drive 5 so that it
can seamlessly represent the contents of your remote DAM system as a network drive on the end
user’s file system.

Configuring server presets for Adobe Drive 5” on page 4.

Adding a non-trusted certificate to a client” on page 5 for instructions.

Adobe Drive 5 provides access to “hidden” user functions within integrated applications, such as
viewing version history or adding a check-in comment when saving a file. These features are
automatically activated in the integrated desktop application when the user installs Adobe Drive 5
along with your custom connector.

 You can use the Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition (AAMEE) to package Adobe Drive 5 in a

platform-specific format suitable for enterprise deployment. See “

environment” on page 6.

Deploying in an enterprise

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Configuring server presets for Adobe Drive 5

The Adobe Drive 5 Connect UI can be customized to offer easy access to your servers. When you bring up
the Adobe Drive 5 Connect UI on a client system, it offers a list of Preset Servers for each connector in the
left panel; when you select one, the URL for that server is automatically filled in as the Server URL.

The Preset Servers shown in this list are taken from a configuration file named
an editable text file. As administrator, you can configure this file and deploy it along with Adobe Drive 5 on
each client system.

Adobe Drive 5 looks for the configuration file on the client system at this location:

In Windows

In Mac OS

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Drive 4

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Drive 4

Configuring the presets file

The ServerPresets.xml file is a UTF8-encoded XML file that associates a list of server names with their
URLs. It contains a single
with this syntax:

<server name="display name" url="server URL">

Each element corresponds to one list item in the Preset Servers panel of the Adobe Drive 5 Connect UI.

<serverpresets> element, which in turn contains a set of <server> elements

ServerPresets.xml. This