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November 2022 Adobe JELA Newsletter
The Adobe JELA 3 November Newsletter contains updates from Emergent, Carahsoft and Adobe related to Adobe products and the DISA Adobe JELA contract. JELA Enrollees are welcome to submit future content recommendations to jela@adobe.com.
To all those who have served, and those who continue to serve… Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service.
Program Updates * Product Updates * Upcoming Events / Webinars *
Program Updates
JELA option year was booked with Adobe, new period of performance is September 30, 2022 - September 29, 2023.
Procurement Questions:
- USAF - aflcmc.hica-seamls@us.af.mil
- Army -usarmy.pentagon.hqda-cio-g-6.mbx.pr-ela-team@army.mil
- 4th Estate - david.a.white440.civ@mail.mil.
- Any additional questions regarding payments and quoting can be directed to jela@emergent360.com
Technical Update
Check out the Tech Corner for details on the series of webinars to help system administrators prepare for updating licenses for the current contract year.
Carahsoft, Adobe and Emergent are pleased to receive requests from JELA enrollees to coordinate standing sync-ups! please feel free to email jela@adobe.com if you would like to coordinate with our team.
Product Updates
Adobe Experience Manager Forms: Reader Extensions Update Certificate updates are required to continue using Reader Extensions (expiring January 2023):
- Adobe leverages a PKI (public key infrastructure) to issue digital certificates for use in licensing and feature enablement. Certificates for existing Reader Extensions functionality are scheduled to expire on Jan 7, 2023.
- Once the certificate expires, features dependent on the certificates no longer work. Customers should update as soon as possible.
- To keep the Reader Extended documents working, customers would need to:
- Import new certificates to their environment
- Reapply usage rights with new certificates to already reader-extended documents
- Redistribute updated copies of documents to users
- Customers may obtain new certificates from Adobe Licensing Website. Please create a support ticket or contact jela@adobe.com if you need assistance.
Please review here for additional information: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/forms/administrator-help/configure-acrobat-reader-dc-extensions/updating-expired-reader-extension-certificates.html
End of Support Notifications:
CC21 is no longer receiving security patches. Users should update to CC22 or CC23.
- Last month, in October during Adobe MAX, Adobe released our newest version of Creative Cloud suite. The long term support version of products, supported one version back with security updates, is reflected below. See table for Creative Cloud Long Term Support versions to be supported until October 2023.
- ColdFusion & ColdFusion Builder 2018 end of support July 13, 2023
- Adobe Products and Technical Support Periods outside of Creative Cloud available here
- Adobe Stock: All Creative Cloud users on JELA have access to unlimited Standard Adobe Stock Assets. Learn more
Upcoming Events & Webinars
Upcoming Events: (Marketing)
- November 10, Taking Shape | 3D Inspiration
- November 16, Adobe Webinar, Enhance Your Creativity with Power and Precision
- November 17, Acrobat Skill Builder, PDF Collaboration: Share, review, and work together
- November 17, Adobe Webinar, Transforming Digital Documents to Unlock Productivity
- December 1, Adobe Skill Builder, Adobe Express for All
- December 13, Adobe Webinar, MAX Recap with Chris Converse
- December 15, Adobe Skill Builder, Work with PDFs in your Microsoft apps
- Explore Adobe Learning Events landing page for other live training opportunities
On-Demand Meetings and Webinars:
- Adobe Webinar, JELA III Lunch and Learn Session 4, AEM Forms & Acrobat Sign Integration
- Adobe Webinar Series, Refresh Digital Document Workflows
- Adobe Webinar, Leverage New Design Essentials for an Improved Creative Workflow
- Adobe Webinar, Modernizing Digital Document Workflows
- Adobe Webinar, Introducing the New Essentials Workspace for Clean and Simple Editing
- Adobe Webinar Series, Moving Beyond the Basics of Digital Government with Analytics & Personalization
- Adobe Webinar, Transform Raw Video Footage into Cinematic Works of Art
- Webinar library: Catch up on the latest product training, best practice sharing and thought leadership across Creative Cloud and Document Cloud. The Digital Media library includes access to upcoming live events and on-demand recordings.
Adobe Use Case
Bringing the next wave of Artificial Intelligence to Creative Cloud
You type in “A pirate ship floating in the San Francisco Bay” and seconds later, images appear of a galleon with skull & crossbones sails, passing beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. The technology is called Generative Artificial Intelligence and it seems to translate your imagination to a computer screen.
Adobe, along with many other innovators, has been experimenting with Generative AI. It is a transformational technology, one that will accelerate the ways artists brainstorm and explore creative avenues — and make creativity accessible to millions more people.
At the same time, like a lot of new technologies, Generative AI has raised valid concerns. Among the questions: How is the work of creative people being used to train the AI models? And how will we know whether something we see was created by a human or a computer?
From the launch of Photoshop to the rise of 3D, Adobe has a 40-year history of helping lead the creative community through technological transformations in how we create. We are committed to helping lead this transition by implementing Generative AI in our tools in a way that empowers artists and opens creativity to new people, but never seeks to replace human imagination and judgment. And we are working with the creative and technological communities to ensure that Generative AI is developed with transparency.
Today, at Adobe MAX, we announced our approach to developing creator-centric Generative AI offerings by leveraging Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) standards and investing in new research to support creatives' control over their style and work.
The CAI is an Adobe-led initiative with more than 800 partners working to increase trust online. CAI’s open-source technology enables creators to securely attach provenance data to digital content, helping ensure that creators get credit for their work, and for those who view a piece of content understand who made it and how it was created and edited.
Read more about Generative AI that empowers creators
We'd like to showcase your use case/story about how you're using Adobe products in future newsletters. Please email us at jela@adobe.com to share your story!
Tech Corner
Serial Numbers (Acrobat only) are expiring at the end of November, and new FRL License Files are available!!!
Come join us in our Quarterly “Office Hours” style technical meeting. Following a quick presentation on the upcoming serial numbers and the new FRL license files, we will open the floor for any questions about any topic you may have for the rest of the hour.
Additional Resources:
- Adobe JELA III Desktop Product Renewals guide for step by step processes on updating license keys and/or Serial Numbers
- JELA-FRL Installation: Basic Troubleshooting for common issues
- To review the recording of the sessions and documents shared throughout the webinar in August 2022 visit: Adobe DMe Technical Webinar Series for JELA
This will be an ongoing quarterly technical meeting that we will send a calendar invite to all of the Adobe Admin Console System, Deployment, and Support administrators about 2 weeks prior to the event.
If you have a question that needs to be addressed prior to this meeting, please reach out to us at jelatech@adobe.com.
Here is the meeting link for you to join us on November 21st at 1100-1200 ET.
Additional Resources
- Emergent Adobe JELA website jela@emergent360.com; (800) 292-1000
- Carahsoft Adobe JELA website adobe-jela@carahsoft.com; (877) 99-ADOBE
- Digital Media Elite Support Team
- Adobe Experience League
- Adobe Products and Technical Support Periods
- Adobe Help Center
- Adobe eLearning website
Enrollees are welcome to submit future content recommendations and feedback to jela@adobe.com.
Credits:
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