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Jargon

Acronym

What is it?
Value Incentive
Program
Program 

VIP

The buying program which LTS’s annual purchase agreement is under. The agreement runs from August to August
… is the subscription licensing program LTS uses for bulk license purchasing of enterprise product licenses of two specific Adobe products.
Creative Cloud

CC

…
may refer generically
depending on context may be referring to the
suite
overall set of available products, applications and services, or
…
may be referring to a specific product (ex. “Creative Cloud All Apps  - 50 GB”).
Creative Cloud All AppsCC
… more specifically the sole (NUL) product LTS purchases licenses for in bulk blocks to attain discount level.
All Apps… used within the context of LTS’ supported Adobe licensing is referring to products which entitle subscribers to the use of, quite literally, all applications under the Creative Cloud banner. (Astute readers will of course catch the implication that not all services are included, which are additional products requiring separate licenses, and that becomes a very deep rabbit hole.)
Named User License

NUL


…
is its own product class,
refers to a product licensed and assigned to a user’s Federated ID (ex. asa879@lehigh.edu)
allows for two concurrent license activations per ID
.
Shared Device LicenseSDL
… is its own product class, is separately managed, special deployment packages must be created. These packages are never handed out
… refers to a special product licensed for use on computers for which (an arbitrary number of) users will need to use the software on that computer but will not have their own user licenses. These are used in lab and classroom deployments (ex. Digital Media Studio) and have very strict and restrictive requirements for acquisition.
entitlementsn/a… refer to the specific applications and services that you are entitled to install or use based on the product licenses assigned to your Federated ID.
Creative Cloud Desktop AppCCDA… is the primary and required application for
use by NUL, is the user’s gateway to license activate, app installation, Adobe Fonts, and other features and services
accessing your NUL license entitlements (i.e..
Federated IDn/a… is the configuration LTS uses to enable SSO (Single Sign-On) authentication allowing you access to
LTS’ VIP Enterprise CC NUL licenses. Within user-facing interfaces the option will typically display as "Company or School Account" or similar.
your entitlements.
Adobe IDn/a…  is an account residing on Adobe’s servers, external to
Lehigh/
LTS SSO, and not used for assigning the licenses we manage. Adobe IDs are not supported for assigning
Enterprise
LTS licenses.