I do not remember exactly, but I think the problem goes away with build 17xx. That build does not include universal windows platform (UWP), which I suspect Adobe may be increasingly using to create applications that work in different environments and form factors.Ĭurrent build of Windows for workstations is 1909. I see that windows server 2016 in the background of Workspaces is build 16xx. I believe that part of the problem may be with the features it might require from newer builds of Windows. You can find my post in Amazon forums searching for "Adobe Creative Cloud updates fail in AWS Workspaces". I have posted in the forums and called Adobe with no anwser worth mentioning, and ditto with Amazon forums. Now, since last year, we are running into problems with Cloud Manager and we are seeing more and more incompatible applications. We reduced cost to a quarter or a fifth and achieved total freedom for telecomuting. About 3 years ago, I dismantled 3 data centers, cancelled al MPLSs and moved servers to AWS and networked them to AWS Workspaces. We have been usign Adobe for many years (20+). I am the systems director for a chain of 5 newspapers. But I won't be holding my breath for an early solution. Oh - and customers might be quite pleased too, especially the bigger ticket corporates. There is the longer term consieration that some Adobe competitor might come along and build a niche on virtualise platforms so for market preservation someone at Adobe HQ really should mandate a review. In summary, someone at Adobe should re-visit the virtual desktop world - there's money on the table there for the taking with minimal technical or reputational risk. The virtual desktops are operated by recognisable organisations and available in a legal territory to suit your needs. And when its time to add more power, we simply visit the console and voila the machine has more disk, memory or cpu. In a first-world internet speed situation, you could do the old coke/pepsi side-by-side test and most users would not taste the difference between the virtual and physical world. All Amazon Web Services Windows desktops run under controlled licence conditions - no one is sharing or pirating.įrom a business risk perspective, virtual desktops are the perfect answer to control, audit, backup, security, and device & data loss protection. Regarding licencing I perfectly appreciate the need for licence (revenue) control, Having been working in corporate software for 30 years I get the edginess about single-user products moving onto a potential multi-user platform, but MS, Amazon and others have this under control. I fear there may be a religious position being adopted and its truly not that clear cut. Painful to write but has to be done.Īdobe may need to revisit the revenue potential for virtualised desktop services as many of the technical weeknesses that you hint at are no longer the case. This is the bit where I bleat on about why the mighty Adobe should change its policy. One of the most recent examples of this strategy is Photoshop for iPad. We have often taken the best features of our desktop products and then optimize them for a mobile perspective. It is more likely we will create new creative solutions that will work in these types of environments.Ī similar process has been used with our mobile applications for iOS and Android. You can use the feedback link that John has referenced, but overall I doubt you will see our desktop applications ever supporting virtual environments. Server-based solutions typically attempt to emulate this hardware, with some measure of success. The applications themselves, though continue to be demanding and require direct access to the hardware that is installed on the computer. Some of the most recent advances in Photoshop and Premiere Pro use Adobe Sensei to offload the heavy work to a cloud-based solution. We have also implemented several server-based/cloud solutions within desktop applications. Overall our desktop applications continue to take advantage of the latest hardware that is available to enhance the creative output of your work. JEE_12340, in addition to the system requirements listed by John, please see which discusses many of the limitations to using a virtualized environment to run desktop applications.
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