Will the CS3 activation servers be shut down?

[Frank_L_Hawkins]

Are there plans to deactivate CS3 Activation server. If so when ?

If not now then how much advance notifation should I expect? Last one CS2 caght me by surprise

thanks for any help Jeff

Frank

[John Waller]

Last one CS2 caght me by surprise

Caught everyone by surprise I think.

The CS2 shutdown was so unexpected that everyone thought the software was being given away for free until Adobe was forced to clarify things for us.

I would expect future events to be exactly the same as the CS2 shutdown. Unannounced until the day it happens.

[Jeff A Wright]

Frank I am not aware of any plans to shut down the Activation servers for Creative Suite 3 or later.

[ddaydreams]

HI Jeff

Are you in a position to know? Did they tell you in advance when this this was going to happen with CS2 or did they just do it with no notice and then have you handle damage control.

If no plans now then how much advance notifation should I expect if they do make plans to do it and where should I look for such a notice?

Seeing the bad impact this had when they did this with CS2 I would hope for some advance notice on CS3. The CS2 surprise thing cost me 5000K in devalued product I had in stock.

And now I have some CS3 products in stock that would experence a similar devalueation if the server got killed.

[Jeff A Wright]

Branching this to a separate discussion.

[ddaydreams]

I'm not seeing the branch. got a link?

[ddaydreams]

I was expecting to see Jeffs answer here. I thought he made the branch to answer my

Feb 27, 2014 7:52 AM question. Maybe he's looking into it.

[Jeff A Wright]

Ddaydreams I branched out the discussion as it was not directly related to the CS2 activation server shut down topic.

Please be aware there are several differences between the activation technology/situation which occured with Creative Suite 2 and the activation technology being used with Creative Suite 3 and later.

As previously indicated there are no current plans to shut down the activation server for Creative Suite 3 or later.  I am not sure how much more detail I can go into for something which is not planned to occur in the future.

[ddaydreams]

Are you in a position to know? Did they tell you in advance when this this was going to happen with CS2 or did they just do it with no notice and then have you handle damage control?

Who Knew in advance last time?, that might tell me where to look if there is a next time.

I wanted to know If I should monitor here or elseware should such a plan emerge again with CS3

Thanks For Any Help

[Jeff A Wright]

Ddaydreams yes I work for Adobe directly and I am aware of upcoming changes.

I would recommend continuing to review the Download, Installation, Setting Up forums at http://forums.adobe.com/community/download_install_setup.  These forums are updated regularly regarding emerging issues which are installation, activation, or download related.  The notifications maybe made with new FAQ topics being developed, and featured, or notifications being made available.

[ddaydreams]

Perfect! thanks much . I'll bookmark that. And on a side note. I'm really glad Adobe made a way to keep using Photoshop CS2 because I have old plugins/ filters that will not work on my newer CS6. So I run both.

[Jeff A Wright]

Thanks for the feedback Ddaydreams!