Installation of Creative Cloud Connector on the local machine:

The extension can be installed in two ways:

• From Adobe Exchange portal Adobe Exchange, search for Digizuite Creative Cloud Connector. Then follow the installation from there.
• Install the extension manually. Request the connector from your contact person at Digizuite. They will give you the connector as a zip file (creative-cloud-connector.zip)
  Dependent on the system, unzip the files and place the files as follows:
  • on Windows computers: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\com.digizuite.creative-cloud-connector
  • on macOS computers: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions/com.digizuite.creative-cloud-connector

Install proxy website

This version of the connector uses the MM5 config manager prior to the previous version which had it own config manager area. You have two options either you use the MM5 url as the starting point for the Creative Cloud Connector or you setup a proxy website, where you can controll the config version Id of the site, meaning having seprate config parameters for the Creative Cloud Connector, if you choose this path then follow the following installations steps.

Step 1: Preparation

To initialize the installation it is important to to do the following steps:

1. Copy the provided archive into your server and unzip into a new folde.
2. Create a new folder with the name matching the DNS record for Adobe CC Connector in the location that your IIS server has the access to. This location is usually the folder named "Webs" (usually C:/Webs is used, but it can also be located on a different drive).
   Alternative method of finding the relevant "Webs" folder is by using Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. In order to do that, you need to:
   1. unfold the menu with the server name
   2. unfold "Sites"
   3. right click on the name of one of the existing Digizuite products, for example your DAM center
   4. click "Explore"
      
3. The folder named "Digizuite Adobe Creative Cloud Connector (version)" is used for setting up the proxy website. After unpacking it, you need to place its contents into the folder created in the previous step.
4. Create a new folder with the same name as your DNS record in the folder "LogFiles". You will need to specify the path to the newly created folder in one of the following steps.

Step 2: Creating a new Adobe CC Connector version

The DAM Center enables the opportunity of creating multiple Adobe CC Connector versions with the help of the Config Manager. Usually, however, you will only have one version corresponding to your one Adobe CC Connector.

It is strongly recommended to create at least one version of the application (Default) at this stage of the installation process.

To create a new version, you'll have to access your DAM Center.

In your DAM Center, navigate to System tools → ConfigManager → Media Manager 5 and select the correct version. 

While standing in the root of Media Manager 5's Config Manager, look to the upper right corner where a button says "Create new version".

To the left of the button, there is a text field. In the field, type the title of the version.  Name the new version something like this CCC.

Press the "Create new version" button.

It can be noticed that under System tools -> ConfigManager -> Media Manager 5 a new folder has been created that contains the current version and the newly created one.

You will need to access the version ID of this newly created version in the next step in order to mark it as the current one.

Step 3: Website Configuration for Adobe CC Connector

Before Adobe CC Connector can be used, it needs to have some base configuration set, such as which DAM Center it should use. This configuration can be found in the appsettings.json file. This file was part of the content that you have copied into the folder with the name matching the DNS record for the site

This is the relevant part of the configuration file that you will see once you open it with Notepad++:

{
  "Logging": {
    "LogLevel": {
      "Default": "Warning"
    }
  },
  "AllowedHosts": "*",
  "EnablePrerendering": false,
  "ForceHttps": true,
  "HttpsPort": 443,
  "MediaManagerConfiguration": {
    "GuestUsername": "Guest",
    "GuestPassword": "0ea2f02d5f73c86c220ff08b23d1c3f1",
    "ApiDomain": "",
    "UseHttps": true,
    "WowzaServer": "",
    "WowzaAppName": "mmapp",
    "AbrMediaId": "666",
    "EnabledFeatures": [],
    "InstrumentationKey": "#{instrumentationKey}",
    "ProductVersion": "#{productVersion}",
    "VersionId": "!/5/",
    "UseFederatedAuthentication": false,
    "EnableNormalLogin": false,
    "BusinessWorkflowServiceUrl": "http://localhost:60000/"
  }
}

While you fill out the required fields, the same rules as with the configuration file for the installation scripts apply. Here is the description of how to replace the placeholders (marked in red):

Note: Fields "WowzaServer", "EnabledFeatures" and "InstrumentationKey" are not relevant for the Connector and should be disregarded.

Step 4: Creation of a New IIS Website

To add a new website on Windows Server, open the "Server Manager" console. Then, under the "Tools" drop-down menu, select "Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager".

Unfold the menu under the server name. Next, right-click the webserver and select "Add website...".

Once you select "Add website...", a new window will show up. Here you have to do the following:

1. Type in your "Site name". The name should be the same as the folder that you created in "Webs" folder for your Digizuite™ Adobe CC Connector in the preparation process (second step).
2. Specify your "Physical path". You do this by clicking "..." next to the text box and searching for Adobe CC Connector folder mentioned above.
3. Specify the prepared DNS record name in "Host name", which matches "Site name".
4. Change type to "https".
5. Check the box "Require Server Name Identification"
6. Select the correct SSL certificate from the drop-down menu.
7. Click "OK".

Once the site has been created, go into the bindings for the site in the IIS and create http site on the same domain.

Step 5: Application Pool Setup

1. Expand the server content from the IIS Manager window and select the "Application Pools" menu.
2. Locate the pool with the same name as your website and double-click it.
3. The "Edit Application Pool" window will appear. Confirm that the selected .Net CLR version is 4+.
4. Close "Edit Application Pool" and open the "Advanced Settings".
5. Under "Process Model" change the Identity to "LocalService".