When trying to activate your Creative Suite 2, Acrobat 7, or Macromedia products you may receive an error that the Activation server is unavailable. As of December 15th the activation servers for these products will be shut down. The specific affected products are as follows:
- Acrobat 7.0
- Acrobat 8.0
- Audition 3.0
- Captivate 1.0
- Contribute 2.0
- Contribute 3.0
- Director MX 2004
- Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Fireworks MX 2004
- Flash Paper 2.0
- Freehand MX
- GoLive CS2
- Illustrator CS2
- InCopy CS2
- InDesign CS2
- Macromedia Studo MX 2004
- Photoshop CS2
- Photoshop Elements 4.0
- Photoshop Elements 5.0
- Premiere Pro 7.0
The activation server being shut down will not affect currently installed and activated Adobe software. You will only face this difficulty if you need to reactivate the software.
To remedy this difficulty we have made available a version of these software titles that does not require activation. For additional details and specific links to the software please see:
Error: Activation Server Unavailable | CS2 products, Acrobat 7 - http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/creative-suite-2-act ivation-end-life.html
Error: Activation Server Unavailable | Macromedia branded products - http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/macromedia-legacy-ac tivation-error.html