Changes to Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Storage

Effective today, changes have been made to the university’s Adobe Creative Cloud funding and purchasing process. Additionally, we’ve paused our implementation of Microsoft Storage limits, which were planned to go into effect this summer. Read on for more details.

Adobe Creative Cloud

The university has identified funding to pay for professional use licenses for all faculty, students, and staff who need this software for their teaching, learning, research or work. This funding will pay for licenses for the upcoming fiscal year (FY26) as well as reimburse departments for their costs for the current fiscal year.

We ask that everyone continues to be thoughtful about who needs the full Adobe Creative Cloud suite vs. our free access to Adobe Express to be good stewards of our university resources. More information on accessing Adobe Express and ordering Adobe Creative Cloud is available for you.

• Faculty, Students and Staff: To order Adobe Creative Cloud, please visit go.osu.edu/adobecc and log in with your Ohio State username and password to request your free license for professional/academic use. If you don’t have a professional reason for using Adobe Creative Cloud but would like it for personal use, it is still available for purchasing at a discounted per license rate via the same link.
• Departments: No current action is needed for reimbursement; further details will be provided.

Microsoft Storage Limits

In response to your feedback, we have asked our team to pause the planned changes to Microsoft storage limits, which were initially set to take effect in June 2025.

Pausing on the changes to Adobe and Microsoft storage limits allows us and other new university leaders to engage in discussions, better understand the issues, and collaborate on solutions with leaders, faculty, researchers, students and staff.