Companion Tool – Desktop App for AEM DAM Assets

Adobe have released AEM Assets Companion tool which is renamed as ‘Desktop App’ after AEM 6.2 which lets you to map all the AEM Assets to a network directory which sits local to your system. This would be a great tool for authors, business in many ways
It helps to upload, delete assets in bulk. This will also eliminate the usage of WebDAV and makes it simple.
Users can edit the images locally using their beloved tool and save it locally which reflect on the AEM instance.
You can browse the asset locally using explorer.

You can download the Companion App based on your OS here or in your AEM instance go to , Tools > Assets > Desktop Tools for AEM



Installation steps for Windows

Download the app from the above link based on your OS Compatiblity.
Double click the .msi file (Windows Installer Package) and click on ‘Next’


Select the ‘Install Folder’ and Click ‘Next


Click on ‘Install’


Once its installed, it would have created a ‘Network drive’ (X:) in your local system.
Click on ‘Launch’ to open the Desktop App

Configuration – App
Once you launch the app, give the host and port of your instance and click ‘Login. (Make sure AEM instance is running)

It connects to the AEM instance and opens the login screen. Provide User name / Pwd and Click ‘SignIn’.

On successful login, it opens the local explorer where all the assets would be synced to local network drive from the AEM instance.

You can create/modify assets and see the same is reflected on your AEM Assets
Configuration – AEM
Go to AEM instance and click on ‘User’ icon

Click on ‘User Preferences’ icon

Select the ‘Show Desktop actions for Assets’ and click ‘Accept’

Navigate to AEM Assets and you can now see an icon for ‘Reveal on Desktop’ for the assets

Once you click the icon, it asks to launch the application and open the local explorer.

Now, you have established the two-way sync between the AEM instance and the Desktop App.