Apple ARD31 manual Easy Setup, Automation, Screen sharing and text communication

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Apple Remote Desktop 3

Observe and control multiple screens of remote Mac or VNC-enabled computers simultaneously

•View up to 50 screens in a single window

•Adjust the number of screens visible on each page

•Adjust color depth to one of four modes: black and white, grayscale, thousands of colors, millions of colors

•Rotate through the list of observed computers manually or automatically

•View at-a-glance information about network computers using system status indicators

Screen sharing and text communication

•Share a Mac screen with other Mac OS X systems

•Send text message to a group of Mac OS X systems

•Conduct one-to-one real-time, computer-to-computer text chat

Easy Setup

•Discover the computers you need to manage using network scanners; create as many scanners as you need and configure each to search particular areas of your network

•Create computer lists to organize the system however you wish; by model, location, or department, for example

•Review or reuse tasks using list of previously executed tasks

•Allow non-administrator users to run Apple Remote Desktop 3 with some or all features enabled

•Use a computer other than the administrator computer as a Task Server to automatically collect reporting data

•Use groups to organize computers by location, model, or department

•Define a set of rules to add computers to Smart Computer Lists automatically

•Associate computers with one of seven user-defined labels

•Use customized Computer List views to show only information of interest, including 14 additional attributes that may be chosen for display

•Authenticate clients using organization’s directory services group names

•Encrypt all communications between Apple Remote Desktop 3 and client computers with 128-bit AES encryption, or disable encryption for data-intensive tasks

Automation

•Create powerful system administration workflows by combining Apple Remote Desktop actions

•Create end-to-end solutions by combining actions with other applications’ actions

•Save Automator workflows as plug-ins

•Includes over 30 actions