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Table of Contents

  • Welcome
    • Manage computers
    • Interact with users
    • Deploy files
    • Take inventory
    • Configure preferences
    • Customize the toolbar
    • Tips and shortcuts
      • Basic network guidelines
      • Wireless network guidelines
      • NAT router guidelines
      • TCP and UDP port reference
    • Install and set up Remote Desktop
    • Enable remote management
    • Add clients
    • Save a client computer search
    • Manage computer lists
    • Enable directory services group authorization
    • Uninstall administrator software
    • About access privileges
    • Set access privileges
    • Virtual Network Computing access and control
    • Encrypt network data
    • About Remote Desktop user mode
    • Control or observe one client computer
    • Observe multiple client computers
    • Use High Performance screen sharing
    • Shortcuts in the multiple-client observe window
    • Choose how to control and observe
    • Share screens with client computers
    • Send messages
    • Set up a computer running VNC software
    • View a VNC server’s additional displays
    • View a computer’s system status while observing
    • View a user’s account picture while observing
    • Switch between full screen and in-window control
      • Main window
      • Report window
      • Task window
      • Control/observe window
      • Multi-client observe window
      • Customize the columns for computer lists or scanners
      • Client status icons
      • Task status icons
      • List icons
      • Connection status
      • Basic system status
      • Detailed system status
      • Client status indicators
    • Administer computers
    • Copy files
    • Copy options
    • Install files
    • Upgrade software
    • Manage files and apps
    • Set preferences on client computers
    • Sleep, shut down, log out, or restart a computer
    • Lock or unlock a screen
    • Edit client attributes
    • Execute commands remotely
    • Send UNIX command templates
    • About networksetup
    • About systemsetup
    • About tasks
    • Keep track of tasks
    • Schedule tasks
    • Save tasks
    • Create and use task templates
    • Configure a remote Task Server
    • Restrict clients to a specific Task Server
    • How reporting data is collected
    • Search for files
    • Create file reports
    • Create computer usage reports
    • Create hardware reports
    • Create a network responsiveness report
    • Get an Administration Settings report
    • Use a Task Server to create reports
    • Export reports
    • Generate report data automatically
    • Change report layout
    • Report field definitions
      • AppleScript basics
      • Use the Remote Desktop AppleScript dictionary
      • Sample AppleScript
      • About Automator
      • Create and run an Automator service
    • About SQLite
  • Copyright

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