Apple Remote Desktop User Guide
- Welcome
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- Control or observe one client computer
- Observe multiple client computers
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- Copyright
About Automator and Remote Desktop
You can use Automator to automate Remote Desktop tasks such as Lock Screen or Install Packages, and then repeat those tasks again and again. Use application actions as the building blocks.
Using Automator actions, you can even make it possible for other users to do tasks in Remote Desktop without giving them administrator access. For example, let teachers lock and unlock screens by creating an Automator plug-in or application. This plug-in lets them select only the computers in their classroom, and the plug-in does the rest of the work for them.
You can create an Automator workflow, application, Finder plug-in, or Calendar alarm similar to the AppleScript script in Sample AppleScript for Remote Desktop.
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