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Technology Overview

Apple Remote Desktop 3

Client authentication

To manage a Mac OS X system using Apple

Remote Desktop, administrators need to

authenticate and receive authorization

from the Apple Remote Desktop Client

software—ensuring that only authorized

users can control a computer or perform

speciﬁed administrative tasks.

Apple Remote Desktop can perform

authentication and authorization against

your organization’s directory server. Or for

organizations that rely on the local computer

for authentication, Apple Remote Desktop

supports authentication against one or

more local accounts.

Setting Up

Apple Remote Desktop 3

Apple Remote Desktop 3 gives you all of the tools you need to manage the Mac

computers on your network—whether you’re distributing software, providing

online assistance, or collecting information about hardware and software assets.

You can manage computers individually or multiple computers at the same time.

Getting Started

To get started with Apple Remote Desktop, install the administration software on

the system you will use to manage remote Mac computers. Client software is built

into Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther and later, so it’s easy to implement Apple Remote

Desktop 3 across your organization. Apple Remote Desktop 3 is available in two

versions: a 10 Managed Systems edition for small workgroups and an Unlimited

Managed Systems edition for managing more than 10 clients.

Security and encryption

Apple Remote Desktop 3 uses 128-bit AES encryption to ensure that all remote

communications are secure, even over the Internet, with client computers running

Mac OS X v10.3 or later. For screen control and ﬁle copy tasks, where encrypting large

amounts of data may signiﬁcantly degrade performance, administrators can choose

encryption for improved security or leave encryption oﬀ for better performance.

Using a Task Server

A Task Server can collect reporting data on a scheduled basis or execute the new

AutoInstall feature in Apple Remote Desktop 3, ideal for updating software on

mobile systems whenever they connect to the network. By assigning a Task Server

to perform these tasks, you can free up the administrator computer for handling

critical management demands.

User mode

If you wish to allow non-administrator users to implement speciﬁc features of Apple

Remote Desktop 3, you can enable or disable features in the Apple Remote Desktop

Security preference pane. This can be useful for classroom teachers or less technical

users who need to perform a limited set of desktop management tasks without

reliance on the administrator.

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