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Remote Desktop v2.2, EN, Mac, Unlimited Client Delivering over 50 new features and countless enhancements, Apple Remote Desktop 2 is a complete desktop management solution for Mac OS X. You can distribute software, configure systems, offer real-time online help and create detailed hardware and software reports — for all of your Mac systems in your organization, all from your own Mac.

You’ve Never Had It So Easy

With its state-of-the-art software distribution features, Apple Remote Desktop 2 makes installing software on the Macs you manage a virtual walk in the park. It lets you remotely install new software on any number of your networked Macs without interrupting the client systems or requiring any interaction.

Apple Remote Desktop 2 also lets you create custom install packages — containing company-specific software or files, for example. Or if you want to copy files and folders to targeted locations in your clients’ hard drives, you can do that, too.

Apple Remote Desktop 2 allows you to specify multiple software packages for consecutive installation. Once you get the process started, you’re done, even if the package requires a restart. Apple Remote Desktop will detect and offer to restart the computer for you upon completion of the installation.

It also enables you to schedule your distributions, so you can set it to perform your installations durings those times when network traffic is at its lowest.

Extend a Hand — Without Leaving Your Desk

Apple Remote Desktop 2 gives you the necessary tools to provide the best technical assistance possible to the computer users on your network. With its real-time screen-sharing — which works not just with Mac systems but with any Virtual Network Computing (VNC)-enabled computer, including Windows, Linux or UNIX systems — Apple Remote Desktop 2 allows you to observe up to 50 clients’ screens simultaneously, as well as control individual screens.

You can also share your own screen with your computer users on Mac OS X systems — perfect for when you need to demonstrate specific tasks — or even single out any one of their screens and share it with the other users in your network.
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Need to communicate with your users? Send out an instant text message — to one or all of your clients. If your users ever need to get your attention, they can send you a text message. Or if you want to engage in a private conversation, you can initiate a real-time, one-to-one text chat with anyone in your network.

Remote Control for Your Macs

Apple Remote Desktop 2 takes the legwork out of your administrative tasks. Using remote shell scripts, you can use included additional command-line tools to set Network, Energy Saver and Date and Time system preferences. You can shut down, restart or sleep any Mac in your network without getting up from your desk, as well as lock screens or empty Trash. You can also choose the startup disk you want your Macs to boot from — either their local hard drives or a network-server-based NetBoot disk.
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Apple Remote Desktop lets you execute UNIX shell scripts or commands on any number of your client systems at once. This gives you even more power over your Mac OS X client computers. You can script many of the standard functions built into UNIX systems, as well as take advantage of the command-line interfaces in Mac OS X.

Indispensable Knowledge

As an administrator, knowing your Macs is key. Apple Remote Desktop 2 lets you stay right on top of the hardware and software attributes of every Mac in your network — even when they’re offline. You can gather information on over 200 attributes of each Mac — everything from hard drive size to display characteristics to network settings to software versions.

Apple Remote Desktop 2 stores the system information you collect in the included standards-based SQL database and lets you generate reports on your data using any of the several report types available in the software. So you’ll always know which systems need more memory, how much free space they have available in their hard drives, what versions of software they’re running, what applications are installed and much more.

You can pull information on your Mac systems regardless of their presence on the network. Apple Remote Desktop 2 stores the profile of every Mac whether it stays permanently in the network or regularly leaves it. For those Macs that travel, you can configure how often they update their information in the database when they return to the network, so you’ll always have up-to-date info. This ability to keep track of offline computers is indispensable for managing PowerBooks and iBooks. Apple Remote Desktop 2 keeps you in the know even when your systems spend most of their time on the road.