WEBVTT 00:07.210 --> 00:11.440 We'll get started using Apple remote desktop by covering some of the basic things in the interface, 00:12.040 --> 00:17.050 on the left hand side is where you'll have your computers appear, your lists, your groups of lists, 00:17.440 --> 00:20.830 your test server, active tests and the task history. 00:21.640 --> 00:25.180 So, for example, you can go in here and create a new list of computers. 00:26.120 --> 00:31.340 By default, all the computers that you can manage are listed under the global all computers list, 00:31.740 --> 00:37.460 but you may want to break that down by department, by team, by computer lab if you're using this in 00:37.460 --> 00:38.040 a school. 00:38.360 --> 00:40.730 So we'll go ahead and just assume this is a computer lab. 00:40.730 --> 00:42.170 So we're going to say lab one hundred. 00:42.990 --> 00:49.620 Now, the other thing that you can do is group these, so if I can do a new group, I can say maybe 00:49.620 --> 00:50.790 this is my main building. 00:52.500 --> 00:59.160 And I can put all of my labs inside the main building and now I've got folders for multiple buildings. 00:59.190 --> 01:01.680 I'll do another group for a secondary building. 01:04.300 --> 01:07.830 And I may have lists of computers inside here as well. 01:08.970 --> 01:15.180 The benefit of having lists is not only for organization, but you can also group tasks and apply them 01:15.180 --> 01:16.670 to a full list at a time. 01:16.920 --> 01:24.720 So you may want lists that are based on the group of computers in a department that maybe you need to 01:24.720 --> 01:30.780 run a report on on a regular basis, or you may want to put them, like I mentioned, in organizational 01:30.780 --> 01:36.720 groups around an area of a building where you may have similar computers altogether that need to function 01:36.720 --> 01:42.090 the same way, where you may need to upgrade the software on a regular basis schedule and to restart 01:42.090 --> 01:44.100 nightly or those kinds of things. 01:45.770 --> 01:51.170 Next, we'll talk about the toolbar, the buttons on the toolbar separated by function, the first deal 01:51.170 --> 01:54.590 primarily with remote control and observing remote computers. 01:55.040 --> 02:00.770 The second set deal primarily an application installation, script, execution and copying files. 02:00.900 --> 02:03.200 And the third set is set up for reporting. 02:03.890 --> 02:09.500 You can customize this under view customized toolbar and add various other things that you might use 02:09.500 --> 02:15.890 most often, such as sending a message to a remote computer, chatting with the remote user, or doing 02:15.890 --> 02:21.230 various different power options like restarting the computers or waking from sleep or logging out the 02:21.230 --> 02:23.690 current user to modify this. 02:23.690 --> 02:28.610 All you need to do is drag and drop these things onto the bar and you can even give yourself some space 02:28.610 --> 02:30.820 if you want to continue the pattern of separating them out. 02:33.360 --> 02:39.060 Finally, let's talk about the remote desktop application preferences on the remote desktop preferences, 02:39.570 --> 02:40.980 we'll give you a number of different options. 02:40.980 --> 02:44.140 And I want to just talk about a few of these that are probably most important for you. 02:44.700 --> 02:49.260 So a lot of the beginning ones really just talk about how you want it to look and the kinds of prompts 02:49.260 --> 02:49.980 you may want to get. 02:50.370 --> 02:53.680 Not really too concerned about that control and observe. 02:53.700 --> 02:57.780 So there's some nice things here, such as scaling the screen. 02:57.780 --> 03:03.120 If the remote device that you're controlling has a higher resolution than maybe the computer you're 03:03.120 --> 03:06.480 on gives you the option of how to control the screen. 03:07.110 --> 03:11.340 This one is particularly nice when controlling a computer, whether you want to share control of the 03:11.340 --> 03:13.930 user, which is default or take complete control. 03:13.950 --> 03:17.850 So if you want to fight with the user who's moving their mouse around and you're trying to do something 03:17.850 --> 03:21.370 too, and that starts to drive you crazy, you can set this as default. 03:21.540 --> 03:24.990 You also have the ability during the remote control session to change that live. 03:24.990 --> 03:26.250 And I'll show that in a second. 03:27.080 --> 03:32.900 And then test server we'll talk about a little bit later reporting, we'll talk about a little bit later 03:33.170 --> 03:38.510 and then tasks and so on the test screen here, this is one that I like to uncheck. 03:39.080 --> 03:40.880 Always change focus to active task. 03:40.880 --> 03:43.160 I tend to be doing a lot at the same time. 03:43.160 --> 03:47.180 I'll start a task, maybe an application install, and then I'll jump to another task. 03:47.360 --> 03:48.950 Maybe it's a reboot of computers. 03:49.130 --> 03:54.880 And what happens with this is that it will start to jump around and the application will, when one 03:55.040 --> 03:59.630 one task completes the application, will try to jump over to that task history and show me that it 03:59.630 --> 04:02.420 completed and takes me out of what I'm currently doing. 04:02.420 --> 04:06.290 So I like to uncheck that makes my life a little easier if I'm multitasking. 04:07.490 --> 04:13.460 And then finally, under security, you have options here to deal with encrypting data when you're copying 04:13.460 --> 04:17.240 and installing packages, that definitely slows down the install. 04:17.240 --> 04:19.700 And you may choose to uncheck that if you want to. 04:19.880 --> 04:25.100 It's a little bit less secure, but what you're copying is not, you know, a secure file. 04:25.610 --> 04:28.790 It's probably worth on checking those things. 04:29.090 --> 04:30.800 And you also have the option here. 04:30.980 --> 04:35.960 If you're going to have not administrative users using the application, let's say maybe you want an 04:35.960 --> 04:43.370 instructor to log in as a basic user account and still be able to maybe remote control the computers 04:43.790 --> 04:44.870 in their classroom. 04:45.500 --> 04:49.350 You can go in here and limit those actions based on that. 04:49.370 --> 04:51.230 So right now, it defaults to just these things. 04:51.230 --> 04:55.700 But you could uncheck them and say, oh, the only thing they can do is observer control or share screens 04:55.700 --> 04:56.630 with other students. 04:57.560 --> 04:59.450 You have some options here to play around with that. 04:59.460 --> 05:03.080 I'm going to leave these as default for our purposes in this video. 05:05.000 --> 05:08.180 So that's the basic overview of the interface in Apple remote desktop. 05:08.540 --> 05:12.230 Next, we're going to get some clients added in here and start interacting with some of these Macs.