WEBVTT 00:06.760 --> 00:13.240 In this lesson, I want to talk about installing applications and really going to point out a couple 00:13.240 --> 00:19.060 of cool features with regards to installing applications of Apple remote desktop and then also point 00:19.060 --> 00:20.200 out one limitation. 00:20.980 --> 00:22.840 So I'm going to go ahead and get started here. 00:23.330 --> 00:24.040 Minimize this. 00:24.040 --> 00:25.470 Let me show you what I have on my desktop. 00:25.480 --> 00:27.900 We're going to actually install three different applications. 00:28.240 --> 00:30.430 We're going to install Wacom tablet drivers. 00:30.430 --> 00:33.970 If you're not familiar with Wacom tablets, they're drawing tablets that are used in art and design 00:33.970 --> 00:36.040 an awful lot, as well as touch screens. 00:37.270 --> 00:42.280 The Dobe flash player, which everyone should be familiar with that application, and then open AMMU, 00:42.280 --> 00:46.110 which is a emulator for playing classic video games. 00:46.870 --> 00:51.760 So when we talk about each of these individually, before I get into Apple remote desktop, the first 00:51.760 --> 00:58.510 thing I want to point out, Open Ammu is actually an entirely self-contained application. 00:58.510 --> 01:00.000 And we've seen this a lot in the West. 01:00.010 --> 01:04.450 And a lot of the applications, especially the ones that are built into Mac OS, are self-contained. 01:04.450 --> 01:08.410 And those are the ones where you can do show package contents, as we looked at before. 01:08.410 --> 01:13.450 And you can see all the supporting files are really contained within the application itself. 01:15.340 --> 01:18.370 Second is, we go ahead and mount these drives. 01:18.380 --> 01:20.740 So do both of these. 01:22.160 --> 01:28.250 Second up is the welcome to have a driver, this is actually a pkg file, so that's a particular type 01:28.490 --> 01:29.750 of installer package. 01:30.410 --> 01:36.890 That's basically when you package an application for Mac OS, the default Mac OS installer accepts and 01:36.890 --> 01:41.890 reads and then uses the file format to install applications. 01:41.900 --> 01:45.110 And these are typically applications that may have they're not self-contained. 01:45.500 --> 01:50.180 They do have supporting resources that maybe get installed across different areas of the hard drive. 01:51.690 --> 01:57.210 And then flash player itself is actually an application, and this is the most difficult one to deal 01:57.210 --> 02:03.120 with, with Apple and what desktop basically out of the box because it doesn't support installing an 02:03.120 --> 02:08.280 application, requires some amount of interactivity on the other side of the client. 02:08.290 --> 02:13.230 But we can actually show you how you can do this in an interactive way remotely. 02:13.290 --> 02:15.440 So we'll start with you. 02:15.510 --> 02:18.000 Jump back into HD here. 02:19.540 --> 02:26.590 So we've got my MacBook Pro here, and we'll start with the most simplest install, and that's going 02:26.590 --> 02:27.370 to be the copy. 02:27.970 --> 02:31.270 So I'm going to go ahead and hit the plus here. 02:33.000 --> 02:34.710 And I'm going to find my. 02:35.990 --> 02:38.870 File on my desktop, open MUE. 02:40.230 --> 02:45.750 Choose that and then and that's what to do with it, and you can place them in different, different 02:45.750 --> 02:46.200 things. 02:46.350 --> 02:48.090 I'm going to choose applications, folders. 02:48.090 --> 02:51.470 They have few of these that are a pre-built that are most common. 02:51.480 --> 02:53.160 So I'm going to do applications folder. 02:53.430 --> 02:58.380 And if the item already exists, what I want to do, I'm just going to say replace it if it exists. 02:58.650 --> 03:02.940 And I want to inherit the the permissions from the folder that it's in. 03:02.940 --> 03:06.360 So it's going to have the same permissions as the applications folder, which is the default. 03:08.040 --> 03:12.600 I'm not doing this on more than one machine, but if I wanted to, I could have if there's an issue 03:12.600 --> 03:15.000 on one machine, I can have it stop copying on. 03:15.000 --> 03:16.950 All machines are going to have to continue to do it. 03:17.710 --> 03:19.610 This case is just one machine, so I don't care. 03:19.890 --> 03:24.660 And then after opening, whether I want to open the items or not, I'm actually going to say no security, 03:24.660 --> 03:25.860 encrypt the data network. 03:26.070 --> 03:27.180 I'm going to leave that on. 03:27.180 --> 03:31.740 But you may want to turn that off if you've got a really large file to copy, because it does slow down 03:31.740 --> 03:32.370 the file copy. 03:32.370 --> 03:41.400 And if there's not anything, you know, sensitive or that needs to be secured or encrypted in the file 03:41.400 --> 03:46.250 that you're copying, you may choose to turn that off and then you can also limit your network usage. 03:46.260 --> 03:47.460 I'm not going to do that here. 03:47.460 --> 03:52.590 But if you've got a large application and or large file that you need to copy, you may want to do that 03:52.590 --> 03:57.220 so that it doesn't flood your network with data and cause issues with the network performance. 03:57.480 --> 03:58.890 So anyway, I got that all set. 03:58.890 --> 04:02.610 I can certainly schedule this for a later time as well as we've seen before, but I'm going to go ahead 04:02.820 --> 04:03.480 and just do it. 04:03.480 --> 04:04.920 And so I'm just going to say copy and. 04:10.560 --> 04:12.390 So when I hit copy, it's going to go ahead and start. 04:21.910 --> 04:22.750 And it's completed. 04:23.680 --> 04:24.100 So. 04:27.820 --> 04:28.690 Here's my copy. 04:30.300 --> 04:34.070 We go out and control my machine, make sure it actually worked. 04:45.510 --> 04:51.150 All right, we told to install in the applications folder and cruise through here, and sure enough, 04:51.150 --> 04:55.590 there it is, there's our application so that we essentially install it would be the same as dragging 04:55.590 --> 04:59.210 and dropping it into the applications folder once I downloaded it. 04:59.220 --> 05:00.120 But I can now do this. 05:00.290 --> 05:05.010 The power here is I can leverage that same copy job on multiple machines at once. 05:05.310 --> 05:09.840 So the amount of time it took me to do that on one computer, I could do it on hundreds or thousands. 05:12.260 --> 05:18.320 All right, next, we're going to go ahead and talk about the instant installations of pkg files, so 05:18.470 --> 05:20.750 same deal, I'm going to select my machine this time. 05:20.750 --> 05:23.030 I'm actually going to choose, install, not copy. 05:24.260 --> 05:28.010 And it's going to ask me for a specific pkg file I'm going to hit plus to that. 05:28.280 --> 05:34.700 And notice I've got these DMG files, so that doesn't work because I can't actually copy those. 05:34.700 --> 05:40.090 But the file was actually inside that DMG, so I actually need to find that. 05:40.100 --> 05:47.260 Here's my mounted drive, the DMG file out of that virtual disk and here's my Wacom tablet file. 05:47.330 --> 05:48.500 So I'm to choose that. 05:49.990 --> 05:56.590 And because I'm doing install, I have various other options so I can do a restart or not, I'm going 05:56.590 --> 05:57.720 to choose not to restart. 05:57.730 --> 06:02.710 Now, you may have an application, and I'll tell you the way home driver is one where it does actually 06:02.710 --> 06:06.700 require a restart before the user can actually use the driver. 06:06.700 --> 06:09.690 But we're going to go ahead and say don't restart for now. 06:09.730 --> 06:11.160 We'll schedule that at a later date. 06:12.880 --> 06:14.410 You can choose where you want to run this from. 06:14.410 --> 06:17.110 If you have a remote test server, you can actually do that. 06:17.520 --> 06:22.090 I'm going to choose this application because I'm only this is a very small install, only really worried 06:22.090 --> 06:25.540 about it for this this one machine. 06:25.540 --> 06:30.100 But if I was doing this across multiple machines and I want to do other stuff in Apple remote desktop, 06:30.100 --> 06:35.080 I may actually want to choose test server that allows it to copy it in the background while I do other 06:35.080 --> 06:35.440 things. 06:35.860 --> 06:38.550 And then we still have our same questions about encryption stuff. 06:38.590 --> 06:44.470 I'm actually going to uncheck the encrypt network data this time and I'm going to change that back to 06:44.470 --> 06:46.300 this application again. 06:46.300 --> 06:49.780 We can schedule it if we wanted to, but instead I'm going to do the install immediately. 06:50.350 --> 06:55.980 Now I can look at my act tasks and you'll see here is the copy job. 06:55.990 --> 07:02.830 So first it's copying it, the file over and then it's going to execute the file because it can execute 07:02.830 --> 07:05.140 the file with the default install. 07:05.290 --> 07:07.210 It'll run the installer unattended. 07:07.930 --> 07:09.640 So as you can see here, installing. 07:12.800 --> 07:16.060 Expand this out for a test status as well here. 07:18.560 --> 07:20.150 So you can kind of see what's happening. 07:21.320 --> 07:22.970 Registering, added, component's. 07:24.640 --> 07:29.170 So we've got some installation work happening, so not a lot of feedback, but it does give you some. 07:32.320 --> 07:39.160 And we're 100 percent complete and we see that it has succeeded, so I can always, again, remote control 07:39.160 --> 07:39.490 that. 07:43.370 --> 07:45.200 And we'll find out here if. 07:46.940 --> 07:49.640 Wacom tablet is installed there it is. 07:50.820 --> 07:56.910 So that was successful and again, we can leverage multiple machines to do this, really cut down on 07:56.910 --> 07:57.360 some time. 07:58.340 --> 08:01.700 OK, the last one we're going to talk about is one that's a little bit more difficult, and that's when 08:01.700 --> 08:04.880 you're trying to install an application from an application. 08:05.000 --> 08:09.170 So Adobe Flash Player, for example, is an application actually runs on the machine. 08:09.440 --> 08:15.410 And it's custom it doesn't use the default installer that a file would and it's not self-contained. 08:15.410 --> 08:19.590 So I can't just easily copy it into the applications folder and have it actually install. 08:19.910 --> 08:25.010 So we're going to talk a little bit about scripted installs and using UNIX commands later in the course, 08:25.580 --> 08:28.340 because that's really more of an advanced feature of remote desktop. 08:28.760 --> 08:30.270 But we're just dealing with the basics. 08:30.290 --> 08:31.730 There is one way around this. 08:32.150 --> 08:33.550 It's not particularly elegant. 08:33.560 --> 08:38.030 It is still time consuming, but it does get the job done. 08:38.540 --> 08:43.480 It's still a little bit faster than having to walk around and hand download it on each machine. 08:43.490 --> 08:50.720 So this does give you a little bit of a shortcut, but it is in no way really an automated feature or 08:50.720 --> 08:52.830 nearly as slick as installing a CG. 08:53.330 --> 08:54.320 But here's what we're going to do. 08:54.950 --> 09:01.250 We're going to go ahead and do a copy and we're going to hit plus. 09:01.250 --> 09:06.850 And basically what we do is I'm going to find the mounted DMG file for Flash Player. 09:06.860 --> 09:12.890 So my there's my modded virtual disk and I'm going to find the install Adobe Flash Player application 09:12.890 --> 09:17.090 and see it's an application here that I hit to that. 09:17.480 --> 09:19.520 And where does it where do I want it to place? 09:19.730 --> 09:25.430 Well, right now it defaults to current user's desktop folder, and that's OK, because I'd have to 09:25.430 --> 09:29.300 launch it off the desktop and then I'd have to actually delete it and then I have to empty the trash. 09:29.450 --> 09:32.610 So it does create a little bit of extra mess for me to kind of clean up. 09:32.630 --> 09:34.450 So there's a little bit more elegant way of doing that. 09:35.090 --> 09:39.410 I'm going to go ahead and instead specify the temp folder. 09:39.410 --> 09:44.700 And if it's not in your list, you can just do a specified full path and just do a temp. 09:45.020 --> 09:50.830 So if you remember, that's the temp folder in one of the hidden folders inside macros. 09:51.920 --> 09:55.370 So if it already exists, I'm going to just say replace it. 09:55.910 --> 09:57.170 I don't really care about ownership. 09:57.170 --> 10:01.550 And here's one of the key thing here is, is that after copying, go ahead and open. 10:01.550 --> 10:06.590 So I'm going to say after copying open and I'm going to not encrypt this one either, and I'm going 10:06.590 --> 10:07.550 to go ahead and copy. 10:07.730 --> 10:10.610 And you can see it's the start doing the copy here. 10:12.870 --> 10:13.690 So it succeeded. 10:13.710 --> 10:15.570 So what's happened, has it installed? 10:16.140 --> 10:20.600 Well, let's remote into the machine and find out what is what's happening on the client. 10:20.610 --> 10:22.620 So let's go ahead and do a control. 10:25.240 --> 10:31.810 No, it actually hasn't, but what it has done is it has copied the flash player installer to the temp 10:31.810 --> 10:34.200 directory and it's launched the installer. 10:34.510 --> 10:39.970 So I still have to do some things interactively on each of my machines, but I can very quickly go through 10:39.970 --> 10:41.890 the process of doing this. 10:43.830 --> 10:48.660 And now I can go ahead and finish the install that way, and when it's done installing, it's already 10:48.660 --> 10:56.200 in the the the Templer, so it's going to go ahead and eventually delete it on a future reboot. 10:56.430 --> 11:02.100 So not nearly as slick, a little bit more time consuming, but still better than the alternative of 11:02.100 --> 11:06.860 having to run around to do sneaker net or download these individually on each machine. 11:09.840 --> 11:14.370 So those are the three different ways that you can basically install packages using remote desktop, 11:14.370 --> 11:21.330 whether that's pkg files, a copy of an application or a copy to the temp directory and watching it 11:21.330 --> 11:23.340 and then interactively finishing the install.