Apple Remote Desktop 3 - Manual (Page 4)

4 Technology Overview
Apple Remote Desktop 3
What’s New in Apple Remote Desktop 3
Built to leverage the powerful capabilities in Mac OS X Tiger, the world’s most
advanced operating system, Apple Remote Desktop 3 offers more than 50 new
features for managing networked Mac OS X systems. These include:
• Remote Spotlight search. With the revolutionary Spotlight technology in Mac OS X
Tiger, you can perform lightning-fast searches on remote systems. Summary results
for each client are updated instantly as results are returned. Administrators can view
details or refine searches further using additional qualifiers on different types of
metadata. Results can be viewed on remote client systems, copied back to the
administrator system, or deleted.
• Remote Desktop widget. This new Dashboard widget provides you with instantaneous,
at-a-glance views of remote computers in your system. The Remote Desktop widget is
fully integrated with the computer lists that you’ve defined in Apple Remote Desktop.
• Automator actions. Apple Remote Desktop 3 includes more than 30 Automator
actions. Administrators can chain actions together to create powerful system
administration workflows. Save your Automator workflows as plug-ins to provide
an easy, customized interface to Apple Remote Desktop capabilities.
• Remote Drag and Drop. Transfer files between two computers easily by dropping a
file or folder from your computer onto a remotely controlled computer—or from a
remote computer onto your own.
• Remote Copy and Paste. Copy and paste information between your local computer
and a remote computer.
• AutoInstall. With automatic, policy-based installation of software packages, you can
stage software to install on remote, mobile, or offline systems. AutoInstall is ideal for
distributing software to mobile computers.
• Power Copy. A new file copy engine uses multicast technology and supports 64-bit
file sizes, network bandwidth limits, and optional encryption of data streams. A new
permissions editor can specify the user and group ownership permissions of a copied
file on a remote computer.