Today, we're going to start talking about Apple remote desktop or HD for short Apple remote desktop
is available from Apple in the App Store.
So we'll open the App Store up and search for Apple remote desktop.
There it is.
So abnormal desktops available for about 80 bucks, which may seem kind of expensive for the App Store,
but it actually has a lot of good features and well worth the money.
If you've got a small business or a small number of Macs that you need to manage, it's not quite as
robust if you need to use it for managing an enterprise group of machines or, you know, multiple Macs
across multiple locations.
It does have some good features using some Unix commands, which we'll talk about later on in the class.
But for today, I'm going to just kind of talk through some of the basics of JRD and how to manage more
of a small business group and get familiar with the built in tools.
So the first thing we'll do is just go ahead and download it.
Now it's finished, downloading will go ahead.
Let's close the App Store.
I'm actually just going to open it up through.
Applications, I'm going to pull it onto the docs, I'm going to use a lot, so I'm moving in here.
Now, upon first launching, we're going to have to step through some things, terms and services,
obviously.
All right, the first thing is going to ask you is to create a password, and that's basically to safeguard
the data that you have, this will basically be if you want to install this on client machines, for
example, so you can remote manage the max from any machine in your in your environment.
You can install it and then you can password protect the application itself.
If you're going to do that, you probably want to remove it from the keychain.
But for our purposes, we're just going to go ahead.
And keep the default, because I'm the only one using this machine.
We'll talk about test servers at a later date.
So I'm just going to go ahead and skip past that.
But essentially, what you can do is set up a test server so that the jobs that you run on and actually
get queued up and actually executed and managed from another machine to free up the interface for you
to do multiple things instead of having to continue to wait.
It's also good if you want to schedule tasks to run at a later date, but you may not have your computer
on or be sitting in front of your computer with and running.
So we can actually, as I says, we can change this in the preferences later.
So we'll do that at a later later time.
So I'm just going to head next to that and then report collection.
We're going to go ahead and have it collect all this data by default.
So that's good.
We'll talk more about that in the future as well.