Before you can start managing your clients with Apple remote desktop, you do have to turn on the Apple
remote desktop management service on those client machines.
So we're going to do that now.
First, you go up to the system preferences, you go to sharing and you find remote management and you
can see by default remote management is off.
I have my computer's name here.
It's going to use the friendly name when it populates the information into remote desktop.
So double check the computer name.
You don't want 20 machines, all called administrators, Mac.
Then you can go in here and say, we're going to turn remote management on, you can see when I check
that box, this turns on here, I can click on options if it doesn't prompt me to choose what things
I want administrators using remote desktop to do with this computer.
So I'm going to go ahead and turn all these on.
But you can see, observe, control show and being observed.
Generate reports, quit and open applications, change settings, delete and replace items, start text
chat or send messages, restart or shut down and copy items.
So, you know, one of the things you may want to look at when you're choosing these things, certainly
if you're just the sole administrator in your environment, you can have them all turned on.
But you may want to limit remote desktop for just maybe lab assistants or something.
And you don't want them to be able to do all these things, but you may want them to be able to control
a machine here or there if they're helping a user at, say, a helpdesk.
So you can choose which of these settings you want to enable for your various different scenarios.
I'm going to go ahead and add to that.
The other option I want to show is under computer settings.
So you can do a couple of different things that are computer settings, I want to point out first is
this computer information?
So these are four basically blank wild card options for asset management.
And you'll see a little bit later on we'll we'll talk about the system overview report, where these
actually get populated when you're interacting with machines and Apple remote desktop.
So one of the things I like to do because my organization has an asset sticker on every one of our machines,
and sometimes it's difficult to know when you're talking to a user what asset they're actually listed
that or I may want to do a report and kind of true of my asset listing and I need those asset stickers
without having to go visit every single machine across the the enterprise.
So I go ahead and just enter this in while I'm setting this up.
So my machine is.
There's my asset sticker number and I'm going to leave these other ones blank.
Now I'll know what my asset tag is whenever I am interacting with these machines next.
You can show the remote management status in the menubar.
And when you turn that on, you can also choose to allow anyone to request permission to control the
screen.
I'm going to leave that off and I'm really Vincey off.
I'm going to hit OK to that.
You can see when I hit OK, it created a little binoculars icon up here.
And click on that.
You'll see there's some options here.
You can actually right now we don't have a remote desktop console running on the local area network.
But once I do, my users could actually go in here and send a message to the system administrator,
the person running the remote desktop console.
And you can see here if you need to request access or help.
So this can also function in a limited role as sort of a help desk for users who may want to reach out
to someone running Apple remote desktop with a question and even could take control of their machine
or assist them that way as well.
Again, that probably great for enterprise, but in a small business environment could be very handy.
So I'm going to go ahead and turn that actually off.
So I'm going to uncheck that because I want people to actually use my enterprise help desk and those
policies and preferences and now will be able to add this client machine to our remote desktop console.