Marketing description

Apple Remote Desktop 3, the desktop management system for Mac OS X has more than 50 features that deliver improvements in software distribution, asset management, and remote assistance. Apple Remote Desktop 3 offers a wide range of high performance features, including lightning-fast Spotlight searches across multiple systems; more than 40 Automator actions for easy automation of repetitive tasks; a dashboard widget that provides quick and convenient observation of remote systems; and AutoInstall for automatically updating software on mobile systems once they return to the network.

Key selling points

• First-class upgrades
• Automation for your Macs
• No need to make house calls
• Reporting for duty

Product features

• First-class upgrades
  Installing software or updates to your network has never been this easy. Take an existing package, either from Apple or a third party, and simply use the install package to copy and install on your client computers. And it works with custom install packages as well. Apple Remote Desktop will alert your system's users to upgrades and even restart machines remotely.
• Automation for your Macs
  Those time-consuming administrative tasks will become a thing of the past, thanks to the addition of Automator actions in Apple Remote Desktop 3. To use Automator actions, all you need to do is drag and drop the actions to construct a workflow.
• No need to make house calls
  The screen-sharing features of Apple Remote Desktop allow you to provide immediate help to remote users, saving time for both of you. Don't want your admin tasks to be seen? No problem. Turn on the curtain mode to block the local user's view of their desktop. This is perfect when you're updating a public display. You'll have full control of the system, but your work will be hidden from view.
• Reporting for duty
  The Remote Spotlight search takes advantage of one of the most powerful features of Mac OS X. Now you can perform lightning-fast, user-specified searches on remote client systems. Files from the results can be copied to the administrator system for reporting.