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Table Of Contents
- Symantec pcAnywhere™ Administrator's Guide
- Technical Support
- Contents
- 1. Planning a migration and upgrade strategy
- 2. Creating custom installation packages
- 3. Deploying Symantec pcAnywhere custom installations
- 4. Performing centralized management
- About centralized management
- Managing pcAnywhere hosts remotely
- Installing the pcAnywhere Host Administrator tool
- Adding the Host Administrator snap-in to MMC
- Creating a configuration group
- Adding computers to a configuration group
- Configuring administrator host and remote connection items
- Configuring a host item in pcAnywhere Host Administrator
- Distributing pcAnywhere configuration files
- Managing hosts in a configuration group
- Integrating with Microsoft Systems Management Server
- About the Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
- About centralized logging
- 5. Integrating pcAnywhere with directory services
- 6. Managing security in Symantec pcAnywhere
- Index
Table 2-2
Symantec pcAnywhere product configuration options
SettingsTab
You can customize the following features in
pcAnywhere such as:
■ User interface (pcAnywhere Manager)
■ Remote components
■ Host components
■ Communications protocols
■ Documentation (online manuals and Help)
■ Symantec installation utilities
Features
The pcAnywhere product template includes default
remote and host configuration items that you can
configure after you install the package or custom
product.
You can add configuration files that you create in
pcAnywhere to the package or custom product
configuration for further customization.
Configuration Files
You can customize the following product installation
options for pcAnywhere:
■ Product description
■ Target location
■ Start online registration at startup
■ Host object to use as a template
■ Host object to start with Windows
■ Remote object to use as a template
■ Run LiveUpdate after installation
■ Preserve existing configuration settings
Installation Options
After you select the product features, installation options, and optional
configuration files to include in your custom product, you can build it for testing
purposes. Building the product configuration file creates a Microsoft Installer
(.msi) file. Symantec Packager supports the installation of pcAnywhere .msi and
.exe files.
See “Building a product configuration file” on page 38.
19Creating custom installation packages
Customizing product settings