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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
To apply an option set on the local computer
1
In the pcAnywhere Manager window, on the left navigation bar, click Option
Sets.
2
In the right pane, right-click the option set file that you want to use, and then
click Apply to Local System.
Setting product installation options
Symantec Packager lets you specify product installation options, which vary by
product and by the features that you have included in the product configuration.
There are other installation options that you can control at the package level.
These include installation mode, restart, logging, and rollback options.
For more information, see the Symantec Packager online Help.
Symantec pcAnywhere lets you customize the following installation options:
Lets you specify a unique description for the productDescription
Lets you select the directory in which you want to
install the product on the target computer
See “Changing the target installation directory”
on page 31.
Target location
Prompts users to register the product when they start
the program for the first time
See “Prompting users to register upon startup”
on page 32.
Start online registration at startup
Lets you select the host configuration file that you
want to use as a template for new host connection
items that the user creates after installation
See “Selecting the default template for host
connections” on page 32.
Host object to use as template
Lets you select a host connection item to start
automatically when the user on the target computer
starts Windows
See “Selecting the default template for host
connections” on page 32.
Host object to start with Windows
Creating custom installation packages
Customizing product settings
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