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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
Implementing policy-based administration
Administrators can securely customize the look and behavior of pcAnywhere
through centralized policy-based administration. Symantec pcAnywhere supports
Group Policy in Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista.
Administrator rights are required to modify policy settings in Windows 2000/2003
Server/XP/Vista.
Implementing Group Policy in Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista
You must use the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Group Policy snap-in to
administer group policy in Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista. To manage
policy for a site, domain, or organizational unit, you should open Group Policy
from Active Directory, and then link the Group Policy object to the appropriate
Active Directory container. The operating system provides a software wizard to
guide you through this process.
For more information about adding the Group Policy snap-in to MMC, see the
online documentation for your operating system.
Symantec pcAnywhere defines policy settings in an administrative template. After
you add the Group Policy snap-in to MMC, you must import the pcAnywhere.adm
file into MMC.
See “Importing the pcAnywhere administrative template” on page 98.
Importing the pcAnywhere administrative template
Symantec pcAnywhere provides administrative templates for Windows 2000/2003
Server/XP/Vista to support registry-based policy management. The
pcAnywhere.adm files define the policy settings for certain components in
pcAnywhere. These settings include registry keys and values, the location in which
the registry settings will be written, and other descriptive information.
Importing the pcAnywhere.adm file for Windows 2000/2003
Server/XP/Vista
The pcAnywhere.adm file for Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista is located on
the pcAnywhere CD in the Tools\Policy folder. You can copy this file to a secure
location, and then import it into MMC. Before you import this file, ensure that
you have added the Group Policy snap-in to MMC.
For more information about how to add the Group Policy snap-in to MMC, see the
online documentation for your operating system.
Managing security in Symantec pcAnywhere
Implementing policy-based administration
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