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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 import the pcAnywhere.adm file for Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista
1
On the Windows taskbar, click Start > Run, and then type the following:
gpedit.msc
2
In the console window, in the left pane, select the Group Policy object for
which you want to set policies.
3
Under the Group Policy object, right-click Administrative Templates, and
then click Add/Remove Templates.
4
In the Add/Remove Templates window, click Add.
5
Browse to the location of the pcAnywhere.adm file, select it, and then click
Open.
6
In the Add/Remove Templates window, click Close.
Managing user policies
Symantec pcAnywhere lets you control whether users can access certain portions
of the user interface or perform certain functions in pcAnywhere.
Table 6-5 lists information about the policy settings that pcAnywhere lets you
control.
Table 6-5
Location of pcAnywhere policy settings
DescriptionFolder
Contains policy settings to prohibit users from doing
the following:
■ Launching the pcAnywhere Manager window,
which is the main user interface for pcAnywhere
■ Launching host objects, thereby starting a host
session
■ Launching remote objects, thereby connecting to
a host computer
■ Cancelling a host computer that is running
■ Using the keyboard or mouse on the host computer
during a session
■ Using LiveUpdate to download product updates
■ Registering the product online
■ Starting a chat session
■ Using file transfer and command queue features
Actions
99Managing security in Symantec pcAnywhere
Implementing policy-based administration