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Apple Remote Desktop 3.2 Update

Posted October 18, 2007 at 5:24pm by iClarified · 5460 views
Apple Remote Desktop 3.2 will upgrade Apple Remote Desktop 3.0 or 3.1 installations on Intel or PowerPC Macintosh computers. You can access this update by running Software Update or using the link below!

Apple Remote Desktop 3.2 provides two update packages:
- Apple Remote Desktop 3.2.1 Client
- Apple Remote Desktop 3.2 Admin

Apple Remote Desktop 3.2 allows you to Control or Observe Apple Remote Desktop version 2.0 or later and 3.0 and 3.1 clients.

If you choose not to upgrade your clients to the current version, you will have limited backwards compatibility and will only be able to control/observe computers that are running version 2.1 or later of the client software.

Apple Remote Desktop 3.2 offers numerous improvements, including:

Software distribution
- Improved reliability of Copy Item tasks

Asset management
- Using relative dates in reporting windows now changes to exact dates

Remote control
- Open Application task now launches applications on Intel based clients

Remote assistance
- Accented European characters are now mapped correctly
- Control/Observe windows that are resized by users now retain their dimensions
- Includes Adaptive Quality CODEC to improve screen sharing performance when using slower network connections such as DSL.

Other
- Improved reliability with slow responding DNS servers
- Restoring a minimized Apple Remote Desktop from the Dock now behaves correctly
- OS Version column in computer lists now correctly identifies computers running Mac OS X 10.4.10
- Support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's Remote Management settings in Create Client Installer and Change Client Settings task
- Support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's Remote Management settings in kickstart
- Stop button in task windows now prevents unintentional duplicate tasks from being launched
- Better performance with lists that contain a large number of client computers.

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