Symantec PCANYWHERE - V12.5 Service manual

Symantec pcAnywhere™

Administrator's Guide

Symantec pcAnywhere™Administrator's Guide

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Technical Support ............................................................................................... 3

Chapter 1 Planning a migration and upgrade strategy .................. 11

About migrations and upgrades ...................................................... 11

Migrating from pcAnywhere 12.1 to 12.5 in Windows

2000/2003/2008 Server/XP to ( ) ......................................... 13

Migrating from pcAnywhere 12.0.2 in Windows 2000/2003

Server/XP to Vista ............................................................ 13

Using Symantec Packager to streamline migrations and upgrades ........ 13

Chapter 2 Creating custom installation packages .......................... 15

About Symantec Packager ............................................................. 15

What you can do with Symantec Packager ........................................ 16

How Symantec Packager works ....................................................... 16

Importing a product module ........................................................... 18

Customizing product settings ......................................................... 18

Selecting product features ....................................................... 19

Including configuration files .................................................... 21

Integrity stamping a product configuration ................................ 23

Serializing a pcAnywhere installation ........................................ 25

Managing configuration settings globally ................................... 27

Setting product installation options .......................................... 29

Creating a custom command .......................................................... 34

Creating installation packages ........................................................ 35

Adding products and commands to a package definition ................ 36

Building product installations and packages ...................................... 37

Building a product configuration file ......................................... 37

Building a package ................................................................. 38

Testing packages ......................................................................... 38

Chapter 3 Deploying Symantec pcAnywhere custom

installations .................................................................... 41

About deployment ........................................................................ 41

About package installation file locations .......................................... 42

Contents

Deploying installation packages using Web-based deployment ............. 43

About Web-based deployment requirements ............................... 43

Setting up the installation Web server ....................................... 44

Customizing the deployment files ............................................. 47

Testing the installation on the Web server .................................. 51

Notifying users of the download location .................................... 51

Deploying pcAnywhere using SMS 2.0 ............................................. 52

Minimum requirements for SMS deployment .............................. 53

Deploying with SMS ............................................................... 53

Using Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server/XP/Vista logon scripts ........... 56

Setting up the Windows server ................................................. 56

Writing the Windows logon script ............................................. 56

Testing the Windows logon script ............................................. 58

Using NetWare logon scripts .......................................................... 58

Setting up the Novell NetWare server ........................................ 58

Writing the NetWare logon script ............................................. 59

Testing the NetWare logon script .............................................. 60

Chapter 4 Performing centralized management ............................. 61

About centralized management ...................................................... 61

Managing pcAnywhere hosts remotely ............................................. 61

Installing the pcAnywhere Host Administrator tool ...................... 62

Adding the Host Administrator snap-in to MMC .......................... 63

Creating a configuration group ................................................. 63

Adding computers to a configuration group ................................ 64

Configuring administrator host and remote connection

items ............................................................................. 64

Configuring a host item in pcAnywhere Host Administrator .......... 67

Distributing pcAnywhere configuration files ............................... 67

Managing hosts in a configuration group .................................... 68

Integrating with Microsoft Systems Management Server ..................... 69

Importing the package definition file into SMS ............................ 69

About the Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model

(DCOM) ................................................................................ 69

Implementing DCOM in Windows 2000/2003/2008

Server/XP/Vista ............................................................... 70

Modifying DCOM settings ........................................................ 70

About AwShim ...................................................................... 71

About centralized logging .............................................................. 72

Monitoring performance using SNMP traps ................................ 72

About the pcAnywhere MIB file ................................................ 73

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Chapter 5 Integrating pcAnywhere with directory services .......... 75

About directory services ................................................................ 75

Using directory services with pcAnywhere ........................................ 75

Configuring the directory servers .................................................... 76

Configuring the LDAP server .................................................... 76

Configuring Windows Active Directory ...................................... 76

Configuring pcAnywhere to use directory services ............................. 80

Setting up directory services in pcAnywhere ............................... 80

Setting up the host computer to use directory services .................. 81

Setting up the remote computer to use directory services .............. 82

Chapter 6 Managing security in Symantec pcAnywhere ............... 83

Controlling access to pcAnywhere hosts ........................................... 83

Limiting connections to specific computer names or IP

addresses ....................................................................... 84

Leveraging centralized authentication in pcAnywhere .................. 85

Protecting session security ............................................................ 88

Configuring pcAnywhere to use public-key encryption on

Windows Vista/2008 Server ............................................... 90

Maintaining audit trails ................................................................. 91

Implementing policy-based administration ....................................... 91

Implementing Group Policy in Windows 2000/2003/2008

Server/XP/Vista ............................................................... 91

Importing the pcAnywhere administrative template ..................... 92

Managing user policies ............................................................ 92

Index .................................................................................................................... 97

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