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It gives you the power to manage Mac systems from anywhere on your network or remotely across the Internet.
It can reduce administrative costs and enhance productivity in any environment. Apple Remote Desktop enables a teacher to keep an eye on all the computer screens in a classroom or lab, distribute software upgrades, perform group demos, and provide online assistance with real-time text communications for students needing individual attention.
In a business environment, Apple Remote Desktop can reduce administration costs and enhance productivity throughout your company. It includes tools system administrators can use to assist users with problems, distribute software, and efficiently manage Macintosh systems - all from a central location, and over both wired and wireless networks.
Apple Remote Desktop helps you to reduce downtime and let people be more productive.
Features:
Remote Spotlight Search
Dashboard widget
Automator actions
AutoInstall
Curtain mode
Remote drag-and-drop
Power Copy
System Status Indicators
Application Usage Report
User History Report
Smart Computer Lists
Task Templates
What's New:
The 3.7.2 update is recommended for Apple Remote Desktop users and addresses several issues related to overall reliability, usability and compatibility. This update also provides:
Fixed scanner issue causing wrong IP addresses to be displayed
Changes to view order of screens in multi-observe mode
Support for OS X Mavericks
Automatic copy and paste between local and remote computers
Improved support for Mac systems with multiple displays and multiple IP addresses
Enhanced multi-observe with gesture support for swiping between screens
Improves overall reliability of the Remote Desktop application and screen sharing sessions
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I doubt this a 'problem' with the mac as such nor does it have anything to do with Remote Desktop for Mac which is an entirely different product and for which this forum is for. Questions about RDC for Mac should be put on the relevant Microsoft forum rather than here. However your problem may be with your understanding of the secure remote connections requirements between your server and remote connections. I doubt you'd be aware of any of this as generally server administrators won't necessarily discuss them. By default a mac will not have server-client trust certificates installed simply because the exchange won't happen transparently between an MS based server and non MS-OS such as OS X.
You begin to solve the problem by asking your server administrator for the server's root certificate. He/she has to export this using the built-in tools. They should know how to do this? Once exported save it to a memory stick, insert it into your mac, double click on the .cer file and when prompted install it as a system keychain. On further prompts make sure you select 'Always Trust'. Launch RDC for Mac and you should be OK?
If your server administrator does not know how or, worse still, won't do this for you, then you have far deeper problems that go well beyond OS X in particular and IT as a whole in general.