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14 Preface About This Guide
You can enable these features by managing Mobility preferences. For more
information, see Chapter 8, “Managing Portable Computers.”
 New managed preferences. Preferences now let you manage Parental Controls,
Dashboard, Front Row, and Time Machine. Existing preferences have been enhanced,
using embedded and detached signatures to prevent the launching of unapproved
applications, giving you more control over the login window, and letting you create
page footers on printed documents. For more information, see Chapter 10,
“Managing Preferences.”
What’s in This Guide
This guide includes the following chapters:
 Chapter 1, “User Management Overview,” highlights important concepts, introduces
user management tools, and tells you where to find additional information about
user management and related topics.
 Chapter 2, “Getting Started with User Management,” provides planning and setup
information to create a user management environment.
 Chapter 3, “Getting Started with Workgroup Manager,” describes how to set up
Workgroup Manager and use its core features.
 Chapters 4, 5, and 6 explain how to use Workgroup Manager to set up users, groups,
computers, and computer groups.
 Chapter 7, “Setting Up Home Folders,” covers creating home folders.
 Chapter 8, “Managing Portable Computers,” details considerations for managing
portable computers.
 Chapter 9, “Client Management Overview,” introduces client management tools and
concepts, such as how to customize a user’s work environment and provide user
access to network resources.
 Chapter 10, “Managing Preferences,” describes how to use Workgroup Manager to
control preference settings for users, groups, computers, and computer groups that
use Mac OS X.
 Chapter 11, “Solving Problems,” helps you address issues involving account creation,
home folder maintenance, preference management, and client setup, and also helps
you solve problems encountered by managed clients.
In addition, the appendix, “Importing and Exporting Account Information,” provides
information you’ll need when you want to transfer account information to or from an
external file.
Finally, the glossary defines terms you’ll encounter as you read this guide.
Note: Because Apple periodically releases new versions and updates to its software,
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