Customizing Away Manager; Away Manager Overview; Installing The Away Manager Program - Lenovo ThinkPad T60 Manual

Customizing Away Manager

The Away Manager Customization Guide is intended for administrators in a large
enterprise environment. The Away Manager program provides features that can be
customized for large enterprise use.
This guide offers information on the following areas:
v Installing the Away Manager program
v Adding a new task to a task list
v Placing a task in whisper mode
This guide also supplements the Away Manager help system, which provides
step-by-step instructions on how to perform specific end-user tasks within the Away
Manager program.

Away Manager Overview

There are a number of challenges that users face today in keeping their computers
healthy from a maintenance and a security perspective. Some anti-virus and backup
applications offer scheduling capabilities, but others do not. Even simple tasks take
a long time when anti-virus and backup applications are running.
The Away Manager program solves these problems by providing system
maintenance and security applications that run at the user's convenience. This
allows users to start the Away Manager program and have it run these maintenance
tasks in sequence while they are away from their computer.
The Away Manager program also enables users to run tasks in whisper mode,
which automatically limits the resources used to run the selected maintenance tasks
based upon the level of resources you specify. The whisper mode feature
maximizes the performance of the selected tasks while working to minimize the
impact on the performance of other applications.
The tasks available through the Away Manager 1.0 program include:
v Symantec Antivirus scan
v Symantec Quick scan
v Windows
v Windows Defragment operation
v ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery backup operation
v Windows Backup operation

Installing the Away Manager program

Away Manager 1.0 is a standard feature on select ThinkPad
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install Away Manager as a stand-alone application, you can download and install
the Away Manager program as follows:
1. Close any open programs.
2. Go to the
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