During set-up you can select "LAUNCHER Office Administration Tools", if you are entitled with Administration Rights at that time.
Use 'Start' Menu and then "LAUNCHER Office – Administration" in order to launch Administration from a remote station.
The User interface looks like Administration Tool interface launched with "LAUNCHER Office" icon but with more tabs :
• "Local Configuration" : allows to control the local LAUNCHER Office instance, hidden or not.
• "Network Configuration" : allows to remote control any LAUNCHER Office version 2 within the local network.
Remote control introduces several limitations :
• The user must be entitled with Network Administration Rights to see the supplementary tabs.
• The LAUNCHER Office instance to control must be running and 'iconised' in order to be remote controlled.
• The LAUNCHER Office instance to control shall not be already under control.
The list of LAUNCHER Office instances that can be remote controlled will be displayed (according to the above mentioned criteria's) if the Remote Control Tab is selected. A click on the chosen machine allows access to its configuration.
This list only contains the local network machine mask. To control others machines, it is necessary to modify the launcher.ini file of the machine to modify (see section 'Configuration file').
The General Tab displays : system version, LAUNCHER Office version, and Launcher.ini file path.
General Tab also displays the current operating mode : connected or unconnected. Unconnected mode means that no LAUNCHER Office instance were found in the current operation (example : no LAUNCHER Office running on the local machine). In this case the administrator version appears.
The configuration may be read and modified from remote. Warning! Modifying some options induces automatic LAUNCHER Office restart, ending the connection with the client. This may have consequences if LAUNCHER Office is currently used.
The properties inducing automatic restart if applying modifications are as follow :
• Terminal Services connection mode
• Terminal Services local name (in Terminal Services mode)
• AS/400 name or IP address (in Terminal Services mode)
• Messaging system type
• Lotus Notes password
• MAPI profile name
A LAUNCHER Office instance can be controlled in NT Service from a local station or a local network station.
If you operate from a Terminal Services server, an additional tab appears : "Users Configuration". It allows to modify the local launcher.ini files for each users who have been once connected to the machine (in this case LAUNCHER Office does not need to be running).
In unconnected mode, (example if LAUNCHER Office local instance could not be found), configuration can anyway be modified, writing in this case, directly in launcher.ini. file. This is the operating mode on "Users configuration" tab.