Solutions >> Higher Education

Hi Resolution's two flagship and award-winning products, MacAdministrator and MacPrefect are extensively used in Higher education institutions throughout the world. In the US alone, approximately 80% of Universities have deployed one or both of the products.

From the stand-alone desktop lockdown of MacPrefect to the complete Network Management and control of MacAdministrator (voted Best Education Product, 2002 by Macworld), Hi Resolution has, for nearly 15 years, produced the most advanced, effective and reliable products available to IT Managers and Network Administrators in Education.

Network Managers and Administrators in Higher Education institutions are often faced with unique difficulties when selecting the appropriate software to control and administrate Macintosh computers. Due to the nature and diversity of the courses offered, or the research and development carried out by the institutions, it is often the case that a range of server platforms is in use.

MacAdministrator's unique ability to directly connect Macintosh computers, login, authenticate, mount home folders and group shares on any server platform providing AFP or AFP/IP (for example, Windows NT; Windows 2000 Server; OS X Server, ASIP, Unix; Novell; Linux) and provide the required protection, control and administration of users and machines has made the product the first choice in Higher Education establishments.

All users of personal computers change settings, delete and rename files, copy applications, play games and cause chaos on carefully set-up machines - sometimes deliberately, but mostly by accident. Loss of productive work-time can mount up for both the administrator and students. Whether you count the loss of money and employees' time spent restoring a machine to the required state, or something that can't be regained - the student's education - these losses can and should be avoided.

MacPrefect provides the same desktop protection standards as MacAdministrator on a machine-by-machine basis. It has proved extremely popular in situations where a computer in general use requires protection standards but does not need a login, authentication or network administration. For instance, computers used in a library.

MacAdministrator's software distribution, remote commands, access logs and software and hardware audit complete the required functionality for the Network Administrator to ensure that all of the computers are controlled and maintained as required. Furthermore, the flexibility of the software provides the means to add bespoke functionality. For example, the scripting of processes that may be added to the agent control, associated with user or machine groups and set to run as required.

We believe that proper control and administration is about improving, not limiting the users' experience and empowering the people who manage the computers and networks with relevant, flexible and extremely powerful software solutions.

Hi Resolution delivers huge savings in time and money through its comprehensive functionality and minimizing downtime by maintaining both machine and network integrity.