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Mac OS X Server: Version 10.6 Snow Leopard
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Quick Look at
Snow Leopard Server
During the past ten years, Apple has rapidly delivered new versions of Mac OS X Server,
the world’s easiest-to-use server operating system. The introduction of Mac OS X Server
version 10.6 Snow Leopard brings dramatic performance improvements and innovative
new capabilities to Apple’s open standards–based server platform—making it both fast
and easy for your organization to collaborate, communicate, and share information. And
for ready access to all those advantages, Apple now offers a single affordable edition of
Snow Leopard Server with licenses for an unlimited number of clients.
Snow Leopard Server is a full 64-bit operating system designed to take advantage of
Mac OS X Server version 10.6 multicore processors and address massive amounts of memory. With a new 64-bit kernel
Snow Leopard Server is the seventh and teamed with the latest Xserve or Mac Pro system, Snow Leopard Server can easily
release of Apple’s award-winning server handle the most demanding server operations—including file sharing, mail services,
operating system. and web hosting—at speeds up to twice as fast as its predecessor.
Whether you’re a small business manager with no technical expertise or a veteran
IT director of a large enterprise, you’ll find Snow Leopard Server surprisingly straight-
forward to deploy and manage. Start small with a Mac mini or Mac Pro—then scale
all the way up to a rack or data center full of Xserve systems.
Snow Leopard Server. The simple way to bring more power to your business.
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Mac OS X Server
With Mac OS X Server, Apple extends its legendary ease of use to the configuration,
management, and monitoring of a server. Intelligent interfaces simplify administration
so that even nontechnical users can deploy powerful network services—allowing small
businesses and workgroups without IT support to take full advantage of the benefits
of a server.
Server Preferences
Once you’ve set up your server, the Server Preferences application allows you to
manage users and groups on the server and set up key services such as file sharing,
calendaring, instant messaging, mail, wikis, secure remote access, and backup settings
for network clients.
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Mac OS X Server
1 Select a user to manage that individual’s account, contact information, services, and group
membership.
2 You can see which users have administrative privileges and which are Standard members
of the workgroup.
3 Click to add a user to the server. Or select a user and click to remove that individual.
Server Preferences also makes it easy to maintain your server. Mac OS X Server will notify
you via email when software updates become available, when available disk space is
getting low, or if an email virus has been detected and quarantined.
Adding clients
Adding clients to the network requires no IT expertise. When a new Mac starts up for
the first time, it looks for Mac OS X Server and gives the user the opportunity to take
advantage of any services that have been set up for that individual.
Adding an existing Mac to the network is even easier. Use Accounts in Server Preferences
to connect the Mac to your directory system, and all default services—such as Mail,
iChat, iCal, VPN, and Address Book—are set up and ready for use. Mac OS X Server
keeps these settings updated, so you’ll never need to manually configure or reconfigure
user settings or applications again.
When you create new user accounts in Server Assistant or Server Preferences, Mac OS X
Server automatically sends a message welcoming the users to Mac OS X Server and lists
the services available to them.
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Mac OS X Server
Built-in Services
Whether you’re supporting a creative team, a distributed sales force, a class of multi-
media students, or just about any small business or workgroup, you know your users
need to share information to work effectively. With Mac OS X Server, you can help
them communicate and collaborate using powerful and intuitive new solutions.
At the same time, you can expect Snow Leopard Server to perform many of those
network tasks—such as file sharing, mail services, and web delivery—up to twice as
fast as its predecessor. See page 20 for Performance Benchmarks details.
File Sharing
Edit file permissions Mac OS X Server is the easiest and most cost-effective way for small businesses, class-
Use Server Preferences to set and change rooms, and departments to share files locally or over the Internet. Once you’ve created
file access permissions. With just a click in a a group on your network, the group gets a shared folder on the server, as well as a
checkbox, you can allow or restrict access to
guest folder and a drop box. Whether they’re on Mac or PC systems, all group members
shared folders.
can read and write to files in the shared folder as if they were using their own hard
drives. Built-in file-level locking keeps any Mac or PC from overwriting changes when
a file is opened by more than one user at a time; only the user who unlocked the file
can make changes.
Group collaboration is smoother and productivity is higher when users store work in
centralized folders rather than on individual computers. By centralizing file storage, all
users have access to the same up-to-the-minute files. And since a single version resides
on the server, there’s no concern over multiple versions of the same document. Users
also don’t need to worry about losing important data in the event of system failure or
if a laptop is lost or stolen. The file is always safe on the server.
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Mac OS X Server
Mail Server
Snow Leopard Server introduces a new Mail Server engine that outperforms previous
versions and scales to handle tens of thousands of users. Based entirely on open stan-
dards, Mail Server 2 provides compatibility with your existing network infrastructure—
as well as with email clients on a Mac, PC, and even iPhone. And because there are
no per-user licensing fees with Mac OS X Server, you can add mail accounts without
tapping into your software licensing budget.
suspect email can be quarantined, deleted, or bounced back. As the administrator, you
can choose how aggressively you want Mac OS X Server to deploy junk mail and virus
filtering functions.
iCal Server
Mac OS X Server leverages the power of iCal in Mac OS X, making it easy for work-
groups, small businesses, or large corporations to share calendars and information
about events. Unlike other calendaring solutions, iCal Server requires no per-user fees,
so you don’t have to pay for additional licenses as your business or workgroup grows.
Standards-based calendaring
The CalDAV protocol has been updated to iCal Server finds openings in your colleagues calendars so you can propose meetings
include implicit scheduling, push notifications, during the best possible time slot. Meeting proposers can attach files—such as agendas,
attendee lookups, and the ability to include to-do lists, presentations, or QuickTime movies—to the invitation. Need to reserve a
comments to the organizer. Now supported projector, a particular conference room, or even a car? You can also use iCal Server to
in Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, and iPhone manage the scheduling of these and other resources.
OS, CalDAV continues to gain industrywide
acceptance. Sharing calendars
Push notifications
With push notifications added to the iCal 3
client in Snow Leopard, iCal Server 2 lets
users know the moment a new invitation
is sent or an existing invitation is changed.
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1 When users subscribe to a group calendar, its events show up on their individual calendars in
a separate color.
2 Users can set up meetings, add attendees, find locations, and even attach files to an invitation.
3 Meeting proposers can attach files—such as agendas, to-do lists, presentations, or QuickTime
movies—to the invitation.
4 iCal Server can search the calendars of everyone in the group to find available time.
iChat Server
iChat Server brings the collaborative power of instant messaging to your organization.
Now workgroups can transfer files securely, share a persistent chat room, conduct an
audio conference, or—with the iChat Theater feature in Mac OS X—even broadcast a
presentation, movie, or photo slideshow to other iChat users.
Industry-standard IM
iChat Server uses Jabber, the industry- Group collaboration made easy
standard IM protocol also known as XMPP. iChat in Mac OS X works with Mac OS X Server to automatically populate users’ buddy
Jabber enables support for Mac computers lists with members of the groups to which they belong, so it’s easy for them to start
using iChat, as well as for other Jabber communicating. And thanks to store-and-forward functionality, iChat Server allows
clients running on Windows and Linux users to send messages to buddies who are oπine, combining the advantages of IM
systems, PDAs, and cell phones. and email.
iChat users can request iChat Server to create and host a persistent chat room. Perfect
for virtual-team scenarios, project-specific discussions, and real-time, blow-by-blow
updates, the chat room allows individuals to join at any time, leave when they need
to—even log out and shut down—and still come back to review all communications
from the time the chat room opened.
Web Hosting
Ideal for small businesses, Mac OS X Server takes the complexity out of hosting a
website—no webmaster experience required. Using Server Preferences, it’s easy to
configure the Web Server to host one or more websites and to provide access to key
web services, including wikis, blogs, and web-based calendars and email.
Restricting access
Secure all or part of your website by requiring authenticated access. Using the Server
Preferences application, you can restrict website access to a specific group, such as cus-
tomers, partners, students, or departments. Once configured, users will be prompted to
log in and authenticate whenever accessing content hosted on this area of the site.
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Mac OS X Server
Wiki Server
QuickSearch Mac OS X Server makes it easy for groups to collaborate and communicate through
New in Snow Leopard Server is QuickSearch, their own wiki-powered intranet website, complete with group calendar, blog, and
which lets users search and find information mailing list archive. Users can create and edit wiki pages, tag and cross-reference
in multiple wikis, blogs, mailing lists, calendars, material, upload files and images, and add comments—all from a single place where
and podcasts. everyone on the team can stay up to date. And because the wiki is accessible from any
browser on any platform, group members can always be in touch, whether over the
Internet, on your local network, or on iPhone.
Creating a wiki is quick and easy: Users connect to your server’s website and click
Create Wiki. In three simple steps, you can give your wiki a name, choose a theme,
and assign access privileges—all from inside the browser. Use a selection of 20 Apple-
designed templates to give your wiki a distinctive look. And easy-to-use tools let you
customize your layout with a unique banner and a sidebar that displays page titles.
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1 You and other group members can add, delete, and edit content. As the administrator, you
can specify which members can make changes to the wiki and which can only view it.
2 To make it easier to manage and search group mail, you can use the group’s wiki to maintain
an archive of all mailing list correspondence. Whenever a team member sends a message to
the group address, the mail appears in the mailing list archive.
3 By adding tags to wiki pages, you can use keywords to search the wiki.
4 You and other group members can add comments for each page of your wiki or blog.
5 File attachments can now be viewed right inside the browser using Quick Look. Or you can
download them.
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Mac OS X Server
Any page, tag, or search result can be subscribed to as an RSS feed, so you and your
users can receive notifications when pages are updated, modified, or deleted. Wiki
Server even provides an option for subscribing to a podcast, so anyone who missed
that important conference call can catch up on the news.
Podcast Producer
Podcast Producer takes the complexity out of capturing and publishing professional-
quality podcasts—enabling your organization to produce more podcasts with less work.
Podcasts are ideal for employee training, university lectures, delivering product demos,
or to keep employees, students, and customers up to date. This workflow-based solution
automates the details, so you never have to worry about missing an important step.
Users can capture audio and video, record onscreen actions, or submit existing
QuickTime content to the server. Your video can use one of several Apple-designed
templates, or you can design your own layout. And by standardizing titles, openings,
and effects, the podcasts from your group will always have a consistent identity.
Leveraging QuickTime technology, Podcast Producer encodes media content into most
Internet-standard formats. This means you can publish your content to virtually any
hosting server you want—whether to a blog, to iTunes or iTunes U, to multimedia-
enabled cell phones, or to the new Podcast Library.
Snow Leopard Server adds dual-source video capture capability to Podcast Capture
2, enabling users to create picture-in-picture podcasts. For instance, a camera source
can record a live presenter while an onscreen source records a Keynote or PowerPoint
slideshow. Podcast Producer 2 can even detect inactivity in one of the video sources
and switch video sources automatically so that the active source is displayed in the
larger frame.
The new web capture feature allows users to remotely capture and upload audio
and video to a Podcast Producer server from any modern web browser on a Mac, PC,
or iPhone.
Workflow-based production
At the heart of Podcast Producer is a powerful workflow engine that automates encod-
ing, processing, and publishing. A workflow is a script, or a set of actions that defines
how to handle the recorded video or audio.
Podcast Producer 2 includes the new Podcast Composer, an easy-to-use application for
Instant notification
You and your audience members can easily creating and customizing your workflows. Using an intuitive interface, Podcast Composer
track updates by subscribing to automatic helps you build a workflow by grouping the process into seven stages and guiding you
notifications. As soon as a new podcast is through the steps. You specify everything from import to notification: details about
ready for viewing, an email or iChat message titles, transitions, and effects; which output format to use; and where the podcast is
is sent to all subscribers. published.
Once the workflow has been defined with Podcast Composer, the video is submitted
to your Podcast Producer server for processing according to the workflow.
Podcast Library
The new Podcast Library enables you to organize and archive all your media files.
Podcasts can be delivered using automatically generated RSS feeds or with Atom
feeds, which allow each feed to contain multiple versions or formats of the podcast
for different devices. Using the Podcast Library, iTunes U can consume Atom feeds
from the Podcast Library—permitting one-click setup of iTunes U course pages and
allowing institutions to host their content locally.
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Mac OS X Server
Remote Access
More than likely, your users are rarely at their desks, often working outside the office—
from home, on a different computer, or from an iPhone. Mac OS X Server makes it easy
to secure your organization’s network services and confidential information.
Ideal for Mac and iPhone users, this new service provides always-on, always-secure
access to firewall-protected services from virtually anywhere in the world. As long as
users have an Internet connection, they can connect to corporate websites, online
business applications, email, calendars, and contacts—without using VPN.
Mobile Access Server uses strong SSL encryption and authentication as data travels
across the public Internet to your private network. To reduce unnecessary traffic,
only exchanges with the corporate network are sent through Mobile Access Server.
For extra security, Mobile Access Server lets you limit access to a select set of users
and groups.
Firewall
Mac OS X Server uses an enterprise-strength firewall—called ipfw—to protect your
files, email, wikis, and backups from unauthorized access. The firewall performs
stateful packet analysis, accepting or denying incoming and outbound traffic based
on attributes of that traffic, such as its destination port or originating IP address.
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Mac OS X Server
Using the Security pane in Server Preferences, you can enable a firewall with a single
click and then specify which services users can access from outside the firewall.
Router integration
If you have an AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11n) or a Time Capsule, you can manage
it to protect your network, providing outside access to selected services. Use the Security
pane in Server Preferences—just as you would with the firewall—to specify which services
you want to be accessible from outside your local network. Your AirPort Extreme Base
Station or Time Capsule will be configured to allow incoming requests for those services
to pass to your server. Mac OS X Server even lets you auto-restart the base station
remotely, so new settings will take effect immediately.
Mac OS X Server is designed to integrate with your AirPort Extreme Base Station or
Time Capsule to automate network configuration and setup. NAT port mapping is auto-
matically configured to allow users outside your network to access your server, and DNS
is updated for all DHCP clients on the local network so they can find the server by its
host name.
Time Machine isn’t just for client systems. Use it to back up your server system—complete
with all service data, such as wikis, calendars, mail, and shared files—to another hard drive,
letting you easily restore your network to an earlier configuration.
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Mac OS X Server
64-Bit Performance
Snow Leopard Server is a full 64-bit operating system, complete with 64-bit kernel,
64-bit drivers, and 64-bit applications—all designed to take advantage of multicore
processors and address massive amounts of memory, while remaining fully compat-
ible with 32-bit applications. The new kernel technology combines with breakthrough
amounts of RAM to enable server applications to run faster and more efficiently.
Full UNIX conformance
Mac OS X Server is an Open Brand UNIX 03
Registered Product. This means it conforms to High-Performance Networking
the SUSv3 and POSIX 1003.1 specifications for
Incorporating the latest industry-standard networking and security protocols, Mac OS X
the C API, Shell Utilities, and Threads. Because
Mac OS X Server version 10.6 can compile
Server uses the time-tested BSD sockets and TCP/IP stack to provide compatibility and
and run all existing UNIX 03–compliant code, integration with IP-based networks. A fully multithreaded IP stack and advanced process-
it can be deployed in environments that and thread-scheduling algorithms enable Mac OS X Server to efficiently service requests—
demand full conformance. even when thousands of users are connected to the server.
Mac OS X Server scales automatically to take advantage of the RAM in the latest Xserve
and Mac Pro hardware—up to a theoretical 16TB. Simply add more memory to your
server, and the 64-bit Snow Leopard Server kernel will immediately support more
simultaneous processes, threads, and IP connections. Adding memory also allows the
kernel to reserve its memory for buffers and caches, increasing the overall performance
of all network services.
Process scalability
30,000
64-bit
22,500
15,000
7,500
32-bit
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4GB 8GB 16GB 24GB 32GB 48GB 64GB 96GB
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Mac OS X Server
Performance Benchmarks
Up to twice as fast as its predecessor, Snow Leopard Server easily handles the most
demanding server operations, including file sharing, mail services, and web and
application hosting. From the lowest levels of the kernel to everyday applications,
performance gains are especially noticeable on the latest Intel multicore systems.
Independent companies have verified that network services perform up to twice as
fast as on the previous version of Mac OS X Server.
Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 using a 2.93GHz 8-core Xserve (Early 2009) with 48GB RAM, a 4-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel adapter,
a SmallTree 6-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter, and 4 Promise VTrak E-class RAID arrays, each with sixteen 300GB 15,000-rpm SAS drives, running
a shipping version of Leopard Server v10.5.7 and a prerelease version of Snow Leopard Server.
SMB testing with Leopard Server v10.5.7 reported 19,313 SPECsfs2008_cifs ops per second with an overall response time of 1.89 ms, and testing with
Snow Leopard Server reported 44,347 SPECsfs2008_cifs ops per second with an overall response time of 1.89 ms. SPEC® and the benchmark name
SPECsfs2008™ are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information. Competitive
benchmark results stated here reflect internal Apple testing and were submitted to SPEC in May 2009. Performance tests are conducted using specific
computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Xserve and Mac OS X Server.
NFS testing with Leopard Server v10.5.7 reported 9189 SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 ops per second with an overall response time of 2.18 ms, and testing with
Snow Leopard Server reported 18,784 SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 ops per second with an overall response time of 2.67 ms. SPEC® and the benchmark name
SPECsfs2008™ are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information. Competitive
benchmark results stated here reflect internal Apple testing and were submitted to SPEC in May 2009. Performance tests are conducted using specific
computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Xserve and Mac OS X Server.
AFP file server performance was 1.3 times faster than Leopard Server running the same test. Results are based on the AFPBench benchmark, using up
to 32 physical client systems and making requests simulating typical home directory usage. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer
systems and reflect the approximate performance of Xserve and Mac OS X Server.
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Mac OS X Server
Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 using a 2.93GHz 8-core Xserve (Early 2009) with 48GB RAM, a 4-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel adapter,
a SmallTree 6-port Gigabit Ethernet adapter, and 5 Promise VTrak E-class RAID arrays, each with sixteen 300GB 15,000-rpm SAS drives, running
a prerelease version of Snow Leopard Server.
Apple testing produced results of 28,887 SPECmail_Ent2009 sessions per hour. Testing conducted by Sun Microsystems on a Sun SPARC Enterprise
T5220 produced results of 17,316 SPECmail_Ent2009 sessions per hour. SPEC® and the benchmark name SPECmail2009™ are trademarks of the
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information. For the latest SPECmail2009 results, visit www.spec.org/
osg/mail2009. Benchmark results stated here reflect internal Apple and Sun testing and were published on www.spec.org from March 2009 to June
2009. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of Xserve and Mac OS X Server.
Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 using a 2.93GHz 8-core Xserve (Early 2009) with 48GB RAM running a shipping version of Leopard Server
v10.5.7 (SPECjbb2005 bops = 205,224, SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM = 51,306) and a prerelease version of Snow Leopard Server (SPECjbb2005 bops =
269,977, SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM = 67,494).
SPEC® and SPECjbb2005® are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information.
Competitive benchmark results stated here reflect internal Apple testing and were submitted to SPEC in May 2009. For the latest SPECjbb2005
benchmark results, visit www.spec.org/osg/jbb2005. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate
performance of Xserve and Mac OS X Server.
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Mac OS X Server
Installation & Setup Worksheet How simple is it to configure a server? We invite you to set up Mac OS X Server v10.6
Apple makes it easy to round up your Snow Leopard and find out for yourself. With a fully functioning copy of Mac OS X
important setup information before you Server, you have everything you need to configure and manage a suite of standard
start the installation process. Just fill out the services for a workgroup.
Installation & Setup Worksheet, which you’ll
find in the Documentation folder on your If you haven’t already, consider printing these pages, so you have hard-copy instruc-
installation disc. tions in hand as you step through the test drive.
• Serial Number. Enter the serial number that’s on the card included with your Mac OS X
Server discs. Click Continue.
• Transfer an Existing Server. If you are replacing an existing Mac server, you can connect
to it and transfer its information to the server you’re installing. For the purposes of this
test drive, choose “Set up a new server” and click Continue.
• Registration Information. Fill in your name and contact information. This will register
Security and access controls
Mac OS X Server is designed to be secure
your copy of Mac OS X Server with Apple. Click Continue.
right out of the box—no security expertise is • A Few More Questions. Provide additional information about how you expect to use
required. Included are features that keep your Mac OS X Server. Click Continue.
systems secure, such as advanced security
architectures, a built-in firewall, and strong • Time Zone. Select your time zone. This is very important for accurately capturing times
encryption and authentication technologies. for wiki and blog entries, sent and received emails, and logins and logouts. Click Continue.
• Administrator Account. Create a name, short name, and password for yourself as the
administrator. You can also enable remote access using SSH and Apple Remote Desktop
here. Click Continue.
• Network. This screen allows you to enter the IP address and TCP/IP information provided
to you by your ISP or network administrator. If your connection is already set up, you can
choose Using DHCP without entering additional information. Click Continue.
• AirPort Management. To provide wireless access to your services, Mac OS X Server can
help you manage an AirPort base station on your network. Provide the password for the
base station and click Continue.
• Network Names. For your Primary DNS Name, Mac OS X Server can detect your com-
puter’s IP address from information provided by your Ethernet connection. If it’s not
correct, contact your ISP before finishing configuration. If Mac OS X Server doesn’t
detect an IP address, you can enter your own easy-to-remember name, such as
<myserver.private>. You will also enter a colloquial name—something like <Our Group
Server>. This is how users will see the server on the network. Click Continue.
• Users and Groups. Decide how you would like to manage users and groups on your
server. You can use Open Directory, import users and groups from another directory
server, or configure them manually. For the purposes of this test drive, choose “Create
Users and Groups” and click Continue.
• Services. Select the services that you would like to enable for your server. You can also
choose which drive to store the service data.
• Client Backup. You can allow your users to back up to the server so that they can
restore deleted files or previous versions from their Time Machine backups. Choose
a drive for storing these client backups. Click Continue.
• Mail Options. If you selected Mail on the Services pane, you’ll be asked to provide some
configuration options. Click to relay your mail through your ISP’s outbound mail server.
Just specify the relay server name, such as <relay.ISPname.com>. You also have the
option to customize the welcome email that notifies your users that their accounts have
been set up. Click Continue.
• Review. Before Mac OS X Server configures itself, review the services you’re enabling as
well as other configuration settings. Click Set Up.
• Setting Up. Your server is now ready to use. Click Go to manage accounts and change
settings using Server Preferences.
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Mac OS X Server
Managing services
Mac OS X Server enables all services by default. But with Server Preferences, you can
disable (or reenable) any service by clicking the Off/On switch.
• File Sharing pane. Mac OS X Server prebuilds your server with a Groups folder, as well
as Backups and Public folders in the Shared Items folder. To add to the list of shared
folders, drag a folder or entire hard disk into the window.
This is also where you set file access permissions. Select a folder and click Edit
Permissions to select the users who can access the folder. You can also select an entire
group so that when you add users to a group, they’ll have instant access to the appro-
priate folders. If you want others outside your workgroup to be able to read files, select
the checkbox to allow guest access. Click Save.
• Address Book Server. Using the standard vCard format, Address Book Server allows
everyone in your organization to store their contacts on the server—so you’re not
locked into the fixed schemas of LDAP records. You can choose to constrain the size
of each user’s server-side Address Book.
• iCal pane. You’ll want everyone in your workgroup to benefit from a shared calendar.
iCal Server permits users to add files to events, such as presentations or discussion
documents, so shared calendars can get very large. For this reason, you may want
to constrain the size of any single event or the size of each user’s calendar.
• iChat pane. By default, everyone in your workgroup is everybody’s buddy, making it
easy for users to communicate and collaborate. Also by default, your users can chat
with buddies on other IM servers—though you may choose to restrict this. To watch
for possible abuse, you can also choose to log users’ IM activity and to archive their
chats.
• Mail pane. During your setup with Server Assistant, you may have entered your
company’s relay address for outgoing mail. Server Preferences allows you to edit the
address at any time. For junk mail and virus filtering, you can choose how aggressively
you want Mac OS X Server to respond to questionable incoming mail.
Shortcuts to services • Web pane. Mac OS X Server can create a wiki for your workgroup and any other
Notice the arrow icon after each service. groups you have created. From the default home page, select Create Wiki and specify
Clicking it takes you directly to the shared which services you’d like to enable: Wiki, Calendar, Blogs, and Webmail. Use the pop-
service. For example, click ¢ after “Wiki and up menu to change the default home page to a wiki or My Page—or to your external
blog” and the wiki opens. website, if you have one. Mac OS X Server also gives you a “master switch” to enable or
disable the Web Server.
• VPN pane. The built-in VPN server makes it easy to prevent unauthorized remote
access to your server. It starts by generating a shared secret, which you can choose to
keep hidden—or click Edit to change or to show the actual characters. To configure
your VPN server, Mac OS X Server automatically discovers a range of IP addresses, or
you can enter the IP address yourself. Click Save As, and Mac OS X Server creates a VPN
configuration file. Choose your destination and click Save. You can now email the file to
your users. When they open the file, a VPN setting is created on their systems.
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Mac OS X Server
Product Details
Pricing
Mac OS X Server version 10.6 Snow Leopard is available through the Apple Online
Store, Apple retail stores, and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price
of $499 (U.S.). An unlimited client license supports all of the computers—Mac and
PC—and all the iPhone and iPod touch devices in your organization.
System Requirements
Mac OS X Server requires an Apple server or Mac desktop computer with an Intel
processor; 2GB of physical RAM; and 10GB of available disk space. Some features
have additional system requirements or require additional purchase(s). See
www.apple.com/server/macosx for details.
Additional Resources
For more information about Mac OS X Server and other Apple server solutions,
explore the following Apple websites:
• Documentation: www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/documentation.html
• Training and certification: http://training.apple.com/
• Product support: www.apple.com/support/macosxserver/
• Mailing lists: www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/macos-x-server/
• Product feedback: www.apple.com/feedback/server.html
• Apple product security: www.apple.com/support/security/
• Developer support: http://developer.apple.com/server/
• Mac Products Guide: http://guide.apple.com/uscategories/servers.lasso
• Apple Professional Services: www.apple.com/services/consulting/
• List of Apple press contacts: www.apple.com/pr/contacts/
• Apple web badges: www.apple.com/about/webbadges/
In addition, third parties publish in-depth materials for Mac OS X Server users:
• MacEnterprise.org. Community and resources for administrators deploying Mac OS X
labs in enterprise and higher education environments: www.macenterprise.org.
• Peachpit Press. Books, articles, and technical materials on Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server,
UNIX, and more: www.peachpit.com.
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