Dave Clark.com » OSX Leopard Server http://daveclark.com Church Media & Tech Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:15:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 first thoughts with Mac OSX Leopard Server http://daveclark.com/post/first-thoughts-with-mac-osx-leopard-server/ http://daveclark.com/post/first-thoughts-with-mac-osx-leopard-server/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:19:40 +0000 Dave Clark http://thedigitalreformation.com/?p=92 I just spent a few hours going through Leopard Server which I installed on a brand new Mac Mini and I must say I am extremely impressed!  I wish our Windows SBS 2k3 was as easy to administer and setup as this baby.  The UI is extremely intuitive and very easy to navigate. I have been watching some tutorials on basics of getting different services going.  So far so good…  I’ll post some more on it after I get it rolling natively in its new environment.  (doing this for another church)

Biggest problem I can see right now for implementing Lepord server in an enterprise environment is with PC’s using Outlook to manage calendar. (which are most) Outlook does not support CalDAV. Which is the open source protocol used by the OSX iCal server and which is endorsed by just about everybody under the sun. Except Microsoft of course.  So a PC user would have to use another app for calendar sync and sharing with the iCal Server.  Not a huge deal for some and there are rumors that Microsoft might bend and develop something for Outlook compatibility. But for now Mozilla has some nice apps out for both PC and MAC which play nicely with CalDAV. link

Everything else so far is pretty rad

  • jabber server
  • SMB & AFP mounts
  • Open Directory rocks!
  • VPN is cool
  • Easy to use DNS, DHCP

I’ll post more later as I peel the layers off this thing.

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