Manufacturer's Description
Small businesses and workgroups without an IT department can take advantage of Leopard Server's ability to automatically configure Leopard clients for use on the server, including file sharing, Mail, iCal, iChat, Address Book and VPN. Leopard Server also includes a new setup interface with a built-in Network Health Check, a new Server Preferences application and a server status Dashboard widget.With the wiki server, groups can easily create and edit collaborative web pages, called wikis, with a few clicks of a mouse. The wiki server also maintains a complete history to restore previous entries and merge or compare different versions. Podcast Producer is the easiest way for anyone to record content, automatically upload it to the server and convert it into a podcast. Using Xgrid, Podcast Producer can leverage Macs on the network to encode the video, and the podcast can then be delivered over the Internet to a blog, iTunes, or even to multimedia enabled mobile phones over high-speed wireless networks using QuickTime Streaming Server.Apple has made scheduling across different calendar programs simple with iCal Server to coordinate events, schedule meetings and track time more effectively. iCal Server uses the open CalDAV standard for integration with leading calendar programs, including iCal 3 in Leopard, Mozilla's Sunbird and OSAF's Chandler. In addition, Apple's Directory makes it easy to search for people in an organization and view their contact information, picture, colleagues, groups and even see a location map.Spotlight Server takes Spotlight's lightning-fast desktop search capability to the network server level. Designed for workgroups with shared documents, projects and files, Spotlight Server delivers search results of content stored on mounted network volumes. Content indexing is done automatically and transparently on the server so searches are always fast and up-to-date.Leopard Server's core services, including Apache 2, MySQL 5, Postfix, Cyrus, Podcast Producer and QuickTime Streaming Server are 64-bit, allowing users to take full advantage of their 64-bit hardware's performance and processing power and work with larger data sets. Since Leopard Server is fully 32-bit compatible, users can run 32-bit and 64-bit applications natively side-by-side. Leopard Server is also optimized to take full advantage of Intel's latest multi-core processors.
Product Description
The Mac OS X Server unlimited-client edition is perfect for classroom labs, creative professionals and medium-to-large workgroups with high volumes of file sharing activity.64-bit computingMac OS X Server brings the power of 64-bit to mainstream server computing. With access to massive amounts of memory through 64-bit addressing and high performance, super accurate math calculations, Mac OS X Server is the ideal platform for the most demanding scientific, technical and creative compute needs.Cross-platform file and print servicesNative file and print services for Mac, Windows and Linux are built in so you can give everyone access to storage space on the server and shared Postscript and raster inkjet printers. You can even host home directories on the server, allowing users to access their documents and personal settings from any platform, anywhere on the network. Mac OS X Server is the ultimate platform for file sharing in mixed-platform workflows with support for the native rich file permissions of both Mac OS X and Windowsa capability unprecedented on any UNIX- or Linux-based platform.Directory services and authenticationMac OS X Server features the Open Directory server, a robust, scalable directory services architecture based entirely on open standards. The integrated authentication authority uses Kerberos to provide strong authentication and single sign-on to authorized network resources. The Open Directory server features integrated NT Domain services--using Samba 3--for providing Windows workgroups with login and authentication services, roaming profiles, and network home directories. Open Directory can be replicated across multiple network servers for scalability and maximum service availability.Web hostingMac OS X Server adds an intuitive interface to the open source Apache web server, making it easy to host reliable, high-performance websites. It features a front-end cache that improves performance of static HTML pages, as well as built-in support for coll
