LinkedIn Mac Users Group

As the representative from LIMUG I attended the Snow Leopard Server seminar yesterday at the World Trade Center in Portland Oregon.

This Snow Leopard Server seminar was sponsored by Mac force and Apple. One of the things that they brought up to begin the seminar was the fact that the Snow Leopard operating system actually had 90% of the internal workings updated and changed.

After the above tidbit of information they want to tell us about Snow Leopard Server. The information included Grand Central Dispatch, open CL, Microsoft Exchange, and Leverage Power.

Snow Leopard Server was actually a major new release of the OS as compared to Snow Leopard as the client operating system. I’m following up the rest of this post with my notes. These notes are in no way complete but will be offered to you in quasi bullet format.

UNIX core
Standards
OpenSource
Wide variety of client support
iPhone and iPod touch

Services easier to deploy an manage

Look at Microsoft
Number of products
Windows Small Business Server 2 flavors {standard and premium)
Pricing:
Base price + per client

Windows Essential Business Server
same pricing structures

Windows Server comes in 4 flavors standard – enterprise – data center – web server
same pricing structures with more add ons

One Flavor of Mac OSX Server $499
Totally expandable No more extra $

Totally 64-bit Operating System – Snow Leopard Server
64-bit kernel

• memory limit up to 16 billion GB
• preform more operations / processes (determined by available ram in machine)
• up to twice as fast (2.3x)

64-bit Operating System

Setup

• networking
• setup server
• configure clients

Automatic Network Integration

• IP address configuration
• DNS and SJCP
• port mapping

Open Directory
Active Directory Integration.

Services (simple and easy)

Next Steps

Demo (They played tag team between straight info and a demo)

Server setup Demonstration
(It will migrate from an old existing server)
DHCP is not a bad thing anymore. AirPort Extreme holds a reserved IP Address
You can:

• store service data on a different partition
• send out welcome messages to all users

Back to Presentation

Server Preferences

• Small businesses, and departmental workgroups
• (similar to System Preferences)
• control all user from this panes

Server Admin

• IT departments basic tools
• Access the guts of the system
• create and manage “smart” groups
• advanced controls

Back to Demo

Server up and running with a limited amount of screens and time.

Next Steps document created for each install. It gives you detailed information on what is working and not working in PDF format.

Handle each and every user from the Users panel within the Server Preferences.

Groups

Web Server

Security (configures your base station automatically)

Back to the Presentation

Clients:
New machines will automatically be configured for the network.

iPhones, iPad, and iPod touch will be configured by the iPhone Configuration Utility

• Configure profile and it can be sent to or downloaded by mobile devices

Back to Demo

Setting up a new client

• User with their username and password can easily connect to the network.
• The server will automatically configure all the applications.

Back to the Presentation

Mail Server

• AMTP, IMAP and POP
• SSL encryption
• Adaptive Junk mail filtering
• Virus detection & quarantine
• Mailing lists

New Engine for Mail Server

• Push email support
• Server level email rules
• Vacation Notice support

iCal Server

• Schedule group meetings
• Directory integration
• Free / busy lookup

CalDAV Support (becoming the industry standard)

You can invite people who are not part of the Calendaring System whether or not they are on a Mac.

Address Book Server

• Personal contacts
• Global address books
• Works with existing apps
• CardDav (standard vcard execution)

iChat Server

• Secure instant messaging
• Directory integration
• Jabber XMPP protocol

Back to Demo

Address Book Server

• Address completion
• Directory lookups
• Address book services

iCal Server

• full access from any Mac
• Meetings
• Events
• to-dos
• propose a meeting
• check meeting room availability with single drop down
• You can bring up a invitees availability panel<
• Delegation capabilities in the iCal management
• Can be accessed from the web

Break “Where’s the COFFEE”