Mountain Lion has an application called Contacts. Mountain Lion Server has a service called Contacts. While the names might imply differently, surprisingly the two are designed to work with one another. The Contacts service was called Address Book in Lion and below and is based on CardDAV, a protocol for storing contact information on the web, retrievable and digestible by client computers. The Contacts service is also a conduit with which to read information from LDAP and display that information in the Contacts client, which is in a way similar to how the Global Address List (GAL) works in Microsoft Exchange. I know I’ve said this about other services in…
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MacTech InDepth In New York
I have been added as a speaker at MacTech InDepth in New York. If you haven’t signed up yet, and you work with Mac OS X Server then you should really check out the sessions that have been planned: The Elephant in the Room: The New Lion OS X is out, now what? There are a lot of differences to contend with between Lion and Snow Leopard. Now with the new Mountain Lion update, what changes can we expect to see? We discuss the differences in advanced services, GUI simplicity, and Apache management GUI’s. We help you understand the updates in the new OS and make the transition easier. We…
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Big Changes in Lion Server
OK, by now I’m sure everyone has heard that OS X Server is a download off the App Store. For a whoppin’ $50 you get the OS that was once called “Open Source Made Easy” until someone at Apple realized that GPLv3 might mean that Open Source doesn’t always mean “free as in beer”. Wait, did I say that out loud? Point is, there are bigger changes here than just moving the server to the App Store. There are also some pretty big changes to the GUI of OS X Server. The first and most obvious is the LoginWindow, which is different in OS X in general. It obviously looks…
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BRU Primer -> Advanced
In BRU 2, you have 3 tools to use. These include: BRU Server Agent Config (UB) – A tool used to install the agent, which needs to be located on each machine that will be backed up (including the server if it has any data to back up) BRU Server Config (UB) – Used to configure the server daemon, backup server configurations and set passwords to communicate with the server. Also used to set licensing information and perform scans for new tape drives and libraries. BRU Server Console (UB) – Used to configure backup jobs, schedules, etc. To get started, open the BRU Server Config application from the components that…
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Moving Day
I am deep in the throes of moving into my new house. Which makes me think about moving racks. One should always, always, always make sure to take all of their servers out of the rack when you move it. Don’t move full racks (or trust movers with full racks)… I must admit I usually leave the UPS in there, but hopefully it’s sitting on the bottom and actually increases the structural integrity of the rack (or so I say to myself while staring down the barrel of having to pull one out of a rack)… I don’t have an issue leaving fan assemblies or PDUs either. But not the…