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Mac OS X Server 10.3 “Panther” 
- Things to think about before upgrading to Panther Server
28 October 2003 - Bring on the Big Cat! (Mac OS X Server 10.3 Review)
5 November 2003 - Migrating from UW IMAP to CYRUS
6 November 2003 - Using Procmail to filter mail with Cyrus and Postfix
13 November 2003 - Supporting multiple domains with Postfix
13 November 2003 - Troubleshooting Open Directory with Panther Server
16 November 2003 - Tips for Upgrading from Mac OS X Server 10.2.8 to 10.3.3
16 March 2004 - Plugging into Active Directory
2 May 2004 - Headless Xserve G5 installation instructions
2 May 2004 - Installing Postfix 2.1.1 with PCRE support on Mac OS X Server 10.3
9 May 2004
Mac OS X Server 10.2 “Jaguar”
- What’s New in Mac OS X Server 10.2
20August 2002 - Mac OS X Server 10.2 “Jaguar”: Apple Docs
24 August 2002
Commentary
- Sharepoints: 27 February 2002, State of the Mail Server
27 February 2002 - Sharepoints: 17 July 2002, We’re Not Alone Any More
17 July 2002 - Sharepoints: 24 September 2002, Apple’s Mail Service Ages Well in Jaguar
24 September 2002 - The Journaling File System in Mac OS X
19 November 2002 - Sharepoints: ACTC Exam : A Certifiably Better Exam
22 January 2003 - Sharepoints: The State of the Mac in Germany
25 January 2003
E-Mail
- Combatting Spam in Mac OS X Server Part 1: Apple Mail Service
- Combatting Spam in Mac OS X Server Part II: AFP548.com’s Anti-Spam Configuration
- Combatting Spam in Mac OS X Server Part III: New Anti-Relay Controls in Apple Mail Server
- Installing Postfix to Work with Apple Mail Service on Mac OS X Server
- Installation and use of Exim as an SMTP agent for Mac OS X Server 10.1.2
Note: This article has been superseded by the following three articles on Exim 4.10. - Exim 4.10 as an SMTP agent for Mac OS X Server, Part 1: Installing Exim
7 June 2002 (updated 22 August 2002) - Exim 4.10 as an SMTP agent for Mac OS X Server, Part 2: Installing SpamAssassin 24 June 2002 (updated 22 August 2002)
- Exim 4.10 as an SMTP agent for Mac OS X Server, Part 3: Exim 4.10 with integrated spam and virus controls
17 February 2003 - Exim 4.10 as an SMTP agent for Mac OS X Server 10.2
21 October 2002 - Using Exim for virtual mail hosts
6 October 2002 - Installing Postfix and UW IMAP on Mac OS X Server (updated 25 January 2003)
Note: This article has been superseded by the new article on Postfix 2. - Installing Python and Mailman on Mac OS X Server (updated 7 March 2002)
- Safely permit remote relaying with Retrieve-before-SMTP in Postfix
- Mac OS X Server 10.2’s Apple Mail Server and UNIX’ /var/mail
6 November 2002 - Vacation Processing for Exim
17 December 2002 - Using your Mac OS X Server Open Directory Database to share e-mail addresses
10 September 2002 (updated 22 January 2002) - Using your Mac OS X Server Open Directory Database to share e-mail addresses
22 January 2003 - Mailman 2.1: Powerful E-mail List Management Software (New Installations)
29 January 2003 (updated 21 March 2003) - Mailman 2.1: Powerful E-mail List Management Software (Upgrading in Place)
5 March 2003 (updated 21 March 2003) - Installing and Configuring Postfix 2.x and UW IMAP/POP3 on Mac OS X Server
13 April 2003 - Backing up the Apple Mail Server (AMS)
5 May 2003 - Spam and Virus Controls with Postfix
31 August 2003 (updated 17 October 2003) - Installing Postfix 2.1.1 with PCRE support on Mac OS X Server 10.3
9 May 2004
Web
- Installing and creating your own SSL certificate on OSX Server
(updated 6 May 2003) - Installing a Webmail Agent on Your Machine
(updated 24 September 2002) - Installing Analog on Mac OS X Server
(updated 24 September 2002) - Installing Ikonboard 3.0.2
(updated 8 April 2002) - Getting meaningful information from Apache Log Files
(updated 25 April 2002) - Modifying ServerAdmin’s Default Apache Log Format
9 May 2002 - Adding spell-checking to SquirrelMail
20 June 2002 (updated 1 November 2002) - Installing phpBB 2.0.1 on Mac OS X Server
7 August 2002 (updated 24 September 2002) - Producing Better Web Statistics with Report Magic
25 September 2002 (updated 12 January 2003) - Administer MySQL over the Web with phpMyAdmin
30 September 2002 - So you want to run an iCal server?
9 October 2002 - Installing more.groupware under Mac OS X Server 10.2
29 October 2002 - Host Web-based Surveys Using phpESP
30 October 2002 - The Gallery Photo Database Application
6 December 2002 - Editable shared iCal server
31 January 2003 (updated 4 February 2003) - Upgrading and Beefing Up PHP on Mac OS X Server
17 April 2003 (updated 5 May 2003)
System Administration
- Creating a Bootable Backup Copy of Your System Drive
(updated 18 June 2003) - Getting DNS Up and Running on Mac OS X Server
- Getting File Maker Server 5.5 to Launch on Startup
(updated 7 August 2002) - Using Mac OS X Server as a Router Providing NAT
(updated 28 June 2002) - Mac OS X Server 10.2 as a NAT router
16 October 2002 - Mac OS X Server Samba Primary Domain Controller Configuration
(updated 31 May 2002) - MySQL Tutorial (Part 1)
- Customizing the New User’s Account Defaults
31 May 2002 - Multihoming a Network Interface on Mac OS X Server
1 June 2002 (updated 10 November 2002) - NetInfo Recovery Techniques
4 June 2002 - Five Cool Things to do with CUPS
5 September 2002 - Stupid Simple Startup Items
25 September 2002 - Enabling the TFTP server in Mac OS X Server 10.2
2 October 2002 - Some sneakiness with xinetd
8 October 2002 - Setting up the PPTP Server on Mac OS X Server 10.2
15 October 2002 (updated 5 June 2003) - Importing Users into Mac OS X Server 10.2
6 November 2002 - Keeping your CUPS from running over
7 November 2002 - Open Directory—What it Means to You
12 November 2002 - Setting up Network Home Folders on Mac OS X Server 10.2
12 November 2002 - The Journaling File System in Mac OS X
19 November 2002 - Mac OS X Server “Boot up” Controls
19 November 2002 - ProFTPd, for the pro?
12 December 2002 - Mac OS X Server/Client as Postscript RIP
29 January 2003 - Making Mac OS X Server 10.2 into a LDAP-based PDC
17 February 2003 - Bring on the Clones: Cloning your NetInfo Database
6 March 2003 - Finally, a Reason to Use Your Modem
13 April 2003 - MultiCast Tunnel Creation, or Rendezvous across the Internet
5 June 2003 - Relocating Home Directories
14 July 2003 (updated 18 July 2003) - LDAP over SSL in Mac OS X Server 10.2
21 July 2003 - Managing PowerBook Users with Mac OS X 10.2
16 November 2003 - Converting a local user account to a mobile account
18 January 2004 - Plugging into Active Directory
2 May 2004 - Headless Xserve G5 installation instructions
2 May 2004
UNIX
- Fun with Dig
(updated 10 November 2002) - Fun With CPAN (Part 1)
- Fun With CPAN (Part 2)
- Fun With CPAN (Part 3)
- Quickie Terminal Sessions
(updated 14 April 2003) - CLI Commands of Interest to Mac OS X Server Admins
- UNIX Tool Chest
25 September 2002 (updated 30 September 2002) - The Creation of the UNIX* Operating System (Bell Labs)
- Introducing the Shell
23 April 2002 - Basic Shell Operations, Part 1
23 April 2002 - Basic Shell Operations, Part 2
23 April 2002 - Basic Shell Operations, Part 3
23 April 2002 - Your Shell’s Environment
3 May 2002 - Finding files and directories in Mac OS X Server
20 June 2002 - Who’s on, and what are they doing?
31 July 2002 - Linking command with pipes
13 August 2002 - Using STDIN and STDOUT
13 August 2002
Workbench
- GNU Zebra
24 April 2002 - Squid Proxy Cache Server
24 April 2002 - OpenLDAP
24 April 2002
“Speaking in Tongues”
- SMTP: Simple Mail Transport Protocol
12 July 2002 - POP3: Post Office Protocol, Version 3
15 July 2002 (updated 16 July 2002) - FTP: File Transfer Protocol
12 July 2002 - IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol
31 July 2002 - HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Security
- Ten Mac OS X Security Suggestions
(updated 16 September 2002) - SSH Tips
(updated 21 June 2002) - Compiling and Installing nmap on Mac OS X Server
(updated 7 April 2004) - Securing Apple Mail Server and Much More
(Updated 10 October 2002) (Not for 10.2+) - Forensic Analysis of a Compromised Mac OS X (Client) Machine
7 May 2002 - Installing OpenSSH 3.4p1
25 June 2002 (updated 16 September 2002) - Flying Racoons: IPSec, Mac OS X Server 10.2, and you (Part 1)
22 August 2002 - Flying Racoons: Host to host, coast to coast (Part 2)
9 September 2002 - Flying Racoons: Clients? We don’t need no stinking clients (Part 3)
9 October 2002 (updated 31 October 2002) - Flying Racoons: Networks that Work (Part 4)
6 January 2003 - Flying Racoons: Networks that don’t work (Part 5)
12 January 2003 - Flying Racoons: WEP is for Wusses (Part 6)
22 February 2003 - Using Nagios to monitor your network, Part 1: Installation
11 September 2002 - Using Nagios to monitor your network, Part 2: Configuration
8 October 2002 - SSH Tunnels for Fun and Profit
21 July 2003 - The Great Big Mac OS X Panther Server and SSL article
12 November 2003 - An introduction to Kerberos (Part One in a Series)
18 January 2004 - Kerberos Mac OS X Implementation (Part Two in a Series)
18 January 2004
Reviews
- A Cost Comparison of Pre-Built Mac OS X Servers
- Recommended Mac OS X Books
- Little Dutch Moose
(Updated 16 September 2002) - Cheap Mac OS X Server RAID
- AWStats Web Log File Analyzer
- phpBB: Fast, Configurable and Easy to Use Web Bulletin Board Software
(updated 24 September 2002) - Norton SystemWorks 2.0: Too Little for Too Much
(Updated 16 September 2002) - Dantz Retrospect: Critical System Utility, But Overpriced
3 May 2002 - Comparative Review of Secure GUI FTP Clients
19 September 2002
Active Directory
- Active Directory Integration in Three Hours or Less
8 May 2003 - Kerberos, Active Directory, and Mac OS X Server
9 August 2003 - MacMan and Lisa: The Case of the Unsecured Protocol
31 August 2003 - Active Directory Integration for the Risk-Averse
20 September 2003