Apple released their new Lion Server Advanced Administration documentation. Has anyone yet analyzed what's new?I filed an enhancement request asking for them to flag the differences.
DNS can always bite you in the rear. in some case you run your own DNS server and you can correct the issues. In other cases, you're beholden to the powers that be to determine your fate. All is not lost, however, it is possible to run your own DNS proxy to override specific answers.
There were some bugs in the first version of the "Mac OS X Server Open Directory Administration For Version 10.5 Leopard" Check out the new version.
When the Apple Store came back up after this morning's Tuesday outage, I thought the new $49 price tag on the shuffle summed up the changes.But I was wrong. Xsan2 has been released. See apple.com/xsanAnd we have a big change up at apple.com/server/storageWe don't have new Xserve RAIDs, not exactly.
Hidden deep in the bowels of the password server you will find some interesting, if seldom used, password policies that can be applied.
Get syslog to do your bidding and send logs to a remote machine. A quick run-through on how to make syslogd be promiscuous and take logs from strangers.
Have you ever noticed that Office 2004 installs fonts all over the place? You can use this handy script by Arek Dreyer to remove them after they have been installed. (Ed. note: You can remove the DoFonts file from the Office folder to keep it from installing them in the first place.
Get your server to deliver mail to local accounts without running an SMTP server. If you're used to previous version of OSX, you might be dismayed when 10.3 server doesn't act like you thought it should.
