If you ever feel the need to chat with your fellow OS X Server enthusiasts in real time, then drop on by the AFP548 "official" IRC channel. The channel name is #afp548 and You'll find it on the FreeNode network (irc.freenode.net).
In the move from the Apple Partition Map (APM), to the new GUID partition table (GPT) there's a lot of questions around why, how and what does it mean to me.
Ed. Note: We've talked about redirecting parts of your home folder a number of times when dealing with AFP, but I don't think we've ever actually laid out how to do it. This collection of scripts makes it easy. If you manage an environment with lots of network home directory usage, then you need to check out Network Home Redirector.
BixData: Powerful easy to use monitoring BixData is a handy new tool for SysAdmins. It can monitor everything that your network and systems depend on. After a simple installation you can monitor network devices, HTTP, Web Services, Mail Servers, File Systems and Applications.
This handy little application has been updated to version 1.0.1. The new version improves support for 10.3.5-10.3.9 systems.
PaperCut Software has just finished their first version of PaperCut NG for OS X Server. The Mac version has all the functionally of the Windows edition including, print quota, print monitoring, shared accounts, release station and rule based filtering of print jobs.
Worth pointing out, since it contradicts what some people have said in the past. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303697
Update: The dates are now 6/27-29 in Austin. Apple has a new training class coming out that deals with Advanced Server Administration. I'm proud to have done some work during the development of the class, and happy to say that it includes material from my Panther book that has been updated for Tiger (specifically, Part I).
The first Apple announcement at NAB 2006 is the release of Xsan 1.3 - the biggest improvement being the ability to use LUNs greater than 2TB, removing the need to slice your 7TB RAIDs.
Yes, it's here! With new features including remote Spotlight searches, remote drag and drop, shared clipboards, curtain mode, Automator actions, a task server and smart computer lists there's a veritable feast of stuff to get excited about.
