OS X Lion Server - The server for everyone. Lion Server: Advanced Administration. OS X Lion requires Windows 7 for Boot Camp. News August 2, 2011 06:53 AM ET Computerworld - Even Apple is climbing on the Windows 7 bandwagon. Boot Camp, the Mac OS X utility that lets Mac owners run Windows in a separate partition, now requires Microsoft's newest operating system, the company said Monday in a support document. All new installations of Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, are equipped with Boot Camp 4, which runs only Windows 7. The older Vista and even-creakier Windows XP do not work in Boot Camp 4. According to Apple, Boot Camp 4 requires: "An authentic, single, full-installation, 32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate disc.
" But Mac users who are upgrading to Lion or migrating an older pre-Lion machine to new hardware powered by Lion can retain the older Boot Camp 3 and thus the ability to run Vista or Windows XP, Apple said. Apple did not explain why it's barred Windows Vista and XP from Boot Camp, but the move essentially shadows rival Microsoft's own position: Only Windows 7 matters. . Support - Lion Server. Back to the Mac: OS X 10.7 Lion Review. Apple hasn't exactly paid a ton of attention to Mac OS X since the iPhone came out. There, I said it.
This was obvious even in the lead-up to Leopard in 2007, when Apple delayed that OS's release from a spring timeframe to October so that they could get the iPhone out the door. Since then, we've gotten Snow Leopard (a "no new features" release that did a lot to optimize the platform at the expense of aging PowerPC Macs) and a long string of point updates that have done plenty to polish the OS but not much to advance it.
Using OS X today is fundamentally much the same as it was four years ago, though we're doing it on hardware that's four years faster. Lion, originally unveiled in October of 2010, is Apple's attempt to get "back to the Mac," which when translated from Apple into English means that the company wanted to port some ideas and some functionality from iOS into OS X, which parallels iOS's journey from a touch-driven iPod interface to an increasingly OS X-flavored standalone OS. In-Depth with Mac OS X Lion Server. Address Book Now that we’ve spent what seems like an eternity on the ins and outs of OS X Server’s directory and management capabilities, the rest of the review will go by pretty quickly - most of the services are pretty simple to setup and don’t have a lot of moving parts.
The Address Book service, for example, is basically a giant on/off switch with an option to include your directory users’ information in the address book search. To connect your client computer to the Address Book, go to Mail, Contacts & Calendars in System Preferences, click Other, and then elect to Add a Mac OS X Server account. Either select your server or type in its address, authenticate, and you’ll be asked which services you want to use (based on what services your server offers, and which ones you have permissions to use). If you’ve configured everything correctly, OS X will handle the rest. You now have a shared, centralized address book for every computer on your network that requests it. iCal iCal web interface. In-Depth with Mac OS X Lion Server. Mac OS X Server costs 5% of what it cost just three years ago.
Whatever your needs and whatever the software’s shortcomings, this is hard to ignore. Leopard Server cost $999 for an unlimited-client license, Snow Leopard Server cost $499, and Lion Server costs $50. For this reason alone, Lion Server will (and should) attract the attention of people who have never been in the market for server software before - home users, in particular - but it has to do so without alienating the business and education customers who currently rely on the software.
These are Lion Server’s challenges: is there a real point in having it at home? And as a comparatively-dirt-cheap App Store download, is it lacking in features and power compared to previous versions? I want to clarify a couple of things before I dive into the review proper: First, just like previous versions, Lion Server is very much just OS X with server functionality laid over top of it.
Got all that? About Server Admin Tools 10.7.3. Server Admin Tools 10.7.3 contain advanced administration tools for Lion Server. You can install them on the server or on another Mac and use it for remote administration. The Server Admin Tools 10.7.3 are available as an automatic Software Update for Macs running OS X v10.7.3 with version 10.7 or later of the Server Admin Tools already installed, and as a manual download from Apple Support Downloads.
Important: If you have moved any of the Server Admin Tools out of their original locations (inside /Applications/Server/), the update may continue to appear in Software Update even after you have installed it. Return the Server Admin Tools to their original location before using Software Update, or remove any duplicate copies of the Server Admin Tools. What's included? The Server Admin Tools 10.7.3 update includes the following improvements: Server Admin Improves Gateway Setup Assistant. System Image Utility Reliably saves volume name in a NetRestore workflow. Workgroup Manager One Moment Please. Mac OS X Lion Server - Resources - Documentation. About the Lion Server v10.7.3 Update.