A guided tour of Apple’s Leopard Server OS

Computer World’s Yuval Kossovsky details some of the features in the upcoming server version of OS X 10.5. Of interest is the way Apple seems intent on simplifying things even further by providing an easier way to manage the system.

“Server Prefs are modelled after the system preferences control system and have a limited set of choices and options for controlling the server, providing only the truly necessary controls for basic administration. There is a simple way to manage user and group memberships and a new directory management application”

This is pretty cool because managing OS X server, while considerably easier than a linux or windows based server is still not for the faint hearted.

Another interesting addition will be the Spotlight Server service. Im hoping this will also have an effect on XSAN because at the moment searching for files on xsan is a complete pain. There’s lots more good stuff in the article. Well worth a read if you’re anyway interested in servers.

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