[UniMacTech] any good X-serve config & management books?

[Peter Varitimidis]

On 01/02/2008, at 1:59 PM, Mark Secker wrote:

> After a long drought  of being "mac free" (except for those  
> academics who did the "you can have my mac when you take it out of  
> my cold dead hands" thing) management has finally relented and we've  
> just purchased an x-serve.
>
> We've put the new (base model) x-serve through the budget primarily  
> as a backup LDAP server (as mid/late last year  a sun update bricked  
> both our Sun based LDAP servers losing network authentication  
> services for several days)
>
> How ever as the mac user support officer I want to "leverage" the  
> server for all it's worth, - update server,  home drive, roaming  
> profiles for our mac users,  but also  promoting stuff to users such  
> as  iChat video conferencing, pod casting, blogs  etc as it seems  
> our hand full of mac users are the main people pushing for these  
> sorts of tools.
>
>
> So basically I'm  looking for recommendations on good technical  
> books on setting up and maintaining Apple OSX  server. Need it to  
> cover the basics (setup, file sharing etc) but also covering  
> Apple's  stuff like  iCal, iChat, Quicktime streaming server et. al.
>
> My hands on experience with Apple servers finished at a beige G3  
> running AppleshareIP which died of old age some years back. I'm no  
> unix expert but also  not a total newbie and I do have our Unix  
> admin guy at my beck and call for primary setup.
>
>
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> ~
> Mark Secker  IT Labs Manager & Computer Support Officer
> School of Business IT Services.
> ph# 61-8-6488 1855  <mailto:mark at biz.uwa.edu.au>
> University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
> ~



Mark,

Suggest you start by reading the server documentation

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/

and spending time at http://www.afp548.com/

Peter