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

[John Blyth]

On 01/02/2008, at 2:45 PM, Peter Varitimidis wrote:

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


If it was the middle of the year, I'd say head off to X-world IV (as  
it will be)
as you will find a lot of the tech sessions up at UTS very worthwhile.

There's also developer documentation from apple, and many apple docs.  
Google's
pretty handy too for specific issues, and of course all the folks on  
Unimactech too :-)

A suggestion: get yourself a second copy of OS X Server and put it on a
test bed machine (doesn't have to be another x-serve, just another  
desktop)
and play to your heart's content; whilst leaving your main server  
doing only
the mission critical, base services that are really required.

As you build up experience with your test setups, then you
can then roll over working test bed configs to your main production  
server when you
know they are working reliably.

One tip from X-world:  a lot of the configs on OS X server are based  
on a correct
working reverse DNS lookup...  get the hostname, address, DNS &  
Reverse DNS setup
set & working properly first.

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