Wiley Mac OS X Lion Server For Dummies 978-1-1180-2772-1 ユーザーズマニュアル

In This Chapter

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Answering the burning question: Why do I need a server?

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Exploring the services and tools in Lion Server

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Discovering what’s new in Lion Server

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Using the Server application and Server Admin with Lion Server

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Checking out Lion Server’s other administration tools

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t comes with a wide array of user services: file sharing, calendaring, con-
tact management, web, e-mail, instant messaging, media streaming, and 

more. It’s versatile enough to support Macs and PCs running Windows, Unix, 
and Linux. It even supports iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches.

It’s reliable, built on the solid foundation of Unix. At the same time, it has the 
ease of use of a Macintosh. Anyone can set it up, get it running, and manage 
it. Seriously technical professionals will find tools for the kind of configura-
tion customization that they’re accustomed to.

It is Mac OS X Server.

Lion Server (also known as Mac OS X Server 10.7) is the eighth major ver-
sion from Apple. Unlike Microsoft, which releases the Windows user version 
before the server version, Apple develops user and server versions at the 
same time. Lion Server looks like the copy of Lion running on users’ Macs. 
And Mac OS X Server runs on Macs, of course — any model that Apple makes 
today, as well as some older models. You can use Lion Server at home, in a 
small business, or in a department in a large organization.

In this chapter, I describe what you can do with Lion Server, providing an 
overview of all the services in one place. I also point out what’s new and 
improved and what’s changed in this version and introduce you to the soft-
ware tools you’ll use throughout the book.

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