Entered CNET Catalog: 10/23/2007
SKU: 0885909166534
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Manufacturer description
Small businesses and workgroups without an IT department can take advantage of Leopard Server's ability to automatically configure Leopard clients for use on the server, including file sharing, Mail, iCal, iChat, Address Book and VPN. Leopard Server also includes a new setup interface with a built-in Network Health Check, a new Server Preferences application and a server status Dashboard widget. With the wiki server, groups can easily create and edit collaborative web pages, called wikis, with a few clicks of a mouse. The wiki server also maintains a complete history to restore previous entries and merge or compare different versions. Podcast Producer is the easiest way for anyone to record content, automatically upload it to the server and convert it into a podcast. Using Xgrid, Podcast Producer can leverage Macs on the network to encode the video, and the podcast can then be delivered over the Internet to a blog, iTunes, or even to multimedia enabled mobile phones over high-speed wireless networks using QuickTime Streaming Server. Apple has made scheduling across different calendar programs simple with iCal Server to coordinate events, schedule meetings and track time more effectively. iCal Server uses the open CalDAV standard for integration with leading calendar programs, including iCal 3 in Leopard, Mozilla's Sunbird and OSAF's Chandler. In addition, Apple's Directory makes it easy to search for people in an organization and view their contact information, picture, colleagues, groups and even see a location map. Spotlight Server takes Spotlight's lightning-fast desktop search capability to the network server level. Designed for workgroups with shared documents, projects and files, Spotlight Server delivers search results of content stored on mounted network volumes. Content indexing is done automatically and transparently on the server so searches are always fast and up-to-date. Leopard Server's core services, including Apache 2, MySQL 5, Postfix, Cyrus, Podcast Producer and QuickTime Streaming Server are 64-bit, allowing users to take full advantage of their 64-bit hardware's performance and processing power and work with larger data sets. Since Leopard Server is fully 32-bit compatible, users can run 32-bit and 64-bit applications natively side-by-side. Leopard Server is also optimized to take full advantage of Intel's latest multi-core processors.User opinions
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User Rating: 
3/10
10.5 Server not ready for business
Pros: Has all these nice features, like Time Machine backup, AXIS server, iChat, Webblogs
Cons: AFP server doesn't work properly. It crashes constantly
Review:
I would stick with 10.4 server. Do not upgrade. Apple has released 10.5.2 and still no fix for the AFP issue. Apple should pull Leopard Server from the stores. There is a major bug when Open Directory Master is running on the same server as AFP. In 10.4 Server this was not an issue, yet in 10.5 Open Directory crashes and causes AFP to fail. We have had to resart AFP 3 to 4 times a day. DON"T BUY until AFP is fixed.
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