Chapter 12
OS X Lion Server
The day that OS X Lion was announced, Apple surprised the Mac community with the announcement of OS X Lion Server. Previously, the server version of OS X was a completely separate operating system that provided many collaborative services while still maintaining the ease of use of the Mac OS. That power came with a price tag: Snow Leopard Server cost $499 for an unlimited user license.
Apple has changed all that with OS X Lion Server. At just $49.99 for an unlimited user license, Server is now an application that is purchased from the Mac App Store and installed on a Mac to give it the ability to act as a workgroup or home server. In this chapter, I’ll provide background on what a server is and what it can do, how ...
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