Mac OS X Server

About Security Update 2011-005

This document describes the security content of Security Update 2011-005, which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads.

Lion Server: Wiki calendar service may be unavailable after upgrade or migration

After upgrading or migrating data to Lion Server, the Lion Server Wiki calendar service may be unavailable when users try to reach the web calendar service. Users may experience the following symptoms: An alert that states "Too many redirects occured while … Continue reading

Lion Server: Installing Lion Server on a blank volume

Learn how to install Lion Server on a blank hard drive or partition.

Mac OS X v10.6, OS X Lion: Unable to restrict logins to network groups

When editing the list of network users who are allowed to log in at the login window, a network group may not be added to the list.

Mac OS X: Mounting shared folders using an smb:// URL or the mount_smbfs command

You can use a URL in the form smb://myserver.mydomain.com/Sharepoint/Folder or the mount_smbfs command in Terminal to mount a shared volume on an SMB server.

OS X Lion: Advanced Apache configuration

Server.app’s Web Service panels expose a small subset of Apache’s configurable directives. Advanced administrators may need to make Web Service configuration changes beyond that subset.

About the Lion Server v10.7.1 Update

This software updates Lion Server v10.7 to v10.7.1. It is recommended for all Lion Server users.

OS X Lion: About search domains and name lookups

In Mac OS X, you can use search domains (configured in the Network pane of System Preferences) to help you auto-complete long host names in Safari and other applications. In OS X Lion, name lookups using search domains are completed … Continue reading

Boot Camp is not included with Mac OS X Server

Boot Camp is not included with Macs that ship with Mac OS X Server pre-installed. This includes all Xserves as well as Mac mini and Mac Pro configurations that include Mac OS X Server.

Lion Server: Mac OS X clients unable to bind to Active Directory read-only domain controllers

Mac OS X clients may be unable to bind to Active Directory read-only domain controllers; binding may not work when attempting to create the computer account.