Archive | September, 2011
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Using OS X Lion Server as a Home Server (Part 8 – Profile Manager and Apple Macs)

In this part of the series, we’re going to walk through Apple’s Profile Manager – a powerful configuration tool that allows remote configuration of a vast array of client features and settings. We’ll walk through how to register your Apple computers with Profile Manager and how those machines (and indeed, the user accounts running on them) can be configured to provide a personalised, tailored experience for your users. Need to rock some parental controls for the kids? On all of the Macs in the house? At once? Profile Manager is your friend.

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Using OS X Lion Server as a Home Server (Part 7 – Users and Groups Configuration)

It’s time to get our users set up on the server! OS X Lion Server allows configuration of both local and network accounts – local accounts are restricted to the server, whilst network accounts can be used on all Mac clients connected to the server as well as the server itself. As you’d expect, we’ll have centralised control of our family’s user accounts from the server itself, making administration a lot easier. Let’s take a look at what’s involved.

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Using Apple OS X Lion Server as a Home Server (Part 6 – Storage and Network Configuration)

If you’ve been following our series of articles on using Apple’s all-new OS X Lion Server as a home server over the last couple of weeks, you’ll have been waiting eagerly for this part – yes, having looked closely at our hardware selection, features and the Lion Server App itself, it’s time to get the server configured.

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Microsoft’s Colorado Server Choice Increases With the Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX100 S3 Standard Edition

They’ve been a while coming, but it looks as if OEMs are starting to wheel out their Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials lines, which will come as a relief to Redmond I’m sure. We’ve previously highlighted offerings from Acer and HP (this week) and today it’s the turn of Fujitsu to show off what’s ahead.

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D-Link Woos Small Business With New ShareCenter Pro Storage Solution

D-Link have been pretty quiet this year so far, and they may well have been spending their time hatching a plan to crack the small business storage market. This week, the company announced the new ShareCenter Pro, a range of business class storage solutions offering higher-end features including iSCSI support, dual Gigabit Ethernet and more.

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