Apple's SMBX doesn't really work well with anything but a Mac, and Profile Manager is just about the least reliable MDM out there.Īnd who is really using Open Directory these days? If you want Netboot, you can do it from Linux. This, of course, also means I have one less reason to keep using Macs as servers, but I digress.Īpple stopped offering a server certification years ago, but it didn't stop Apple Stores from recommending a Mac Mini with a single drive to customers who wanted a file server. I guess with this change, there's no reason to bother installing it ever again, since I don't manage a network of users. And even then, I don't let the app configure *anything*, using a separate launchd plist with a different identifier and a separate config file so that none of Apple's code has any effect on the actual operation of the server. The only reason I even install Server.app at all is so that the software updates for Apache and BIND happen without me having to pay attention to the CERT mailing lists. You're pretty much guaranteed to end up with something nonfunctional. And heaven help you if you try to import any existing Apache config. The Apache functionality has been a constant struggle even to get it to do basic things like update certs programmatically (they bizarrely store them in the keychain, then require some weird custom commands to force the server to grab the new credentials, and they're basically undocumented as far as I can tell). Apparently, they kept the user and device management - the part that for 99% of Server.app users is the least useful, but admittedly also the only part that's at all Mac-specific. Staring at this list, I'm struggling to think of anything that wasn't removed. It's a server app, with all the server functionality removed.
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