Apple hasn’t even come close to a Web UI yet-if that is, in fact, the end goal for this. However, the tools are very much a work in progress. Does it really matter if those controls are presented via Cocoa or HTML?)
(The UI mostly involves picking from a list, entering text, and selecting radio buttons, and checkboxes.
That’s not a bad idea managing a server is something that, on the GUI level, can be handled quite well via a Web UI. While you use Server.app to set up Profile Manager, most of the actual managing work is done via a Web interface. The answer I think lies in Profile Manager, Apple’s new tool for managing Macs and iOS devices (more on that later). It’s certainly not some return-to-Unix idea where each application has a specific focus. Why have four applications doing the work of two? It’s a little like being nibbled to death by baby ducks. Server Admin handles DHCP, DNS, NetBoot, Software Update, and others. For example, Server.app handles Address Book, File Sharing, iCal, iChat, Mail, and other service settings. I’m sure that this new server-management program will one day completely take over all the functions of the familiar Server Admin application, but right now it doesn’t, which results in a somewhat tedious bit of hopping back and forth between applications to get things done.
There’s a new kid in town for managing Lion Server, and it’s called Server.app. Welcome Server.app good-bye Server Admin-sort of But right now, using Lion Server is a tad more maddening than it should be. Mac App Store link) succeeds, but it’s hampered by UI annoyances and inconsistencies that will probably be fixed in future updates. (Readers with longish memories may remember that OS X Server had a pre-10.0 version, which was called version 1.0.) In many ways, Mac OS X Lion Server (version 10.7
The ninth major release of Apple’s server operating system is as big a change as the change from Mac OS X Server 1.0 to Mac OS X Server 10.0.
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