Server App

See all the user accounts on your server. Add, remove, and edit individual accounts easily.

Customize groups by enabling services, creating a group wiki, and adding or removing members.

A graph displays your server’s statistics for network traffic and CPU or memory usage.

Manage an AirPort base station or Time Capsule. Give users access to your Wi-Fi network.

The all-new Server app is your go-to place for practically everything related to your server, and it couldn’t be easier to set up. It includes a setup assistant that guides you step by step through the configuration process. Just a few clicks and you’re off and running. You get local and remote administration of features and services such as users and groups, file sharing, calendaring, email, contacts, chat, Time Machine, VPN, web, and wiki services. Want to know how your server is performing? The Server app can tell you. It displays graphs for monitoring access and server performance and gives you an overview of your hardware configuration and storage use. The Server app even lets you configure your server to send you email alerts if problems arise or if new software updates are available.

Profile Manager

Profile Manager lets administrators edit configuration profiles and gives users a portal to download profiles.

As an administrator, you can apply settings to specific users, groups of users, or devices.

With Profile Manager, you can easily edit settings that will be applied to all users in a group.

As a user, you can access the user portal on your iOS device to enroll it and download configuration profiles.

Profile Manager offers you simple yet powerful ways to set up and remotely manage computers running Lion and iOS devices such as iPad and iPhone. It also simplifies the creation of new configuration profiles and user accounts for mail, calendar, contacts, and chat; enforcement of restrictions; PIN and password policies; configuration of system settings; and more. Because it’s integrated with the Apple Push Notification service, Profile Manager can send out updated configurations over the air automatically. And it includes web-based administration, so you can manage your server from any modern web browser. Profile Manager even gives users access to a self-service web portal where they can download and install new configuration profiles, as well as clear passcodes and remotely lock or wipe devices that are lost or stolen.

File Sharing for iPad

Lion Server delivers wireless file sharing for iPad. When you enable WebDAV in Lion Server, users can access, copy, and share documents on the server from applications such as Keynote, Numbers, and Pages right from iPad.

Push Notifications

Lion Server is integrated into the Apple Push Notification service and can immediately notify users when they receive new mail messages, calendar invitations, changes to meetings, or updates to contact information.

Wiki Server 3

An editing toolbar lets users make quick and simple changes to a wiki page.

Use Quick Look to view the contents of a document on the wiki. And see associated metadata in a sidebar.

A calendar helps wiki group members stay informed about important dates and milestones.

Wiki Server 3 brings even more ease of use and control to your wikis. Use Wiki Server to host a website or wiki where your users can add content using the new Page Editor. Your wiki includes a document repository where users can upload, preview, and download files to their computers, making sharing and collaboration a breeze. With the new navigation bar, users can quickly switch to the server’s home page, My Page, Updates, Wikis, People, or Podcasts. People Browser lets you discover and share information outside a wiki. And automatic email notifications let users know when a page has been updated or when new comments have been added.

iCal Server 3

Now anyone can maintain schedules, appointments, and to-dos. iCal Server 3 lets you share a calendar with colleagues, family, and friends. So multiple people can access the same calendar to add events or update meeting details. You can also create a shared to-do or reminders list whose items can be prioritized and marked as completed by anyone with access to the shared calendar.

Mail Server 3

Mail Server 3 includes new features that enhance client services. With attachment searching, users can search the content of message attachments stored on the server. Searching works with all standard file formats, including iWork and Microsoft Office documents, PDF files, and QuickTime videos. Mail Server includes a new webmail service with a modern web design. It supports rich text and HTML messages, multiple languages, drag-and-drop message management, and threaded message listings.

Xsan

Now built into OS X Lion, the Xsan file system allows any Mac with appropriate connectivity to access an Xsan volume. Lion Server includes the Xsan Admin application for hosting and configuring Xsan volumes. And for improved performance and simplicity, you can create case-insensitive Xsan volumes that act like traditional HFS+ volumes and do not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase characters in filenames. Lion also supports industry-standard multipathing and failover, so Xsan can be used with a variety of Fibre Channel RAID storage arrays.