![]() Apple included its own Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) called Open Directory (OD) which was built to manage users and groups similar to Microsoft’s (more popular) Active Directory (AD). When it first debuted, OS X Server provided a number of useful features for managing your Mac clients. Today, there are only a handful of services that still remain exclusive to macOS Server. Over the years, the features of the Server application have been scaled back or migrated into the base feature set of macOS. Mac OS X is the client operating system that was eventually released in the early 2000s, and along with it, Apple began selling an OS X Server as an application that ran on top of the client OS to provide it with server-class capabilities. The original Mac OS Server was code-named “Rhapsody,” and it was initially designed to be the first release of the next-generation Mac operating system that began development after Apple’s purchase of NeXT in 1996. In this chapter, we are going to explore the server capabilities that Apple has built into the macOS client operating system, the services that are added when installing the macOS Server application, how to determine if you need a dedicated Mac server, and how to configure and manage the server if you do. ![]() The concept of a Mac server has changed quite extensively since the very first version of the software hit the scenes in the late 1990s.
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