ANDRÉ AULICH

Digital Asset Management & Workflow Automation

Archive: April, 2008


How to update a 10.4/Xsan 1.4.2 MDC to 10.5/Xsan 2 and replace the RAID hardware at the same time

More and more shops update their Xsan environments to Leopard server and client and Xsan 2.

While this is quite easy, I’ve got some customers who want to replace their existing Apple Xserve RAIDs with 4Gb, redundant-controllers PROMISE RAIDs at the same time.

I choose the following way to do the whole

Add firstname.lastname style aliases to Mac OS X Server 10.4 users using a simple script

Today is my 10.4 revival day. Though I don’t work much with 10.4 systems anymore, today I finally managed to write some articles on Mac OS X Server’s mail functionality, which I tested with 10.4 last summer.

If you work with 10.5 server, you might want to adapt the following to

Set up Mail forwardings in 10.4 Open Directory using a simple script

Last year I helped setting up an email environment with two mail servers.

One of them is a Kerio mail server which serves mails for the customer’s staff.

The second mail server makes use of Mac OS X Server 10.4′s internal mail technologies and serves mails for the majority of the customer’s

Using imapsync to move mails from your old to your new server

If you read my book Mac OS X Server 10.5 als Groupware-Server and built up your own personal Mac OS X mail server, you might want to move existing email data to your new server.

If your server serves mails for a couple of users only, you can do this

My current book “Mac OS X 10.5 Server als Groupware-Server” currently leads the list of UNIX and Mac books

My new book “Mac OS X 10.5 Server als Groupware-Server” is currently on rank 526 at Amazon Germany and leads the list of Mac OS and UNIX books:

A big thanks to everyone, this is awesome.