Monthly Archives: 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 thing:
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 make it work in your environment.
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 mail users.