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The announcement sounded to me like they're refocusing Server.app for Profile Manager / MDM than one-application-do-it-all approach like they did previously. I
by sirn 8y ago
The announcement sounded to me like they're refocusing Server.app for Profile Manager / MDM than one-application-do-it-all approach like they did previously. I think this benefit even more for enterprise users, because they're likely not going to use the bundled Apache/Dovecot/etc. that came with Server.app, but rather using existing infrastructure they already had in place anyway.
Edit: one thing to note: macOS Server is not an entire OS, but rather a Server.app application running on top of existing macOS installation that you can download from Mac App Store.
- wcfields 8y agoProfile manager / MDM on MacOS Server is a goddamn nightmare. It's amazing when it works, but when it breaks you're SOL. Case in point is I inherited a semi-broken system when I started my job 3 years ago. ~40 enrolled laptops but couldn't add any more. Peeking into the logs the SQL server built into the .app bundle broke/corrupted. Many others in the Apple forums had the same issue but no resolution and the solution ended up being "flatten and reinstall". For a small business, sure Profile Manager might work, but scale beyond 10-20 users Jamf Pro is the way to go.
- EvanAnderson 8y agoOne of my friends spoke to an Apple engineer about problems he was having "scaling" Profile manager. The engineer basically laughed and said that they never actually intended for anybody to use Profile Manager.