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Part I: Getting Lion Server Up and Running
Workgroup Manager
Workgroup Manager is a more advanced tool for setting and managing user
accounts than the Server app. You can use Workgroup Manager to control
aspects of users’ computers. For example, you can require users to change pass-
words at regular intervals, create standardized preference settings for client
Macs, or allow only certain applications to run. You can also use Workgroup
Manager to configure certain security measures, such as blocking computers
from seeing external hard drives or from burning CDs and DVDs. And you can
create groups to manage settings for multiple sets of computers at once.
For more on Workgroup Manager, see Chapter 16.
The rest of the management team
There are some other tools that you’ll use less frequently than the Server
app, Server Admin, and Workgroup Manager. You may never need to use
them at all. In case you do, here’s a rundown of what they do.
Server Status Dashboard widget
If you’re a Mac user, you’re familiar with Dashboard widgets. On most Macs,
hit the F4 key and up pops a calculator, the weather, and other small applets.
They disappear when you click something else. Mac OS X Server has a Server
Status Dashboard widget, shown in Figure 1-8, that you can use on the server
or on any Mac on the network.
Figure 1-8:
The Server
Status
Dashboard
widget lets
you keep an
eye on sev-
eral server
parameters.
Lion displays Dashboard widgets differently from previous versions of Mac
OS X. Instead of overlaying the widgets on the screen, it switches to a differ-
ent space, hiding all the current open applications. You can, however, set
Dashboard to use the previous method of displaying widgets as an overlay.
To do this, open System Preferences from the Dock or from the Apple menu
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