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Chapter 1: Lion Server: An Overview
those for mail, calendar, contacts, and other things. It can also contain rules for
passwords, as well as restrictions on what a user is allowed to do on the net-
work. You can distribute profiles to devices via e-mail or have users download
them from a self-service web page. You can also have Lion’s Push Notification
service automatically deliver updates to configuration profiles on devices.
Podcast Producer
Podcast Producer is actually a set of software that automates the capture,
creation, and distribution of video and audio. You and your users can record
a lecture, training video, or student project, and Podcast Producer automati-
cally adds, encodes, renders, and compresses titles and other elements based
on your criteria. Podcast Producer automatically publishes your recording on
a website or via iTunes. Windows users can also get into the action. You can
read more about Podcast Producer in Chapter 15.
Software update server
You can restrict what software updates get installed on client Macs, as well
as when they get installed so that you can test updates first. The client Macs
get the updates from the server instead of downloading them individually.
NetInstall
NetInstall lets you install Mac OS X upgrades on users’ Macs, requiring that
their updates come from Mac OS X Server and not directly from the Internet.
Because Mac OS X updates can sometimes cause incompatibilities with older
software, you can test an upgrade before rolling it out on all the client Macs
at the same time. NetInstall also lets you restore, from the server, a custom-
ized Mac OS X configuration to Macs that need it.
NetBoot
NetBoot is great for a group of Macs that are available to multiple users,
such as in a school computer lab or a classroom. This service enables Mac
clients to boot up from the server instead of from their own hard drives.
The NetBoot server can use a single disk image to boot multiple Macs. This
process prevents the boot system from being altered or tampered with
and makes sure that every system boots in exactly the same configuration.
NetBoot also lets you update the system software of all the Macs at one time,
simply by updating the disk image on the server.
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