Apple Training Series Mac OS X Server Essentials, Second Edition

What You’ve Learned

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Directory services centralize system and network administration, and simplify a user’s

experience on the network.

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Open Directory is Apple’s extensible directory-services architecture.

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Directories store information in a specialized database that is optimized to handle a

great many requests for information and to find and retrieve information quickly.

Information may be stored in one directory or in several related directories.

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Open Directory uses the LDAP standard to provide a common language for directory

access, enabling you to maintain information in a single location on the network

rather than on each computer.

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The Open Directory service window of Server Admin lets you configure how a Mac

OS X server works with directory information.

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Workgroup Manager enables you to create both local and network user accounts.

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Directory Utility is the primary application for setting up a Mac OS X computer’s

connections with directories, and it exists on both Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.

References

The following documents provide more information about installing Mac OS X Server.

(All of these and more are available at http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/.)

Administration Guides

Open Directory Administration (http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/

Open_Directory_Admin_v10.5.pdf)

Upgrading and Migrating (http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/

Upgrading_and_Migrating_v10.5.pdf)

User Management (http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/

docs/User_Management_v10.5.mnl.pdf)

Open Directory (http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/L355770A_OpenD_TB.pdf)

Apple Knowledge Base Documents

You can check for new and updated Knowledge Base documents at www.apple.com/support.

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