Server

We’ve been using a 10.7 Server in the office since Lion was released, but it is only now that I’m about to install an all Lion office, so will get the chance to use Profile Manager in a real install. Over the last few months, I’ve noticed a couple of things: Don’t bother using a self signed SSL certificate. Preferences will fail to push seemingly at random without a proper certificate. For what they cost, get over to Godaddy and buy yourself a cheap certificate and save yourself hours of head scratching. ...

Starting with Lion Server, a fair bit of data is now stored in Postgres databases. If you use Time Machine, you’ll get this backed up properly for you. If you use a proper backup solution (I prefer CrashPlan), you won’t get automated dumps. This script rectifies this, by dumping all of your Postgres data, and keeping 7 days worth. You can grab the code, along with a pre-built pkg installer from GitHub. ...

The problem Lion Server takes over every ethernet interface when you enable any web services (Web, Wiki, Profile Manager, basically anything!). This leaves us with two options: putting Kerio on a non-standard port and getting the users to type that in every time, or completely disabling apache and not using any of the good stuff that came with Lion Server. Or, we could work out a way to redirect users to the right port number when they hit mail.example.com ...