Enterprise Organizations

In large organizations, Mac OS X Server helps you support the special needs of departments and workgroups, but centralize corporate-level services.

Web and

QuickTime

streaming

service

Mac OS X

Server

Mac OS X

Server

The Internet

Active Directory

Mac OS X Server

Back-office servers

Mail

service

Mac OS X Server

Windows PDC for Windows home directories

Mac OS X

Servers

Workgroup servers

Open Directory

JBoss

Mac OS X

Server

VPN, DNS, and

DHCP services

Mac OS X Server

Open Directory LDAP

directory replicas

Local print, web, and file services

AFP home directories

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Open Directory lets you manage directory data centrally, but distribute it geographically using replication.

Other enterprise-level services might include Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Virtual Private Network (VPN), mail, web, streaming, and JBoss.

JBoss is an application server that implements the Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technologies; JBoss runs on Java 1.4.1. The Mac OS X Server implementation includes easy-to-use administration tools to help you configure and monitor the application servers. Because of its clustering capabilities, JBoss might be run on several Xserves.

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Apple 10.3 manual Enterprise Organizations, Workgroup servers