Name: macOS Server
Version: 5.6.1
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Developer: Apple
MAS Rating: 4+
Mac Platform: Intel
OS Version: OS X 10.13.4 or later

Includes: Pre-K’ed (TNT)

Web Site: http://www.apple.com/osx/server/
Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/macos-server/id883878097?mt=12

Overview

Designed for macOS and iOS devices, macOS Server makes it easy to share files, schedule meetings, synchronize contacts, develop software, host your own website, publish wikis, configure Mac, iPhone, and iPad devices, remotely access your network, and more.

macOS Server is an application you can add to macOS right from the Mac App Store. Anyone can quickly and easily turn a Mac into a server that’s perfect for home offices, businesses, schools, developers, and hobbyists alike.

Here’s what you’ll get with macOS Server:

Profile Manager

• Mobile device management for Mac and iOS devices
• Simplified management and deployment of iOS and macOS.
• Distribution of institution licensed apps and books purchased from the Volume Purchase Program to users or devices
• Install Software Updates on devices running iOS 10 and mac OS 10.12.
• Device Enrollment Program integration
• Webbased administration console
• Selfservice user portal for clearing passcodes, remote lock, and remote wipe

Calendar Server

• Share calendars, schedule meetings and events, and book conference rooms
• Standardsbased CalDAV server for access from Mac, iPad, iPhone, and PC
• View availability with free/busy lookups
• Email invitations and push notifications

Contacts Server

• Synchronize contacts with Mac, iPad, and iPhone
• Allow multiple users to access and update contacts
• Standardsbased CardDAV server

Wiki Server

• Pointandclick page edit to change formatting and insert images, movies, and attachments
• Access controls
• Tags and comments
• Revision history
• Document sharing
• Quick Look previews

Mail Server

• Standardsbased SMTP, IMAP, and POP server
• Push notifications
• SSL encryption
• Adaptive junk mail filtering
• Virus detection and quarantine

Virtual Private Network

• Remote access for your network services
• Encrypted VPN connections for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and PC

Xsan

• Blocklevel SAN file sharing with concurrent read/write access
• Xsan volume hosting and configuration
• Volume management, storage pooling, stripping, and volume mapping
• Realtime monitoring, graphs, and event notifications
• Metadata controller failover and file system journaling

Server App

• Local and remote management
• Users and group settings
• View realtime graphs of server usage
• Receive alerts on network changes, certificate expiration, storage usage, and more

Some features require an Apple ID and/or compatible Internet access; additional fees and terms apply. Some features require program enrollment. Some features are not available in all countries.

What’s New in macOS Server 5.6.1

Server App

This Fall, Apple plans to cease bundling the open source services (Calendar Server, Contacts Server, Messages Server, Mail Server, DNS, DHCP, VPN Server, and Websites) in macOS Server, and will guide customers to acquire these same services directly from the open source providers. For more information, please refer to: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208312

To help prepare for this transition, these services— which are still included in macOS Server 5.6—will no longer be visible in the Server App sidebar for new installations. Existing installations that update to macOS Server 5.6 will be unaffected and will continue to work as usual.

We continue to actively develop and support the other features of macOS Server, including Open Directory, Profile Manager and Xsan management.

Profile Manager

Support for new restrictions, payloads, and commands:

macOS 10.13.4

• Configure Software Update delay from 190 days (default 30 days)
• Configure access to Accessibility APIs for testing apps
• Enable and disable Bluetooth
• Configure kernel extension permissions
• Configure Content Caching
• Device Enrollment Program Skip option for iCloud Storage

iOS 11.3

• Delay when a user will see a new Software Update in the UI (supervised only)
• Configure Software Update delay from 190 days (default 30 days supervised only)
• ScheduleOSUpdate now supports an optional version number to install a specific eligible iOS version (supervised only)
• Enable and disable Bluetooth (supervised only)
• Require FaceID authentication before AutoFill (supervised only)
• Require teacher consent to leave a teachercreated Classroom class (supervised only)
• Restrict Remote connections from whitelisted devices (supervised only)
• AlwaysOn VPN now supports a CellularServices service exception
• Device Enrollment Program Skip option for Privacy pane
• Erase Device command now supports preventing proximity setup in Setup Assistant

tvOS 11.3

• Configure Movie ratings, TV ratings, app ratings, explicit content
• Device Enrollment Program skip option for “Where is this Apple TV?”

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