With MCX long-dead(ish) you’re now better off doing policies through configuration profiles. With Apple’s Enterprise Connect and Nomad, we no longer need to bind in order to get Kerberos functionality. The better news is that I’m not actually sure you need a directory service in the traditional sense that you’ve built directory services. The good news is that you only do directory services migrations every decade or two. Making Mac OS X Unix Compliant Certifiedīefore we have this conversation, I want to give you some bad news.They just couldn’t seem to get the stability or reliability down.Īt one point my old job was shipping entire Xserve RAIDs to Cupertino for debugging data integrity issues. It was really nice stuff, and really cost effective compared to Windows. When it was a $1000 separate distribution of Mac OS. As of 5.12.2, the following two services are supported:īoth services are not currently available outside of macOS Server, so Apple discontinuing macOS Server also means the end of the line for Apple’s Open Directory directory service and Apple’s Profile Manager MDM service.īack in the day I did a lot of work with the old Mac OS Server releases.
MacOS Server 5.12.2 has shed many of the features once supported by macOS Server. The most popular server features-Caching Server, File Sharing Server, and Time Machine Server are bundled with every installation of macOS High Sierra and later, so that even more customers have access to these essential services at no extra cost. Existing macOS Server customers can continue to download and use the app with macOS Monterey. As of April 21, 2022, Apple has discontinued macOS Server.
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