Comments on: Apple macOS Server Formally Discontinued

By: Claus Jacobsen

Claus Jacobsen — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:57:37 +0000

Well – the server app was nothing but a fancy graphical frontend for what was already available in the OS – all you need to know are the commands in the terminal, and you could do the exact same thing. But with new solutions coming out and none of apple’s internal solutions developing, it was just time.
In the end, most companies were using it for the caching server functionality, and that became automated and completely built in, so no need for any of that anymore either.
I had the technical apple certifications for some years but no longer uphold them. The main focus of these partner required certifications were more for enterprise integration and not so much normal macos troubleshooting. But we did have to go through all functionality in the server.app 🙂

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 11:31:59 +0000

Around 2008-2012 I found myself as IT-by-default in a video production department that operated on an xsan environment with several xserves. As you would expect with apple it was a reasonably capable server environment for someone that knew just enough to be dangerous. The “server os” was pretty much standard OS X, while the server specific stuff was essentially a GUI for your standard BSD underpinnings.

These days I’m no longer in an IT role, but I do have some stuff going on at home, and use Linux like everyone else 🙂

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 02:17:27 +0000

Wait a minute…! Apple/MAC had an actual server-like OS?!!! (First I’ve heard of it!)

By: hoohoo

hoohoo — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 23:48:36 +0000

Fare well, MacOS Server, we hardly knew you!