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Chapter 1 System Overview and Supported Standards 17
What’s New in Mac OS X Server v10.6
Mac OS X Server v10.6 oers major enhancements in several key areas:
Address Book Server Â
Mac OS X Server v10.6 introduces the rst open standards-based Address Book
Server Based on the emerging CardDAV specication, which uses WebDAV to
exchange vCards, sharing contacts across multiple computers.
Remote Access Â
Mac OS X Server v10.6 delivers push notications to users outside your rewall, and
a proxy service gives them secure remote access to email, address book contacts,
calendars, and specied internal websites.
Collaboration services improvements Â
Mac OS X Server v10.6 augments collaboration features with wiki and blog
templates optimized for viewing on iPhone; provides content searching across
multiple wikis; and enables attachment viewing in Quick Look. It also introduces
My Page, which gives users one convenient place to access web applications,
receive notications, and view activity streams across wikis.
iCal Server 2 Â
Mac OS X Server v10.6 has a new iCal Server which includes shared calendars, push
notications, the ability to send email invitations to non-iCal Server users, and a
browser-based application for using calendars with many supported browsers.
Podcast Producer 2 Â
Mac OS X Server v10.6 has a new Podcast Producer which features an intuitive new
workow editor, support for dual-video source capture, and Podcast Library, which
lets you host locally stored podcasts and make them available for subscription by
category via Atom web feeds.
Mail Server improvements Â
Mac OS X Server v10.6 mail service increases its performance and scalability using
a new engine designed to handle thousands of simultaneous connections. Mail
services have been enhanced to include server-side email rules and vacation
messages.
Multicore optimizations Â
Mac OS X Server v10.6 supports “Grand Central,” a new set of built-in technologies
that makes all of Mac OS X Server multicore aware and optimizes it for allocating
tasks across multiple cores and processors.
64-bit support Â
Mac OS X Server v10.6 use 64-bit kernel technology to support up to 16 TB of
memory.