Mac OS X Tiger and Tiger Server Presentation

Welcome to Tiger and Tiger Server
Presented by: Apple Systems Engineer Patrick Beedles

When & Where
May 18, 9 am to 12 pm, University of Northern Iowa, Lang Hall 208

Who Should Attend
This presentation is intended to be an introduction to the new features of both Tiger and Tiger Server. Faculty, staff, and students should attend that are currently using Apple technology as well as those that are not currently using Apple technology that are considering Apple because of it's Open Source foundation and ability to easily integrate into existing infras ructures.

Description
The purpose of this event is to quickly introduce many of the new features of Tiger and Tiger Server. The presentation material is centered around the most compelling reasons to run Tiger and Tiger Server in an educational environment. About 1.5 hours will be spent covering each OS (Tiger and Tiger Server). The live demo content will likely center around the following technologies listed below:

Tiger - Demo Feature Overview
Spotlight
Spotlight is the new desktop search technology in Tiger that finds anything on your computer as quickly as you can type.
- Finder
- Mail
- Preview / PDF
- System Preferences
- Smart Folders / Smart Mailboxes

Dashboard
Dashboard is a new feature in Tiger that provides instant access to a collection of lightweight applications that perform common tasks and provide information that make you more productive.
- Weather
- Translator
- Stocks

Safari RSS
The world’s fastest web browser for the Mac — now boasts built-in RSS support.
Automater- Automator is Tiger's personal automation assistant that lets you do complex or repetitive tasks easily. This demo will show how Automator can be used to create a reusable automation tool that can be shared with others.

Tiger Server - Demo Feature Overview
Mobile Home Directories
With Portable Home Directories in Mac OS X Server v10.4, you can centrally manage the home directories of your portable Mac clients and yet allow each user online and offline access from the office and the road. When users reconnect their iBook or PowerBook to the network, Mac OS X automatically syncs up the home directory with the one on the server.

iChat Server
Host your own private and secure inside-the-firewall iChat server that uses your own namespace and works with both Tiger’s iChat AV and popular Jabber clients available on Windows, Linux and PDAs.

Weblog Server
Publish articles and syndicate content easily by hosting your own Weblog server. With calendar-based navigation and customizable themes, Tiger Server makes it easy for users and groups to publish journals and share project information.

Software Update Server
Reduce network costs by controlling the distribution of Apple software updates with your own Apple software update proxy/cache server.

Access Control Lists
Tiger Server goes beyond the limitations of traditional UNIX file permissions to give you greater flexibility over assigning access permissions to files, folders and network services. Access Control Lists (ACLs) in Tiger Server le you set a whole group as the owner of a file or folder rather than just an individual — you can even assign unique access permissions for multiple users and groups.