Apple Training Series : Mac OS X Server Essentials (Apple Training)

Apple Training Series : Mac OS X System Administration Reference, Volume 1 (Apple Training)

Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger

Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Support Essentials (Apple Training)

Web Servers

Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration

Format: Paperback
Author: Michael Bartosh
ReleaseDate: 01 May, 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:

No other OS X server book comes close
4 out this is still the number one book on Mac OS X server there is. Even with 10. Period. Bartosh goes deep in to all areas of OS X server and provides excellent examples for you to follow. This book has saved my hide on a number of occasions and I can't wait to see what he comes up with next. If you only buy one OS X server book this is it. .

This is a "must-have" book for all level users related to Apple systems administration.


Inside the first part, there is a chapter about planning system deployment reviewing different scenarios as first task to take care of. This book is organized into seven parts and one appendix: from new system installation to remote management and different kind of clients supported. The author exposes some basic ideas about system administration as well as strategies and tools to resolve a large number of common problems.

One of the key points of this book is its better organization centered around system deployment phases than Apple documentation. Continuous explanations and small tricks to monitor and tune the system are made across the entire book sections. There is exhaustive information about installation with graphical tools, command line and network setup. The most appreciated resource can be screenshots: it allows to follow all the explanations without any problem to new Apple system administrator.

Authors, as advanced users, describe in an easy but deeply enough way all management tools of all system services either graphical or command line versions. Some other Open Source or even propietary tools are described when they are good alternatives to Apple ones.

All the chapters contain "best practices" sections and background knowledge to really understand their functions.

This is a "must-have" book for all level users related to Apple systems administration. I'm really impatient waiting for Tiger revision.

Best MacOS X Server book
Apple's documentation has been sparse and this book covers that deficiency with great aplomb. For those who are familiar with MacOS X and would like to learn the server-side of the equation, this book is it. This is the best Mac OS X Server book on the market right now. Too bad O'Reilly just cancelled the Tiger version because I would have first in line for the next edition.
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I hope they change their minds because it will certainly leave a big void in future MacOS X Server documentation.