[MacTUG] About macOS Server 5.7.1 and later - Apple Support (CA)

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

Boy I have writing this email…
MAD are still using an MDM server for our labs (which is running Monterey). Frankly I am doubtful this lab will survive as a mac lab.

Years ago (> a decade?) I could rationalize having both windows labs and mac labs. At the time, the ease of building a mac lab (and the complexity of building a pc lab) was such that I felt the total time in building both sets of labs was about the same if all the labs were windows. BTW in case you are wondering, going the “all Mac” route was not possible as key software was (and is) only available on windows.

Currently, the (uw supplied) tools for building windows environments have massively improved things, whereas all the tools I used to use (macAdmin, DeployStudio, Apple Server) have gone by the wayside. Sure we could use an awesome MDM like JAMF but the price and learning time and staff time to maintain it is not really worth it for the small number of macs involved (~30-40)

This is NOT saying that UW should not pursue common a mac management tool. But for us in MAD the use of it in a lab environment (were I am/was using Apple Server) is not needed.

Please insert the obligatory “I am glad I did not get an apple tattoo decades ago when I was a 100% fanboi” comment

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Faculty of Environment | University of Waterloo
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From: MacTUG <mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca> on behalf of Glenn Anderson <anderson at uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 2:30 PM
To: MacTUG <MacTUG at lists.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Peter Schepers <peter.schepers at uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: [MacTUG] About macOS Server 5.7.1 and later - Apple Support (CA)

I don’t know if this was mentioned at a meeting, but Apple has discontinued macOS Server and it won’t run on Ventura and such.

Is anyone still running it? I know that at one point some people were using it as an MDM server.



https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT208312



About macOS Server 5.7.1 and later
As of April 21, 2022, Apple has discontinued macOS Server. Existing macOS Server customers can continue to download and use the app with macOS Monterey.
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