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Comment on StarDeploy – New package deployment software for OSX by Elektrische Zahnbuerste

Elektrische Zahnbuerste — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:06:48 +0000

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Comment on Shared Contacts in Lion Server by maximus

maximus — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:18:43 +0000

Hi, you know http://www.addressbookserver.com ? Its a Addressbook Server for Mac witch easily shares contacts among a group of computers.
1) The server exports LDIF an with some scripting (included in the .dmg) fills your LDAP tree.
2) They have also an app ABxLDAP witch uses the Mac building Sync to fill your LDAP tree.
3) Future Releases will include CardDAV & CalDAV
and they give you now a 10 user license for free

Since the disappointment with the Lion Server maybe a valid alternative.

Comment on Shared Contacts in Lion Server by maximus

maximus — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:06:12 +0000

Hi there, nice ScreenCast but: No i do not think that your way is the way most users think sharing of addresses should be (as everybody already mentioned). I expected that with Lion Server the address book server comes to its full functionality, sharing contacts by address book. *BUMMER*. There was even an easier way to accomplish that what you are doing back in 10.5 (Leopard). There was an utility called Directory. There you could simply drag your contacts from the AdressBook.app, and there where put into the People LDAP Tree. This App has vanished in 10.6, CardDav came out, and it was a great step back, which even 4 years later has not be “repaired”

Comment on Shared Contacts in Lion Server by Jono

Jono — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 09:14:27 +0000

@Jason Miller I did a few months ago when Lion was in BETA, but it was closed by Apple as a Duplicate. So hopefully they see that people want this and will add it soon.

Comment on Shared Contacts in Lion Server by Jason Miller

Jason Miller — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:38:02 +0000

Have you all thought about filing a bug report at Apple’s http://bugreport.apple.com or using the send feedback link on the Apple website?

Comment on Shared Contacts in Lion Server by mckingsley

mckingsley — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:27:35 +0000

@Jason Miller Well the main problem I also see is many users do not want to just be able to search for contacts but to be able to browse.

Comment on Shared Contacts in Lion Server by Jono

Jono — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:35:54 +0000

I agree, you should be able to share contact groups the same way you share calendars in iCal, right click/share/permission/read or Read & Write.. BOOM!

Now that CalDAV and CardDAV shear the same “server” i don’t see why this can’t be done…

@dczward

Comment on Shared Contacts in Lion Server by Jason Miller

Jason Miller — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:23:10 +0000

It’s certainly open to interpretation. In our workflow at the “day job,” this is pretty much what the doctor ordered – a list of contacts that are searchable through some criteria and updated through some sort of backend management process.

I can, however, see where smaller departments, families or workgroups would need the extra functionality to list and edit that you describe. For those situations, I would probably stick with a shared account that users can log in to and list/edit the contacts. With the advent of Profile Manager, you could deploy the setup of that account to all of the iOS devices and Lion Macs without having to hand out the password to your users.

Comment on Shared Contacts in Lion Server by dczward

dczward — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:17:09 +0000

Thanks for this, but I’m sure you’ll agree, this isn’t what most people expect for a shared contact server. They expect to be able to open Address Book, see shared contacts, and then, permissions allowing, be able to add/edit/delete contacts. Emailing the admin to add or update a shared record so a user can see it is unwieldy and ridiculous. It just baffles me why Apple would bother to advertise this as a feature that no one can reasonable expect to use.

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Saving iPad Documents to Dropbox — Mon, 23 May 2011 04:29:21 +0000

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