Apple discontinues macOS Server

[Arthur]

Link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208312

 

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

 

The most popular server features—Caching Server, File Sharing Server, and Time Machine Server are bundled with every installation of macOS High Sierra and later, so that even more customers have access to these essential services at no extra cost.

 

To help you migrate from Profile Manager to other MDM solutions, learn about choosing an MDM solution and planning your MDM migration.

 

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[Norphy]

To be honest, it’s more surprising to me that Apple have left it as long as they have to take it out back and shoot it. They’ve been slowly gimping it since they discontinued the xServe.

 

Oh well, life goes on.

[Wubbalubbadub]

Like above... but I thought it had already ended!

[DalekSec]

I thought this was a necro thread! Thought it had been EOL for years!

[psydii]

For a brief moment (just before iphone) it showed promise for being a distributed blogging and podcasting platform, all they needed to do was 1) make the code that ran the services on the server a bit more reliable 2)facilitate discovery and reverse proxy through icloud (as they did with other services back in the day)

 

They could have given their users a viable alternative to Facebook.

[Brimstone]

I bet there are still users on here clinging onto Profile Manager thinking it will work

[3s-gtech]

Yup, that's us! I doesn't really work now, right PITA on Macs and dead on iPads. Currently trying to get my head round ASM and Jamf licensing now!