Once a pariah in the enterprise, Apple has quietly emerged as a darling of executives and professionals because of the ease of use of the iPhone and the iPad. We look at how the influx of Apple devices is changing the tech landscape in business. Has long had a love/hate relationship with server operating systems and hardware.
Jan 29, 2018 - Apple doesn't say Profile Manager is history, but since Profile Manager. Oh, and have you been using macOS Server to run your web server?
When Apple wanted to be a serious business player, it would play up its server offerings. When Steve Jobs focused Apple on consumers with iPhones and Macs, its server lines dropped out of sight. Now Apple is finally throwing in the towel on servers.
Of course, Apple didn't come right out and say that. Instead, in a support note, labelled, Apple announced: 'macOS Server is changing to focus more on management of computers, devices, and storage on your network.
As a result, some changes are coming in how Server works.' Apple then presents you with a laundry list of deprecated services. An ordinary user won't have a clue about what getting rid of these will mean. A sysadmin will know at a glance that Apple is ripping the guts out of macOS Server. Read also: First, Apple is getting rid of its calendar, contact, instant-messaging, and email servers. So, you can kiss Apple-supported internal communications goodbye. If, for the sake of security, you've been booting systems with Apple NetBoot, you can kiss that goodbye, too.
You can rebuild remote booting yourself with or, but it's a lot more work than you're used to on macOS Server. Do you have your remote workers login to your servers using a virtual private network (VPN)?
Well, sorry about that, but you'll need to install a new VPN server. Oh, and have you been using macOS Server to run your web server? How about a wiki? Again, get ready to set them up by hand.
Apple won't help you anymore with these. Read also: As for Caching Server, Time Machine Server, and File Sharing advanced options, Apple already moved those into into ordinary macOS - with the arrival of in September 2017. The integrated developer environment (IDE) Server was also moved into macOS's XCode. You'll still be able to use all these soon to be missing-in-action services in the forthcoming spring 2018 macOS Server update. But they will be removed in a future release of macOS Server. What should you do? Apple suggested you install and use replacement programs.
I've looked over Apple's suggested software list. Many of them are fine recommendations,. But, Apple promised that macOS Server is 'so easy to use, you don't need your own IT department.'
That's no longer the case. If you're depending on macOS Server to run your business in the future, you're going to need an experienced full-time sysadmin.
Read also: So, what's left? Well, which enables Macs to access Xsan or StorNext storage volumes over Fibre Channel or Ethernet, appears to have made the cut. This news doesn't come as too much of a surprise.
If anything, it's surprising that macOS Server has lasted this long. For decades, people argued that. Those arguments, like macOS Server, are, for all practical purposes, dead now.
Yes, iPhones and Macs are used in businesses, but they're edge devices. At the heart of the enterprise - servers and clouds - Apple doesn't exist. Stick a fork in macOS Server. Related stories. Related Topics. By registering you become a member of the CBS Interactive family of sites and you have read and agree to the,.
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Accessing the Profile Manager. SeaMonkey (or Mozilla Suite) users can access the Profile Manager from an open program window by selecting 'Tools - Switch Profile.' From the menu. You can use the -profilemanager when starting the application, as specified below. A capitalized -P in place of -profilemanager should also work.
Caution: Do not use -profile manager (do not add a space). This previously caused a ' error. Currently, due to the fix for, the command line argument -profile will create a new profile folder at (if it doesn't already exist) and launches the application with a profile that isn't listed in the Profile Manager. (For example, if you run firefox.exe -profile manager on Windows 7, then Firefox will launch with a new profile and a folder named 'manager' will be created in the C: Users directory.).
Windows Close the application. SeaMonkey or Mozilla Suite: As an alternative to using 'Tools - Switch Profile.' Menu option (e.g., if SeaMonkey is not open) you can use the 'Profile Manager' shortcut located in the Windows Start - Programs menu (if available). You can also use the instructions given below for Firefox, substituting seamonkey.exe ( for Mozilla Suite, mozilla.exe) or the full path to the executable. For example, enter the following in the Windows Run box (you should substitute the actual path to the ):. 'C: Program Files SeaMonkey seamonkey.exe' -P Thunderbird: Use the 'Profile Manager' shortcut located in the Windows Start - Programs menu (if available). You can also use the Firefox instructions given below for entering the full path to the.
Mac OS X Close the application completely. Once you've accessed the Profile Manager as described above, click on 'Create Profile' and follow the instructions.
Mozilla Suite/SeaMonkey users may have to click on 'Manage Profiles.' Enter a descriptive name for the new profile and click the Finish button. Before starting with a selected profile, uncheck the 'Don't ask at startup' option if you want the Profile Manager to appear each time you open the program; otherwise, the selected profile will automatically start each time. A new will be created in the default folder location. If you created the new profile because your old one was corrupt, you can and selectively to the new profile. Note: If you use Extreme Security or ZoneAlarm ForceField, the 'Browser Security' option to run your browser in virtualization mode, if selected, can prevent new Firefox profiles from being saved. Turn off the virtual browsing feature, if you use one of these ZoneAlarm products.
Firefox Thunderbird and SeaMonkey 2 Unlike Mozilla Suite and SeaMonkey 1.x, a new profile folder is not automatically created when you choose the folder location for your new Firefox, Thunderbird, or profile. Whatever folder you select will become the profile folder.
If you want to choose a custom location for your new profile, do not select a folder that contains existing data. You must create a new, empty folder (preferably with the same name as the new profile) and then choose that folder in the Create Profile Wizard. Note: If your operating system does not provide a 'New Folder' button within the Create Profile Wizard, you will need to manually create the new folder. Warning: If the folder you select for the new profile contains non-Mozilla files (such as the 'My Documents' folder on Windows), your profile data will be intermingled with the non-Mozilla data.
This can result in the loss of all of the data in that folder, including non-Mozilla files, if you later delete the profile. Deleting a Firefox Thunderbird or SeaMonkey 2 profile Warning: The folder for the profile you are planning to delete may contain non-Mozilla files, if you created the profile in a custom location.
If you use the 'Delete Files' option to delete that profile, the entire folder and all of the contents will be deleted, including any non-Mozilla files it may contain. This cannot be undone! For this reason, you should choose the 'Don't Delete Files' option when deleting a profile.
If you want to delete the profile folder, you can do that manually. Renaming a profile You can use the Profile Manager 'Rename Profile' feature to rename an existing profile but this is not recommended. Renaming a profile changes its name in the Profile Manager list of available profiles but does not change the actual name. If you use multiple profiles, renaming a profile can make it more difficult to tell which profile belongs to which profile folder without taking additional steps, such as checking the profile folder contents or looking inside the and comparing the Name and Path. If you do rename a profile, any must be changed accordingly. The profile name is case-sensitive and using spaces in a profile name will require enclosing the profile name in quotes in a shortcut.
This can be a problem if a specific profile is called by an extension such as ' where the options don't allow quotes, so is best to avoid using spaces. Profile Manager shortcut These instructions are for Windows. For Mac OS, see In some Windows installs, a 'Profile Manager' shortcut is placed on the Start menu programs list. For easier access to the Profile Manager, you can also create your own shortcut and place it on your desktop or in another convenient location.
For instance, to create a shortcut to the Firefox Profile Manager on Windows XP:. Go to the Firefox (usually C: Program Files Mozilla Firefox), right click the file 'firefox.exe', and select the option 'Create shortcut'. Right-click and rename the new shortcut 'Firefox Profile Manager', then right-click the shortcut again and select 'Properties'. In the Shortcut tab window, place the cursor at the end of the path inside the Target box, click once (so that the path is no longer highlighted) then add a SPACE and -profilemanager to the end of the path, like so:. 'C: Program Files Mozilla Firefox firefox.exe' -profilemanager.
Click OK to exit the Properties window. Drag the new 'Firefox Profile Manager' shortcut to the desktop or other location. Note: Using -P instead of profilemanager may also work, like so, using the same Firefox example:.
'C: Program Files Mozilla Firefox firefox.exe' -P Double-clicking the new shortcut should now start the Profile Manager, assuming Firefox is completely closed and not running in the background, as mentioned above.
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