Push Mail to iPhone working with Lion Server?

sbkeith wrote:

Lion Server's documentation states you must be running iOS 5 for push notifications to work

What documetation? Where?!

Here

Line 18.

It's also in the Dev portal, but unfortunately covered by NDA.

Scott

I would like to mention that I also have email Push Notifications on iOS 4.3.5 and Lion Server working fine. Thanks to the post above, I enabled Device Management and then installed the self-signed certificate on my iOS device by pointing its browser to https://<mydomainname>/mydevices, logging in, clicking on Profiles, and then installing the Trust Profile. Once that was done, all messages on my server were immediately pushed to my iPhone. Rock On!

Hi everyone,

I'm currently running Exchange 2007, OCS R2, a File Server, Domain Controller, and BES on 2 VM hosts. It's a energy hog, but pretty worry free. I have the only Mac desktop in my small office. My mac integrates into the domain no problem and I prefer using Mail, iCal, and Address book to Outlook. File browsing is a breeze and I use a small script to mount my shares in the background with popping up at each boot.

In the end though, we only need windows because of Quickbooks and while Intuit has released QB for the Mac, there is a specific feature we need that is not in it. So we will have to wait. In the meanwhile, I would like to replace all my computers with Mac Minis. And decomission my servers and replace it with a mac mini server. I was thinking about going 100% mac, my sales force already uses iPads. For the desktop, I already made a 09 Mac Mini (SSD+8GB of ram) into a Terminal Server and its flying perfect. I used thinstuff terminal server, it's fantastic at serving out w7 desktops and affordable under 200USD.

So on to the topic at hand... mail. I like exchange, its stable and the push is great. But I want to go all mac. So I think a hybrid senario is called for.

Mac Mini Server (using all the services minus Mail, iCal, and Address) with Thunderbolt storage 4TB Promise

Mac Lion desktops all around

Terminal Server all around for QB access

and

SBS 2011 running within a VM on the Mac Mini server (stored on the Promise) for exchange only.

There is a way to create a mesh between OD and AD, http://afp548.com/netboot/mactips/activedir.html but it's dated info now. I could always setup two sets of accounts...not a big deal once it's done as I have small company and don't have a lot of turn over.

If Apple's Mail, iCal, and Address sync grows up to full fledged push... I think we have a serious contender on our hands. Push notifications is NOT Push mail.

Thoughts anyone?

itsamacthing,

Moving to a Mac network from a PC one is not impossible and we help companies do it all the time. I was intrigued by your reference to "thinstuff terminal server" and I'll have to check into that for myself.

Regarding QuickBooks, we have had very little luck in switching people over from QuickBooks on PC to QuickBooks for Mac. Without exception, our customers were unhappy with the migration and so we began offering a Parallels or Terminal Server solution for them. However, nowadays, when customers ask us about QuickBooks migration, we steer them towards Account Edge. So far, all the customers we've moved from QuickBooks on PC to Account Edge for Mac have been pretty happy. There is some migration headaches to overcome and a little bit of a learning curve, but once the transition is complete, the Account Edge system works quite well and gives our customers all the features they were looking for in QuickBooks. You might want to check into it and see if it's a fit for you.

Regarding collaboration via Exchange... Mac OS X Server's collaboration suite isn't bad. We use the calendar, contacts, and email system of Mac OS X Server extensively and can recommend it in most cases. If you're 100% Mac, it is even easier. Here's what I can tell you...

Mail works GREAT. I have no problems with the email system on Mac OS X Server. Solid as a rock and easy to move if you need to. Works find with PC email clients like Outlook or, better yet, Thunderbird. Lion Server also has a new webmail engine that is pretty snazzy.

Calendar is OK. Had some trouble with invites to individuals on other systems, but besides that it works well. I could easily work with and move the data store on Snow Leopard server, but in the new Lion system, I cannot figure out where the data is stored or how to work with it. Accessing calendars via Outlook on PC isn't very good, but I understand working with Thunderbird works well (calendar clients must support CalDAV). Lion Server also has a webcal engine for working with calendars through a browser that works pretty well.

Address Book is OK. If your address book is really large (10,000 contacts or so), it may not work well for you. It had some MAJOR problems in Snow Leopard (1000 contacts would slow the address book client down to a crippling crawl during updates), but that has been improved and maybe fixed in Lion. As far as I know, there is no way to work with the Address Book if you're on a PC, so keep that in mind. No way to look at contacts through a browser either.

Anyway, I think this message is long winded enough. I hope this answers some of your questions!

Alex

Sorry guys. Can I say this is the wrong thread for this. Please start a new one and discuss there. This is totally off topic.