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==Technical specifications==
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'''File and print services'''
* Mac ([[Apple Filing Protocol|AFP]], AppleTalk PAP, [[Internet Printing Protocol|IPP]])
* [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] ([[Server Message Block|SMB/CIFS]]: Apple SMBX in Lion Server — previously [[Samba software|Samba]] 2, IPP)
* [[Unix-like]] systems ([[Network File System (protocol)|NFS]], [[Line Printer Daemon protocol|LPR/LPD]], IPP)
* Internet ([[FTP]], [[WebDAV]])

'''Directory services and authentication'''
* [[Apple Open Directory|Open Directory]] ([[OpenLDAP]], [[Kerberos (protocol)|Kerberos]], [[Simple Authentication and Security Layer|SASL]])
* Windows NT Domain Services (removed in Lion Server, previously [[Samba software|Samba]] 2)
* [[Backup Domain Controller]] (BDC)
* [[Lightweight Directory Access Protocol|LDAP]] directory connector
* [[Active Directory]] connector
* BSD configuration files (/etc)
* [[RADIUS]]

'''Mail services'''
* [[SMTP]] ([[Postfix (software)|Postfix]])
* [[Post Office Protocol|POP]] and [[IMAP]] ([[Dovecot (software)|Dovecot]])
* [[Transport Layer Security|SSL/TLS]] encryption ([[OpenSSL]])
* [[Mailing list]]s ([[Mailman (GNU)|Mailman]])
* [[Webmail]] ([[RoundCube]])
* [[E-mail spam|Junk mail]] filtering ([[SpamAssassin]])
* [[Computer virus|Virus]] detection ([[ClamAV]])

'''Calendaring'''
* [[iCal Server]] ([[CalDAV]], iTIP, iMIP)

'''Web hosting'''
* [[Apache HTTP Server|Apache]] Web server (2.2 and 1.3)
* SSL/TLS (OpenSSL)
* [[WebDAV]]
* [[Perl]] (5.8.8), [[PHP]] (5.2), [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] (1.8.6), [[Ruby on Rails|Rails]] (1.2.3)
* [[MySQL]] 5 (replaced by [[PostgreSQL]] in Lion Server)
* [[Capistrano (software)|Capistrano]], [[Mongrel (web server)|Mongrel]]
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'''Collaboration services'''
* [[Wiki Server]] ([[RSS]])
* [[iChat Server]] 3 ([[Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol|XMPP]])

'''Application servers'''
* [[Apache Tomcat]] (6)
* [[Java SE]] virtual machine
* [[WebObjects]] deployment (5.4)
* [[Apache Axis]] ([[SOAP]])

'''Media streaming'''
* [[QuickTime Streaming Server]] 6 (removed in Lion Server)
* QuickTime Broadcaster 1.5

'''Client management'''
* Managed Preferences
* [[NetBoot]]
* [[NetInstall]]
* [[Apple Software Update|Software Update]] Server
* Portable home directories
* Profile Manager (new in Lion Server)

'''Networking and VPN'''
* [[Domain Name System|DNS]] server ([[BIND]] 9)
* [[DHCP]] server
* [[Network address translation|NAT]] server
* [[VPN]] server ([[L2TP]]/[[IPSec]], [[PPTP]])
* [[Firewall (computing)|Firewall]] ([[IPFW2]])
* [[Network Time Protocol|NTP]]
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'''Distributed computing'''
* [[Xgrid]] 2

'''High-availability features'''
* Automatic recovery
* [[Journaling file system|File system journaling]]
* IP [[failover]] (dropped in OS X 10.7 and later<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.schellworth.de/os_x:ipfailover|title=osx:ipfailover|access-date=September 11, 2014|last=Schellworth|first=Ph.|archive-date=March 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311063801/http://wiki.schellworth.de/os_x:ipfailover|url-status=dead}}</ref>)
* Software [[RAID]]
* Disk space monitor

'''File systems'''
* [[HFS+]] (journaled, [[case sensitivity|case sensitive and case insensitive]])
* [[File Allocation Table|FAT]]
* [[NTFS]] (write support only available on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server)
* [[Unix File System|UFS]] (read-only)

'''Management features'''
* Server Assistant
* Server Admin
* Server Preferences
* Server Status widget
* Workgroup Manager
* System Image Utility
* [[Secure Shell]] (SSH2)
* Server Monitor
* RAID Utility
* [[SNMP]]v3 ([[Net-SNMP]])
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