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About Server Admin Tools 10.5.7

Learn about Server Admin Tools 10.5.7.

Server Admin Tools 10.5.7 contain remote administration tools, documentation, and utilities that you can install on a computer other than your server. This version requires Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.5.8 and is required to administer Mac OS X Server version 10.5.7 or 10.5.8 remotely. The Server Admin Tools 10.5.7 are available as an automatic Software Update for Macs running Mac OS X 10.5.7 with version 10.5 or later of the Server Admin Tools already installed, and as a manual download from Apple Support Downloads.

Important: If you have moved any of the Server Admin Tools out of their original locations (inside /Applications/Server/), the update may continue to appear in Software Update even after you have installed it. Return the Server Admin Tools to their original location before using Software Update, or remove any duplicate copies of the Server Admin Tools.

What's new?

Server Admin Tools 10.5.7 include several improvements:

Server Admin

  • Addresses an issue that could cause the Netboot service to be shown as unavailable ("grayed out") in Server Admin.

  • Adds NetBoot/NetInstall model filters for Macs introduced in early 2009.

Server Preferences

  • Administrators can now remove sharepoints in Server Preferences.

System Image Utility

  • Improves stability when adding a metapackage to a workflow.

  • If you set up a workflow with the "Change ByHost preferences to match client after install" option enabled, the preferences will now be correctly applied on computers whose ByHost preference file names contain a UUID identifier instead of a MAC address identifier.

  • Adds NetBoot/NetInstall model filters for Macs introduced in early 2009.

Workgroup Manager

  • When importing preferences, "Import as ByHost preferences" is now available when selecting a ByHost preference file whose name contains a UUID identifier instead of a MAC address identifier.

  • Improves ability to pick Login and Logout scripts when setting Login preferences in Workgroup Manager.

Along with the above improvements, Server Admin Tools 10.5.7 includes these introduced in Server Admin Tools 10.5.6:

Server Admin

  • Fixes an issue that could cause Server Admin to stop responding when propagating permissions on a folder which is on a volume other than the boot volume.

  • Adds NetBoot/NetInstall model filters for the latest MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air computers.

Server Monitor

(Server Admin Tools 10.5.6 v1.1)

  • Enables monitoring of Xserve (Early 2009), including discovery of available servers via Bonjour

System Image Utility

  • When deploying a system image created from a volume, the target computers will no longer have identical local KDC files. For more information, see this article.

  • Adds NetBoot/NetInstall model filters for the latest MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air computers.

And the improvements delivered in Server Admin Tools 10.5.3 and Server Admin Tools 10.5.5 are included.

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