“Apple is deprecating a significant portion of essential network services included in macOS Server this year, as outlined in a published support statement titled ‘Prepare for changes to macOS Server,'” Tim Hardwick reports for MacRumors.
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. A number of services will be deprecated, and will be hidden on new installations of an update to macOS Server coming in spring 2018. — Apple Inc.
“The note goes on to list a series of deprecated services that will be removed in a future release of macOS Server,” Hardwick reports, “including calendar and contact support, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name Services (DNS), mail, instant messages, virtual private networking (VPN), NetInstall, Web server, and the Wiki.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Its amazing macOS Server lasted this long.
SEE ALSO:
Apple all but kills macOS Server – January 29, 2018
Apple Mac servers: Why they still makes sense – March 23, 2015
A power user’s guide to OS X Server, Mavericks edition – December 10, 2013
OS X 10.9 Mavericks Server: Big changes for developers – November 1, 2013
Steve Jobs on Xserve cancellation: ‘Hardly anybody was buying them’ – November 08, 2010
Apple offers new $2999 Mac Pro Server to replace Xserve – November 05, 2010
Apple discontinues Xserve as of January 31; will continue to fully support existing units – November 05, 2010
This isn’t exactly an Enterprise friendly move now is it? Or maybe it doesn’t matter anymore’
It really doesn’t matter, and hasn’t for a long time. 🙁
As a small business person, who has been loyal to Apple with our first computer being the Mac Classic II, and being 99% Apple computers since then, and loyal through the darkest days, I feel like Apple cares less and less about small businesses.
We are now looking at hack’intosh boxes and a windows file/print server. Time Machine Server is something we need to look into replacing with something else too. There use to be an “ecosystem” of Apple’s that was handy for businesses. But now the Apple ecosystem is mainly for individuals/families.
I remember having an xserve and amazing that thing was engineered. Snow Leopard Server was the pinnacle of Mac OS Server software.
I find my loyalty and belief in Apple for our small business fading. In my personal life, I love the Apple ecosystem.
But Apple no longer makes it’s money from small business. It’s main focus is on disposable electronic devices. They seemed to have ignored the eduction market too. Our schools locally have are switching from MacBooks to Chromebooks.
Yup, Apple cares only about iPhones now. That’s it. All the rest is fluff to them, even though they say otherwise. Actions (or inactions) speak louder than words.
Thanks for keeping the same headline MDN, deprecate is a great alternative.
It’s too bad Mac Server is going that way, I guess there was just not that many using it, unfortunately.
Why they still call it Server then?
IMHO the entire “Server” should be a default, available part of MacOS for one and all, just as Apple had planned at one point. Allow developers to write drop in services that are controlled and observed under one as-simple-as possible interface, with a handy CLI one button away for more obscure aspects of any service.
I think the breaking out of “server” versions of an OS is just an artifact of the earlier days of our ongoing Dark Age Of Computing, prolonged as usual by the behavior Of Microsoft. They sell “Server” Windows versions. Therefore, the archaic concept lives on. I suppose there is other blame to go around as well, such as the general entrenched tech ignorance of the Enterprise, incoherent bad attitude toward Apple in the Enterprise, Apple’s limp tenacity toward the Enterprise and the general lack of interest in developing Enterprise software for Mac.
A fallen soufflé. 😟
Rather than “deprecating” I think you meant to say Apple is “defecating” on its server users.
Maybe just me but I’ve never heard “deprecating” used that way. I’m sure they are using it as a euphemism for “eliminating or neutering features” but I’m not completely sure. Where is William F Buckley when you need him!
I too long for the days of thoughtful conservatives. The current herd of mesmerized propaganda mouthpieces is incredibly dull-witted and inarticulate.
Oh good. Journalists are starting to actually quote Apple instead of turning ‘deprecate’ into apocalypse.
Maybe they’re not all TechTard JournalCysts. 😜