WWDC2000 Session 162

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Kind: captions Language: en um it is my pleasure to be able to spend a couple minutes with you to introduce you to another incredibly important session here as a developer conference focusing on the Mac os10 product but in particular the server oriented version and a number of the great capabilities that will be bringing to the market this is not a product disclosure opportunity we're going to talk about a number that the critically important technologies and I'll give you a good road map where you can plan your product development and see just the whole server strategy at Apple I introduce the Mac os10 overview on Monday afternoon after the keynote and I think it's incredibly appropriate to introduce and talk about the server product because at Apple you know it truly is the case that we're going to build a better personal computer by focusing on both the desktop as well as the network connectivity and the services that a server can provide so the the agenda for today is pretty straightforward and very simple we want to press upon you the fact that the user experience in the 21st century clearly involves a high degree of internet and network integration it's essential for all of our key target markets from education both k12 and higher ed the creative professional community and even increasingly in in consumer spaces and to accomplish the goal of articulating on how strongly we believe that will talk about our overall server strategy give you a technology update from last year and how the various technologies has evolved on the Mac OS 10 platform and in turmeric intermixed throughout all of the content today we've got the the server team from the software engineering organization to walk you through each of those will make a point of identifying where there are areas that we're just not going to focus great opportunities for third-party solutions in this whole internet connected world in which we all live we will give you hints in terms of what's happening to the Mac left end server product line how it relates from a technology perspective to Mac os10 so the full desktop operating system as i mentioned developer opportunities and also very essential and important is you need to know where you can learn more information there's a number of sessions throughout the remaining days of the conference that talk about some of the specific key technologies and a little bit more depth and you'll certainly have an opportunity to meet the server team with QA at the end of this session so it's very clear that our strategy on the server is to focus on delivering capabilities that are truly innovative that scale to meet the needs of an apple network and what our McIntosh customers are looking for and a strategy that is centered and predicated on working with established existing standards whenever humanly possible we want to make sure that our technology fits in we want to make sure that we interoperate to a very high degree we're not a big iron server company from a hardware perspective obviously we pre install and preload our server software on top of special server configurations of our of our Hardware line but that design center is around a powerful desktop computer platform it's not a big iron server so that puts us in a very very strong focus of meeting the needs of department level workgroup servers where administration ease-of-use is one of the most important single principles that guides the capabilities and the features that we add into the product making systems incredibly easy to manage and to set up for a workgroup you need to focus on meeting the comprehensive needs of all of the solutions and services that a given network would expect and require and clearly we don't live in a world where there's a brand new customer and a brand new building that doesn't have existing wiring or existing servers to fit into so interoperability again is a critical critical reality and it's obviously a goal to make integration of our technology very very smooth and seamless we do certainly get asked the question a lot what is Apple doing building servers and we absolutely passionately believe that you can't deliver a great user experience on the desktop if you don't have a great server backing it up there are areas where Apple can truly understand how to optimize to meet the needs of Mac users in areas where competitive servers will just never have that same degree of attention to detail or polish or focus and we really believe the mission at Apple hopefully you've heard time and time again this week is to build the best possible personal computer and in in the 21st century and certainly in the Mac os10 era that requires having an incredibly strong server platform so where are we going well Apple share IP for many many many years has been an unbelievably great product for us it's been the number one server in the education market pretty much forever focuses on incredible ease of use with great general purpose services from file print web mail service now with the current Apple share IP product with Mac os10 we're going to have an incredibly powerful platform as you saw hopefully in the hardware keynote Tuesday morning Mac OS 10 from an infrastructure perspective is capable of some incredibly great things we're going to have an incredibly great file system very modern Network environment and as as was hinted in the in the keynote an enablement of symmetric multiprocessing all of these capabilities when you add it to the wealth of services that Apple share provides leads us with an incredibly strong platform that is powerful robust scalable and is easy to administer and manage also add on top of that the innovative new capabilities that Mac OS 10 on server provides net booting the easiest way to get a network say a classroom in a lab set up with almost zero administration quicktime streaming quicktime is transforming how people communicate over the web a powerful engine and we've delivered quicktime streaming with the macula 10 server product and then you take all of that with the context of open source the fact that the Darwin layer we ship the source code to the very foundation of the operating system and it allows and enables certain opportunities to enhance the system for you to take it in directions that maybe we haven't had the chance to prioritize and it makes for a much more open and easy to work environment for certainly as a developer community you add all of that together and you have what we believe and we're very excited about is just an incredible the best ever server that Apple has ever produced so let me just spend a couple minutes talking about some of the some of the history and some of the lineage behind our current servers and I'll focus on maybe just two key areas one in k-12 and then one very close to Apple when Mac os10 server was introduced last March there's a number of very powerful capabilities but one that was incredibly exciting very bleeding edge in terms of a new technology introduction was net food and we consciously picked a number of test sites that we would be able to evaluate and test the technology one of those was a k-12 school district hacienda de la fuente and the the benefits of being able to take a server and configure it with a version of the mac OS operating system that had the right set of extensions the right set of preferences the right applications and literally just walk in with an imac connect up a network connection hold down the end key and that imac would boot across the network off of that server enabled such incredible incredible opportunities to manage large scale networks in ways that weren't possible before some of the anecdotes about that introduction have been just great the configuration of the server to begin with and this is our first generation server literally in two two and a half hours the entire network completely configured up and running booting a classroom the equivalent administration for competitive operating systems and server operating systems was two and a half days on average and it really has transformed the way that school district can deliver content students are free to roam from machine to machine to machine their work environment is always there from the administration perspective they are able to keep their network up-to-date with minimal investment it's been a highlight in terms of how the feature of technology can really change the way that people teach and learn using computers as a tool and we've seen just incredible interest around the world in the new technology it's actually expanded well beyond the k-12 market even though that was our initial primary focus another really amazing capability with Mac os10 server in terms of its robustness and the web objects application server solution for which there are 18 tracks here at the conference this week it's just some of the incredible things you can do in terms of delivering web-based services in concert with all the the other technologies that the server provides a couple interesting little anecdotes about about the power of mac OS x server in that environment the the apple store is one of the leading ecommerce sites in the web app and market doesn't not just the computer technology market it is incredibly reliable we we basically on an annualized rate realize about a billion dollars worth of revenue that is sold through that store and that is running completely on mac OS x server it's an amazing thing to put the trust of that much revenue in the hands of technology but we believe incredibly strongly that you have to these words have been used before i eat your own dog food we use mac OS x server for the store we use it to deploy a number of the I tools solutions we're using it for internal networks and it's it's been absolutely amazing technology and we're investing very very heavily in a let's walk through the basic architecture hopefully this is now an old boring slide the the definitive architecture roadmap of Mac OS 10 where we have the Darwin layer it's the operating system plumbing strong graphics architecture a variety of application programming models and obviously the user interface how does the the server fit into this how do we map the the key technologies and the architectures and the layers that a server platform would provide well take that whole Mac os10 pitcher that you saw previously and that's the Mac os10 layer at the bottom of our server services roadmap the important message is that our server offerings start with the desktop product and then we add to it we have a number of services that will talk to in a moment but there's two key bands below and above are our individual services and that's a common directory architecture and a common administration model from the services services perspective file and print remains the primary services that a workgroup network expects to to be great and work well especially in the Mac oriented environment a wealth and portfolio of Internet services from web through mail and others comprehensive network services and network solutions and desktop management services desktop management allows a k-12 school administrator to create all of the policies in order to effectively run a lab of student driven machines are they allowed to access cd-roms what preferences should be managed on their behalf which preferences are they allowed to manage themselves and as I mentioned a comprehensive administration architecture so that we have the ease of use and the simplicity of managing a diverse set of server services so that's a very high level perspective on the our approach our architecture I'd like to invite on stage Greg burns and he will talk about the server solutions in the internet and it's all yours thanks again hi I'm going to talk to you a bit about what we're doing with additional services on top of the mac OS 10 operating system but before we get into that I want to say one more thing about nachos 10 the operating system itself and you've all seen this diagram now I think several times it has Darwin down at the bottom and hopefully many of you heard that Darwin is based in part on freebsd and FreeBSD is not a newcomer to the operating system world and there's a lot of experience dolton to fifth previously running as a server anybody here ever heard of Yahoo everybody's all be raising your hands yes how about hotmail right probably heard of that as well Microsoft hot meal both of these are networks that run on freebsd so previously has a good pedigree as a server operating system and as part of the core of mac OS 10 it provides a good foundation for providing the server and as kim said we're not a big iron company but for our customers there's a strong foundation there for building services so in mac OS x server we are providing some additional capabilities on top of the core operating system the first one is the directory services in the directory architecture and the goal here is that we want to have a common directory that underlies all of the services and applications using the network in Mac OS 10 and we do this in two parts through an API that any application can use and this allows any service any application whether it be on the client or the server access network resources and because they recognize even though we provide the directory with necklace and we recognize there are the directories in the world and perhaps you want to access nds or Kerberos or some other directory so this API provides for the ability to access other directories and in addition to accessing information in directories you also want to be able to figure out whether or not somebody is authorized to use resources John Smith may be in a directory but you also want to know if the client is in fact John Smith and give him authorization to access certain resources so the directory API is include a central authentication authorities wyd for that and together with the network information and the central authentication Authority you can manage users centrally in your network and so how does it fit together well the key piece here is that green band in the middle the directory access API this exists both on the Mac os10 desktop and on the server side and our software as well as your solutions can sit on top of this this is a public API we have extensive documentation for it and it's very easy to use very easy to get access to any directory service through this and underneath there you'll see that there are several plugins there's an open plug-in architecture and we use that ourselves this is key we use it ourselves for accessing net info so we're eating our own dog food here and all of the accesses to net info our directory service are done through this plug-in architecture we also provide ldap as well but in addition if you have a directory you can plug in there as well the API as I said it exists on the desktop as well as the server it's utilized by all of our services in our current mac OS 9 product Apple share IP we have directory services in there but they weren't you look universally utilized by all of our services and that's something we wanted to fix for Mac OS 10 so now in Mac OS 10 all the services are integrated with the core directory architecture and as install it is extensible it's a runtime plug-in architecture so you can develop new directory plugins that allow applications to access new directories without having to touch the code or recompile those applications and we ourselves will be delivering yet info and LDAP support as part of the core directory services in the desktop and on the server on the server side in addition to the API is for accessing the directory we're also providing the night fo directory service itself this is Apple's distribute the distributed replicated directory service and this provides the ability to manage users and resources on the network for a Mac os10 server we recognize again that there will be clients that don't use net info that want to access this directory and so we will be providing ldap server support as well to provide the same data response to ldap queries in addition we know that if we're using an external directory such as ldap for instance if you want services in mac OS tend to be able to take advantage of this we have a standard schema that you can enter into the LDAP directory to allow accounts of macro extent to log in and to utilize services through this LDAP directory and so that is all well defined in the API so where's the opportunities for you in all this well first and foremost if you have a directory if you're a systems developer or perhaps you're working at a university you have a proprietary directory a particular to your site we want your directory to work with mac OS 10 so develop a plug-in for your directory and secondly if your develop developing an application whether it be productivity application like email calendars etc or vertical application that you're doing directory access you want to use the directory API and finally of course managing directories is a complex activity and so there is opportunity or as well as applied management utilities for directory services there is an additional session tomorrow that you want to be aware of if you're interested in learning more about the directory API is and developing to them and that's going to be in this room tomorrow at the same time and so if you're interested in this please come back tomorrow and hear more about the directory API and how to develop plugins and how to use the API for your application ok so the directory of course sits on both the client and the server now we're going to talk specifically about some stuff that is part of the server and will be in the server version of the mac OS 10 operating system and i'll tell you a little bit about where we're going from a technology standpoint file services you know as jen mentioned is the core staple of the server offerings and so with file services we want to provide basic high performance reliable services for any client and in addition because you know Sherlock is a core part of apples technology we want to make sure that the indexing support for Sherlock is built into the file services as well so again how does it fit together well if you look this at the top you see a variety of file services that we want to support and Mac os10 server and the key here is that these are all shared key goal of math lesson servers to bring all these services together and to make the configuration and the privilege management integrated sitting on top of the mac OS 10 operating system and the mac OS 10 filesystem and file system privileges and of course all of these services use the directory service for user access and authentication so as far as the services themselves of course we have a SD and with ASP we've introduced some changes to the protocol so we have a new version 30 that adds some more features for support of Mac OS 10 mac OS 10 desktop in addition we have SMD sport that's something that is new to the upcoming version of mac OS x server or SMB sports based on samba i'm sure a lot of you are familiar with that it is the best third-party implementation of windows file sport around it's open source and it's been well tested and so that's something that we are going to be providing a mess with observer as well and Mac Weston server is Unix so underneath the hood in Darwin there is unix down there and so there is an SS in there as well and so that is additional service it will be provided for unix clients and of course ftp if you have web browsers we want to download across the internet and ftp of course needs to be there as well and one of the one of the shortcomings of the current version of mac OS x server that shipping today is that there are some limitations in the servers on what file systems you could export so we wanted to remove that so services like a fe and SMB in the future will be able to work with the various file services that come inside of mac OS 10 so whether it's HFS or UF s etc you'll be able to manage both of those and export both of those through the various services and of course as we saw in the picture all of it is unified a key part of our overall server offering is to make it very simple to use and unified in terms of the management and the performance is something that we've been working hard asked to make sure that it is very fast and you've probably seen some of the demos around SMG and you know we are working hard to make sure that in the future when S&C is available that will be able to take advantage of that and of course we leverage the reliability of the necklace came criminal as well and in addition we put some work into making sure that there are watchdog services and other capabilities to keep the server up and running in terms of developer opportunities here the first thing you should be aware of is that if you're a nasty developer on any platform you should support ASP 30 to provide full support for Mac OS 10 secondly if you're doing a directory plug-in that requires more than just an username and password for authentication then you'll want to know about custom user access methods that are part of the Apple share client and this allows you to do complex authentication dialog most cases you won't need this but if you're doing something really fancy is something you should be aware of and finally there are some extension API s and the capability to extend some of these services that you might be interested in as well print services is the other staple of a server offering and the key thing to be aware of about printing on Mac OS 10 is that there's a whole new print architecture and so if you're involved in any way in printing or print services this is something that you're going to want to learn a lot about and there's a couple sessions about that coming up and I'll point to those in a minute but another thing as far as printing in mac OS x server is that we've layered all of our services on this print architecture so in the past in mac OS 9 we had a completely separate print service completely separate for an architecture that couldn't leverage anything on the server side that had been done on the client side and of course that was a short coming we fix this so now as a developer that you have a driver for it took a particular type of printer it will work on both the server and the desktop so that's something that is good news and you should be aware of that in addition the printers that we support right now the printing protocol support postgres but if you want to do converters for instance that would take you to a raster printer on the back end for the desktop that will also work on the server so printing so we support clients both Macintosh windows and unix again the windows support comes from samba so we get very robust support there and the sport for the cues of course right now is any mac OS 10 so your printer but again as a developer you have the opportunity to put in postscript to raster converters and how those work on the server as well and of course because of the server you can manage the queues and management jobs over the network as part of our integrated management utilities as far as print opportunities for you as a developer first and foremost if you have a solution for publishing that runs on unix you should port it to mac OS 10 so if you're doing print services publishing workflow rip what have you there's an opportunity here it's very easy to port these services to 10 and you should get started and I know some people already have products funny here but if you don't it's time to get started and the other thing here which I mentioned is that driver for the client side will also work for the server so it makes you very easy the support additional types of printers on the server side as well as the desktop and of course there's also the opportunity to add additional management tools to our server products as well okay so that covers file and print now another key area of our service offering is internet services and Internet services of course any core piece of any servers we have an email services but we also have to technology areas that are very important to us here at apple and that's a quick time of web objects and you've probably heard a lot about those that's conference here so far on the web side course we want to have a web service that provides website hosting whether it be very simple something you want to get up and running in minutes to very sophisticated sites with virtual host a service that has a full-featured web server with high performance and of course we need to be integrated with our management solution and we need a sale of sport application development services like way of objects or like server-side scripting and the way we do this the forces with standard apache those if you're familiar with the current mac west end server know that it includes standard apache it is the standard of hashing module in fact if you took the open-source apache and we compiled it and substitute it in it would work just fine so this is fully standard Apache with a dynamic module API and to that we've added server-side scripting is available through standards apache modules and apache is well used throughout the internet there's about almost 9 million sites using apache now it's about sixty percent of the internet but even though it's while you it's not the highest performing server out there and so we put a lot of work into increasing the performance and so that's an area where we're going to continue to work on to have a really high performance product and in addition as some additional things that are coming in the product that we're looking into are of course increasing the capabilities as far as SSL any commerce and also as Sherlock indexing for the site as a developer of course because it is standard Apache it's very easy for you to come in and develop Apache module to enhance the server to add new capabilities or to bring modules onto the mac OS 10 platform and of course the opportunity for management tools exists as well as something it's very important website management the other area that we're looking at as far as core web services obviously as email services they're very widely used and very important and of course as part of mac OS 10 it needs to include and integrated and very easy to use email server and of course the it needs to scale as well and d high performance and because we have a lot of customers that run on sites that have intermittent connections to the internet we need to be able to support message delivery remotely as well through internet connections and the way we do this of course is that we will be providing an integrated mail server that includes smtp for message delivery and routing as well as pop and iono mailbox services now this server will work completely by itself independently but because there are a lot of folks that want to do more advanced scripting of mail delivery and routing we have the option to work with send mail for delivery or for that matter any other mail delivery agents can be configured to do the mail routing as well and of course like any mail server these days it includes anti-spam and the wrong message delivery capabilities that we talked about another part of our mail server is that it's integrated with the directory so whether you're using our own directory or whether you're using ldap you can code into the directory where the users mailbox is located and what machine is on and routing can be set up for complex mail installations in that manner and finally we have something that exists today in Apple charity which will carry forward and that's our IMAP administration port which were people wanting to do additional management utilities makes it very easy to go in through I met with an administrator account and have full access to the entire meal store all the accounts and all the messages for management reporting what have you so in terms of developer opportunities well there's two two sides here one is if you have an application for instance with server-side applications say web-based email as an example make sure it runs on 10 the other is if you have a client application make sure it runs well in markets that are important to math customers a good example here is a case of 12 market where the mail users don't have ownership of a particular machine and need to move from machine to machine to access their mail on the management side of course there are a variety of management tools that can be built including account management dry mouth management of routing through send mail as well as log management or mail tracking so let's move on the two of the services that are core to us here at Apple that first one is quicktime and quicktime streaming server now quicktime streaming server hopefully mostly you've heard of this but in case you haven't it delivers live media or on demand media through QuickTime movies across the Internet to hundreds or thousands of customers so you can take an application that's broadcasting live media say a radio show or a video live video and basically have the quicktime streaming server deliver that to hundreds of customers thousands of customers now or you can take a QuickTime movie and hint it and put it up on the server and that movie can be accessed on demand and stream to customers it's completely standards-based it runs on the rtsp and RTP ietf protocols so it is the only fully standards-based streaming solution out there and in addition to being a server you can also relay other broadcasts so basically you can set up a relay of a brought a live broadcast or you can set up multiple relays to scale a very large configuration for thousands and thousands and thousands of customers each server itself is highly scalable so whether you want to support a 56k modem or a 28 8 modem or go to broadband dsl or cable or even to internet and megabits per second the server is capable of handling that and at modem speeds that can handle thousands with connections and the other thing is capable of doing this important is usually over the Internet most connections are done unicast you take a connection from the server and you send data to the client and that's a single connection a single pipe so if you have thousands of clients you have the connections but the server itself is also capable of handling multicast so if you're in an area of the internet that can handle multicast or if you're on an intranet where it's configured you have the ability to reach a lot more clients with less network bandwidth the server itself also has web administration something that we've been working on and of course if you haven't heard of it hopefully you'll want to check it out because it's fully open source some of our competitors will charge about fifty thousand dollars for a product like this but for us it's free and so you can go out and get the server you can get the source today check it out it runs on multiple platforms in addition to Mac os10 server and so this is what we think is the most expandable streaming server around not only is it open source you have full access to the source to do whatever you want but it also has a module a similar to Apache so different developers can come up and add new functions to the server without having to learn the whole source base or without having to get in each other's way and this is important for you as a developer is an opportunity because it allows you to develop new features to the server the streetly market is expanding rapidly it's very rapidly growing market there's a real opportunity to get in here and add new features but it allows you to add those new features not only is open source but also as modules which can be shipped independently of a server and you can sell those modules as binaries and sell them for money so there's an opportunity to go both ways here and certainly a good developer opportunity and building modules for the server and of course as with rest of the service there's additional options for management tools certainly in the streaming area that's an area where lot of management's needed people want to know who's watched what for how long and land and so there's a lot of opportunity for management tools there to help out with clicked on streaming server our weblogic services you may have heard a lot about if you've been going to some the session so I'm not going to cover too much here today but you know just so you know well objects is our application server that provides database content for web services at the back end of a web server it runs on a variety of platforms including antony and solaris as well as mac OS x server and in addition to providing the application server itself there's a lot of tools that allow you to develop the services as well as manage them and there's also objects that are there as well that have been pre written to help you get going quickly and you know here's a good picture that shows you sort of an example of how it all fits together if you look in the upper right-hand corner there you'll see the web browser basically going through the web server into web objects which brokers access to data whether the data is in a database or other data source or you can use the Java clients that avi demo done Monday to go into web objects directly access the same data so you know the point here is that there's tremendous opportunity and web objects and pretty much any web application you want to build on the server side you can do it without webobjects you know there are 18 sessions going on we have one every time every day so if you have heard about well objects when you're interested hopefully you've been to some of those sessions and if you haven't you should definitely check them out between now and Friday because there is a lot of opportunities or four years developers okay lastly I want to talk just briefly about network services network services are another piece of the offering that we have a macro spend server and that includes some of the lower layer networking capabilities that you use to set up a network and servers themselves and these are things like DNS which are used for setting up to make domain name servers and of course there this is unix we're leveraging bind and and we also have dhcp for address assignment as well as SLT which does a dynamic name lookup it's very similar to Apple talks dynamics name lookup but it's a protocol that was designed specifically for tcp by a standards body and all of these are available or will be available through mac OS x server and of course we have them integrated with a server offering themselves so that gives you kind of overview of where we're going with some of the internet in the file and print services and so now i want to bring up Bob Murphy who's going to talk a bit more about our desktop management and the capabilities and technology there okay thank you Greg as you mentioned my name is Bob Murphy I manage an engineering group here at Apple that's responsible for Macintosh manager and network assistant two components of the server program as well as multiple users which is a component of Mac OS 9 today we will be talking about multiple users but instead focusing on those pieces of the server product the right direction here as Greg mentioned we'll talk about desktop management services today I'll also touch briefly on the administration piece before turning it back over to Ken for him to close so I'd like to thank you for this opportunity to get a chance to tell you about the things that my team and I work on at Apple and these are some of the key pieces that were involved with Macintosh manager network assistant and net food just to kind of get an idea how many of you are familiar i've worked with macintosh manage i see a show of hands so that makes me feel good how about network assistant oh great we've got a lot of experience in net who does anybody working with a net boot installation great I'm feeling really good about this well hopefully hopefully it's not always bad as you you know sad to be but for those of you who aren't familiar with Macintosh manager just a brief overview Macintosh manager is a product that has a server component as well as a client component it really provides what we like to think of as two key pieces of functionality we thought we could talk about the virtual desktop the ability to move preferences and bookmarks can mention them some in the in the success story where we have the ability to move things around to take advantage of people going to different machines it also provides a piece of what we call a resource policy which restricts access to certain resources is defined by the administrator for example whether or not people can go to the chooser what applications they can launch so basically kind of configure the experience that the user has on their desktop machines network assistant is is not it does not require a server but it is bundled as part of the product because it is a very useful administrative tool what network assistant does there's an administrative work station as well as a client component and again we can break Network assistant down into two key pieces one we like to think of as interaction it gives you the ability to to communicate with the user either through text chatting or through sharing screens or through controlling screens to large numbers of users the second piece we like to consider is an administrative maintenance component of the product which allows the user to configure workstations similar to their own or to manage settings on remote workstations the third component net food is a tool to help make administrators life easier basically around the management of the client OS what we do is we provide a server based OS image that then remote clients can boot so we have administration management BOS in one central location what I'd like to talk about are some of the goals that we have for Macintosh manager in the future releases and I think primary primarily through our efforts of simplification what we found is there's a great increase in the number of desktop machines without a corresponding increase in administrators to manage and take care of those so anything that we can do any work that we can do to simplify that experience and make it easier for administrators to work with we want to try to accomplish McIntosh manager has been very close we had our own proprietary database we didn't give access the login screen we need to work to make it more open and more available for developers to interact with the products we need to start moving in a direction and that's a goal of ours does that take care of all the hisses guys here the top simplify the user experience just as for administrators we want to try to simplify it we also need to simplify offer the users because when we simplify for the users we went all around prepare for mac OS 10 key initiative for all of us our server components are Mac os10 they work on Mac OS 10 today what we need to do is start moving our client components to Mac OS 10 so we have some some ability to provide Macintosh manager functionality there also compatibility compatibility is also a big issue for us we are very large in education education keeps a large amount of legacy hardware therefore we have to provide support fairly far back in the clientele s specifics Greg talked about directory services so we're going to take advantage of that in the past we had our own set of users and groups we had our own passwords all the administrators had to manage we're now going to take advantage of directory services so there's a single user user and group setting and passwords administrator one central location Thanks the other piece that we've been asked for consistently is a way to plug into our to login screen and threw out on occasion very popular in that arena has been Kerberos so by taking advantage of the directory we're going to be able to take advantage of Kerberos plugins it's are written to provide an alternative method of authentication I think I've got more class than hisses now okay maybe not Mac os10 user home directory as I talked about having is I talked about preparing for mac OS 10 one of the things that we want to do is share the same storage space so that when a user is working on their eight or nine machine and they move to a mac OS 10 machine they still have access to their files they're stored in the same home directory which we see it as part of moving our transition to Mac OS 10 in addition we're also going to store application preferences in that home directory so carbon applications that are still using the old preference management methods of storing preferences in the preferences folder will get their preferences on Mac OS 10 machines so we're starting to move to that direction in terms of the virtual desktop experience the resource policy is not not happening right away as I mentioned earlier our server processes on Mac OS 10 we're now moving our admin application to carbon which will make it available on Mac OS 9 as well as Mac OS 10 and the support will still continue to support back to client 761 just just a quick overview basically you see in the center is the server the directory services are below us Mac manager will still have a server process as well as will work with the AP server process the directory database users in groups that will be stored in one central location we will still plan on storing some information or databases we weren't able to do a full transition over in the near term we do want to work on that longer term so we no longer have this proprietary set of information to Mac manager so will be will be moving that direction let's let's get off Mac manager for a while hopefully network assistant is enough controversial just a cute a few key things about network assistant I think it could really all be summed up is in the first point is support for the future and that means moving to Mac os10 again the simplicity make it easy to use as it is today and continue to advance on that to make it easy to use and again support compatibility the key detail or the key thing that we're working on for the next release is to provide a full-featured client for mac OS 10 machines so that's that's really the just of what we're working on at this point we will have a mac OS 10 admin application but we're also going to even as we move to 10 we understand there's still lots of 89 machines out there so we want to provide the administrator the ability to manage the machines no matter whether they're eight nine or ten machines so that's kind of where we're headed there we don't support 761 right now yeah would it's hard though it's really hard for that that piece so that kind of covers those three components are those two components now let's move on to net food I think net booth is really exciting it's a really cool technology I'm really excited about what's going to happen going forward but basically what it does it kind of ties to that theme that I think the Ken mentioned and Greg also is this too simplified is to make it easier for administrators to take care of things you know because you've got all these client machine and you're not getting any more administrators to take care of them so what we do is we provide a single location on a server to manage the OS this makes it protected from user modification many times they may be able to modify it during the course of their operation but with a simple reboot they're back to where they started so you have a protected OS desktop OS has become trivial and actually in addition to that some installation of software becomes trivial you installed in one place you restart your clients your installed so I think this is a real big win for administrators it is our goal to work with standard unmodified mac OS s any mac OS that is released should automatically support net booting and be installable and usable in your network and we understand the performance is important also that it must be comparable to local this so the users don't know that they're working on that boot machine versus a local boot machine some of the details some of the details of the net butene is working on they want to make it work and more robust network so can it's going to interact with standard dhcp servers great it'll go the other the other neat thing is supporting multiple boot images per server [Applause] okay this is exciting especially in those situations where you have different languages a machine may be used in a multilingual setting you want to provide the ability to boot in French or German or Spanish or Japanese or any language that you that you would like in addition you can provide a modified OS it doesn't need to be language difference it could be other things installed that you want to make available to the user okay and it's going to be highly scalable we're moving to make it more scalable the clients will auto sense which server has the least activity and then it will go netboot from that machine I guess the key implication we can think of for developers around that boot is you know you don't have a persistent OS as soon as it's rebooted it's gone if Mac managers involved you can still manage preferences and some of the system settings but you have to presume that are assuming that there is a non-persistent mac OS simple diagram again you see now with the addition of multiple servers multiple that multiple netboot servers you can see in the bottom you have different subnets net1 a to the clients will interact and go ahead and just boot right off whatever server has the most availability so I think that that's irrelevant I think that's a real real opportunity so I just want to touch briefly on administration the final block in our diagram before I turn it over to can from an administration perspective the goals I think the goals here again are similar its simplicity to make it easy to use to make it easy for the administrator to get in and do the work that they need to do and get out so simplicity one of the goals for that is to move to one application to not have to go look around for a whole bunch of applications we want to try to meet at to one central place remote or local we understand that everybody's mobile right so we need to be able to provide administration anywhere on the Internet that's critical also and then the final point very easy to use just echoes that theme once again some of the details it will be a client-server architecture the administrative application and what this provides is the second bullet there the admin server will update clients as needed for example if the server that you're trying to maintain has the component that you don't have the administrative piece for it'll automatically provide that for you so you can go maintain that feature first bullet it'll be carbon also so Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 10 as well as aqua will be ocwen affair interface will support an SL and SLP for locating servers as well as being able to administer multiple servers and then the final piece that we're trying to focus on is being able to do some limited set of web administration so with that I think I've completed the section and I'd like to turn it back over to Ken to close thank you so to amplify a couple of points that Bob made in particular how many people in the audience produce client-side applications that fit into the server environment Wow very few well for the one hand that I saw him up no we want to make sure that everybody takes out of this session and understanding that the Macintosh is a platform is a combination of an incredibly great desktop platform the the Mac the Mac OS operating system plus comprehensive set of server solutions we want to make sure that we're able to run our legacy of existing applications exciting new applications all across network that span different types of protocols different sorts of topologies different collection of services and what we're presenting today is a roadmap and an approach to our strategy to the server obviously building upon all of the strengths all of the benefits of Mac OS 10 and layering on top of that the consistency of directory access through a number of comprehensive services with a simplified unified administration model there's some subtleties to the presentation today one is that we've been listening very very carefully to the needs of customers in the education space both k12 and higher education are incredibly important markets for us and we understand the complexities and the difficulties of integrating technology and an invite especially in k-12 we're literally computers never get replaced you add new technology and the applications that k-12 educators rely on our at times 56 years old not necessarily programmed to the inside McIntosh pristine guidelines and in this environment we're trying to plow forward and we're trying to move the technology up to a new level to enable new types of capabilities we're very much active in listening to the needs of of those communities and making our products really really great you've heard that there's a variety of opportunities for developers in this server environment with the mac of 10 server product certainly there's a wealth of plugins a directory service is central it's essential to the the integration the interoperability of this technology and we're going to focus on a small set is ample opportunity for a variety a coupler mentioned here the whole notion of management and control of the server environment people need to be able to understand how the technology is being used from a scalability perspective maybe you start with a small number of servers are you able to actually analyze how the technology is being used so you can most efficiently plan your next year investments in do focus on more bandwidth or do you need more scalability for the file server so there's huge opportunities for producing administration console utilities log analysis how the server has been used from his historical perspective a variety of services for guaranteeing always on availability of the server from a auto restart and remote management perspective backup and restore is always an interesting an important opportunity the needs backup scale from you know very very large enterprise grade environments where large customers have investments in a backup technology all the way down to the much smaller you know single user single administrator tape driver peripheral model so there's a wealth of opportunities that in there as well on the web and application space certainly Apache is just in an incredible web server technology the number of plugins that turn Apache into an unbelievably powerful platform is open for anybody to entertain an exercise with the Mac os10 server product and we can't say webobjects loudly enough more often this is some of the greatest application server technology that the world has ever seen and it creates some incredible opportunities for adding value add application services on top of this very powerful platform terms of additions and add-ons to the server from a hardware perspective obviously raid solutions enable the greater degree of scalability and performance for the disk subsystem large storage arrays etc power management are all examples of how the server product can be enhanced beyond the confines of our desktop a hardware design and in the creative professional markets certainly there's incredible opportunities for very sophisticated higher-end print management and workflow solutions the print industry is obviously being transformed by the greater flexibilities and efficiencies that the Internet has enabled and the publishing workflow is one that is ripe for incredible are opportunities for adding value to the server product you