My favourite Single Signon solution (Atlassian Crowd) now seems to have support for OsX server - I now need to test this:

Re: Crowd Support with Open Directory on Mac OS X Server.
Posted: May 2, 2008 2:06 AM in response to: Jason
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Hi Jason,

We didn't get Open Directory support implemented for 1.3.

For 1.4, we'll have Read-Only support for LDAP directories that use the RFC2307/POSIX schema. This should enable support for Open Directory Server, though I haven't specifically tested it yet

Note: you won't be able to create users from Crowd - we won't have the ability to create the necessary uidNumber, gidNumber, and home directory attributes. We plan on adding that capability in the medium-term.

1.4 will be out within the next fortnight.

Regards,
Dave.

Setting up Atlasssian Confluence (or indeed any Atlassian product) running under OsX Server 10.5 is not covered in any great detail in their installation documentation.

After downloading the WAR version of Confluence, this will automatically be expanded into a directory something like :

move the "confluence" directory inside the expanded directory to "/Library/Tomcat/webapps", and then make a new file "/Library/Tomcat/conf/confluence.xml" with the following content :

<Context path="/confluence" docBase="/Library/Tomcat/webapps/confluence" debug="0" reloadable="true"/>

In the Tomcat Manager "/Confluence" should now have popped up as a application, even though you now have to set up a base directory for Confluence somewhere...

I have been looking for a tool to aggregate directory information from multiple directories to do central email directories and single logons. This is one I have decided to try out :

Penrose is a java-based virtual directory server. Virtual directory enables federating (aggregating) identity data from multiple heterogeneous sources like directory, databases, flat files, and web services - real-time - and makes it available to identity consumers via LDAP. You can check out a self-running Demo.

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Neat!

I have now set up 4 iPhones to work with the companys Exchange server, and strangely enough it worked immediately on 2 of them, but on the other 2 I had problems with recognition of the security certificates.

It looks like Exchange uses more than one certificate, and as the iPhone during setup tries a number of different ports and communications protocols to handshake with the Exchange server, these kind of problems may occur.