<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass">Apple finally killed macOS Server. I’d appreciate opinions about options for replacement functionality:</div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass"><br class=""></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass"><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">I use Profile Manager for basic MDM of the pile of household devices: managed network accounts, cert installation, policy constraints. Is there a comparably lightweight MDM anyone could recommend, without getting into the full strength and cost of something like JAMF? Could all this be done for over a dozen devices or so reasonably using the Apple Configurator app?</li><li class="">I use macOS Server to mange server certificate creation/expiration/reinstallation into the keychain. I could simply fall back to doing everything by hand using openssl with my own CA, then trying to remember to follow up with cert expiration, but what a PITA. Can anyone recommend a decent tool that automates the basic functionality of openssl/PKI? I anticipate just scripting my own openssl configuration, but it would be nice if this were automated and simplified like macOS Server did.</li><li class="">Has anyone heard what will happen to the adaptive firewall afctl? Does it die with macOS Server?</li><li class="">Can someone point to a preferred macOS-friendly Apache configuration that locks down the native macOS webserver with TLS?</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FWIW, MacPorts has several former macOS Server-based ports that perform as well or better than their macOS Server originals:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">mail-server</div><div class="">calendar-contacts-server</div><div class="">dns-server</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass"><b class="">End of the road: Apple is killing macOS Server, the place where Mac OS X began | Ars Technica</b></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass"><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="border-left-style: none; color: inherit; padding: inherit; margin: inherit;"><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/apple-discontinues-macos-server-after-years-of-benign-neglect/" class="">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/apple-discontinues-macos-server-after-years-of-benign-neglect/</a></blockquote></div></body></html>