
Whatever the purpose, many of our newer clients come to us with an ageing and increasingly unreliable Mac Mini or Mac Pro Server. In more recent times you might be using Profile Manager as a mobile device management (MDM) tool, to configure and control large numbers of Macs, iPhones and iPads in your business. However, it might have handled user authentication with Open Directory, hosting a website or intranet, or sharing calendars and contacts. Most commonly, you probably used the macOS Server for storing and sharing files between multiple users in your company.

Your server might have been supplied with a large data storage device, such as a Western Digital, LaCie or G-Technology RAID.

If your business has been using Macs for a number of years, there is a good chance you bought an Xserve, a Mac Pro Server or a Mac Mini Server at some point in the past.
