Address Book and Calendar Server
Address Book Server allows you to share your contacts and calendar events with others connected to your network or over the Internet. Each participant synchronizes their contacts with the server hosted on your own system. Address Book Server supports the full Address Book and iCal schema. The server also provides a friendly Web interface and an iPhone client which let you access your contact details remotely.
| Tags | Communications Email Address Book contacts Calendar synchronization Sharing Events tasks vCard LDIF |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Shareware |
| Operating Systems | Mac OS X |
| Implementation | Objective C Java C++ |
Recent releases
- 30 Jun 2009 21:00
Changes: Support for subgroups in the address book has been added. To create a subgroup, simply drag one group into another. When a group containing other groups is shared via Address Book Server, all contained groups are also shared, even though they are not explicitly selected. It is now possible to overwrite the local records of Address Book, iCal, iSync, and MobileMe with those held on the sever.
- 11 Jun 2009 00:15
Changes: The report section now contains details about any deleted records including when they were deleted, and from which client the deletion originated. You can also restore deleted records, either individually or for an entire sync session. There is a Spanish translation of the System Preference client component. Several of the interim builds did not function correctly on Tiger. This has also been addressed. There are other bugfixes and enhancements.
- 22 May 2009 07:04
Changes: A new Automatic sync mode is now available, which performs a “Complete” Sync every tenth time and otherwise performs a “Changes” sync. Several minor issues have been resolved on the Web interface. The server side ground work has been laid down to support updates to contact details directly from ABCMobile.
- 14 May 2009 07:29
Changes: The bonjour discovery mechanism has been updated to also return the fully qualified DNS name (FQDN) or the IP address, depending if name resolution is available and configured. 10.4 users reported issues setting the automatic sync schedule using System Preferences. This issue has been resolved.
- 02 May 2009 02:24
Changes: The Web interface has been updated to support deleting of calendars direction on the server. System Preferences can now be used to set the number of minutes between synchronization sessions. The number of contacts in each group on the server is shown in System Preferences on the client. There is an updated Manual and Quick Start Guide covering usability issues that have been identified and documented. Work-arounds are described in both the Quick Start Guide and the manual.
