Apple! What went wrong?

Most everyone who I am acquainted with knows I am an original Apple Fanboy, I grew up crawling on the keyboards you might say. I may not know the complete life history front to back, but I know and understand the Hardware and software better than most. Hell even better than most of Apple Care support. Which I have spent countless hours on the phone with in helping my clients. I am a zealot for something I take a lot of pride in knowing the intricate details of. Apple builds an awesome computer and a far superior Operating System to anything out there. I have nothing but hight regard for all the work they do as a company to keep clients happy.

All that said, I am probably going to do a little bitching today. I am really disappointed with the new Snow Leopard server system, Well not the whole server per-sae, but mainly some forced aspects of iCal server and the inefficiency of group calendars.

Okay, so It seems iCal Server 2 is an afterbirth of some sort. A huge step back in the time continuum, and the Calendar Server Utility is a joke that some Apple Employee is ROTFL about right now. You might consider just calling it the resource utility, because it is a glorified address book database entry system for resources and locations, which can be used by iCal. BTW put resources in the invites field. Now where those resources come into play on the wiki calendar server is beyond me.

Here is why I am ticked

You used to be able to login to a calendar for groups, it no longer works. Now you have to turn on Wiki for your server, Login to the wiki, turn on calendars for the wiki, setup a calendar, then you can subscribe to that calendar. You cannot make changes to that calendar except through the wiki portal in a browser. and you can't use the locations and resources on the wiki.

You can delegate your calendar to other users on the system, but you have to add each user individually to your account. There is now way to stop users from messing with the settings once set, and there is no way setting up many users is feasible.

Apple, if you are going to build a Calendar Server Utility, build something for admins! While you are at it, build something to administrate Mail folders as well. There used to be a great app called SirAdmin that was useful on the Cyrus Mail Server, but because of the move to dovecot, the App is useless now. No big deal if we could actually get in to delegate shared folders somehow in the GUI. I know you can do this stuff command line, but there are a lot of users who don't know the command line. They want to be able to setup shared group calendars or shared group e-mail folders, but there is now way to do this in the GUI.

Apple you have a great system, but the open source tools need a lot of help.