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Mac IT Guy: What Lion means for businesses | Operating Systems | Working Mac | Macworld
Some really good bits from the above article:
Per-User Screen Sharing
While Mac OS X Screen Sharing or Apple Remote Desktop are cool tools, they’ve always had one limitation compared to things like Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Client: you couldn’t have multiple separate logins. That is, you couldn’t have multiple users log into one Mac, and have their own login with their own desktop, sessions, etc. at the same time. To get that on a Mac, you had to use a product like Aqua Connect’s Terminal Server, or log in with SSH and use the command line. (Yes, I know, you could also use X11. But X11’s integration with Mac OS X has always been limited and—frankly—kind of weird.)
With Mac OS X Lion, multiple separate full logins are possible. That has some interesting possibilities. Being able to set up Macs as Terminal Servers could be a great way to get more use out of Mac OS X Server. Have a custom application that people only need to use occasionally? Put it on a single server and let your users run it remotely. Have a high-end application that allows for per-user or per-server licensing? Terminal Services like this allow you to take advantage of those options in ways that the Mac OS just didn’t support before. Now, keep in mind, I’m speculating a bit here. I don’t know that this will end up being a “proper” terminal services implementation. But it is a realistic possibility.
Auto Save
When we heard about this one, everyone in my department did the happy dance. I can not tell you how many times I’ve had the following exchange: “John, [fill in the application] locked up. Will I lose all of my work?” “When was the last time you saved?” “Hours ago.” “Then you will lose the work you’ve done since then.” Auto Save and Versions are huge for businesses and IT. Yes, they’ll require more storage space. But I don’t care. I could look through every panicked call and help-desk ticket I’ve received in the last year: A massive chunk of them would not be there if we’d had this feature. From my perspective, Auto Save is a major reason to upgrade to Lion as soon as you can.
FileVault 2
Full Disk Encryption does a number of things. First, it makes your system more secure; either you have the passphrase or you have no access to the data. Second, it makes possible a Mac OS X version of the remote wipes you can do on iOS devices. If the drive is encrypted, and if you can remotely destroy the encryption key, then bang: the data is inaccessible. You can then actually erase the data at your leisure. Without that first part, it could take hours to fully wipe a large hard drive; if a thief is even slightly smart, he or she could yank out the drive well before the wipe is done. For companies that have sensitive data traveling around, built-in Full Disk Encryption is not a minor thing.
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