OS Lion Server to OS Mavericks Server Upgrade Advice Needed

a) Has anyone successfully done this on a corporate, AD bound, production, 10.7.5 Lion Server server with active Profile Manager accounts, 3rd party certificates, file sharing etc? I'd like to assess probabilities of getting this done without having to rebuild a machine and re-enroll all of my profile manager clients.
b) Can anyone provide high level steps towards achieving this goal - or - is the following general upgrade path correct?
1) Upgrade OS Lion (which is running OS Lion Server) to OS Mavericks - THEN:
2) Upgrade OS Lion Server to OS Maverics Server
c) Is anyone running OS Lion Server successfuly in a corporate or professional arena and supporting the items above in red? If so, what are some of the "gotcha's" you ran across?
Q: Why am I wanting to upgrade from OS Lion Server to OS Mavericks?
A: Just discovered that OS Lion Server Software Update Service (SUS - now "caching server?) doesn't support Mavericks clients.
Note: I do keep an updated SuperDuper image of the system/startup drive.
Thanks.

Same issue with me. I am a new mac user, actually Mac Minii server is my first mac. I am not interested inthe server aspect but rather the pure Lion as I also plan to install bootcamp with windows 7. (Sorry but I am not ready for a full pc to mac migatrion). Being the only user of the mac mini does ot make sense to have the full server installed.
Please help !!! Idiot (yours trully) proof guide will be highly appreciated. Thanks

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as photo editing. It is not my livelihood I am just a serious hobbiest.
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card in logic. That card will no be compatible with the new Mac pro and the replacement cards are over $1000 that are compatibe
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a year or shoul I just put the clumker out of its misery?

radman wrote:
Just looking for some advice do you think the SSD PCI card and ram will keep me happy with the performance to hold off upgrading for
a year or shoul I just put the clumker out of its misery?
On this page Apple compares the 2012 Mac Pro (12-core) to a 2013 Mac Pro (12-core). The new Mac Pro performs about 3x faster at rendering. You didn't say how many cores your Mac Pro has but you could expect about a 4-5x faster performance increase.
I would have some questions for you:
How much time do you spend waiting on your current Mac Pro?
How much money are you willing to spend for a 4-5x increase?
I have a 2010 Mac Pro with a 960 GB OWC Mercury Accelsior E2 PCIe SSD, program launches and computer restarts are much faster. Compressing video takes the same amount of time as it did when I booted from a hard drive. I can't read or type email any faster, iTunes plays music just as fast as it always has with a hard drive.
I would use Activity Monitor to monitor your computer's memory use while you work with FCP and Logic to see if you are maxing out your memory then adding more may be the way to go.
I use my Mac Pro for recording over-the-air TV and compressing that video into an Apple TV usable format. I've found that having a dedicated drive for capture works well. Also, when I compress the video my capture drive becomes a dedicated source drive for Compressor and I write the output file to a separate dedicated drive. This ensures I maximize data flow and keep all my cores nearly fully utilized. I tend to do the processor intensive tasks (compressing video which can take hours) at the end of the day when I know I won't be using the computer (or only doing light work on it such as email or web surfing).

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I currently use logic express on an emac G4 with 1 gig Ram and only a 40gig harddrive.
I want to upgrade to logic pro and have a bit of money spare but I was wondering which would be the most cost efficient way to do it.
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Pete,
The answer depends on what you plan to do with Logic Pro that you are not now doing with Express. (Do you really need pro?) For the basic things, Pro is not going to be much different performance-wise, and audio will use the same amount of disk space. However, if you're upgrading to use the fancier plugins, then the higher performance machine makes sense.
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Your Service Manual
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I have just bought this mac mini server, with OSX 10.8.5 and server app ver 2.0.23 pre-installed. Made the recommendede upgrades, but maveriks is not listed.
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Migration from MS Exchange 2003 to Mavericks Server

Can anyone recommend a migration path from MS Exchange 2003 to OS X Mavericks Server? The key features to be migrated and used with the new server are: email, contacts, calendar, group tasks management, file sharing.
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Reginato Gobbo wrote:
knowing the limitations, I d´like to know if there is any tool to migrate all the mailbox from Exchange Server 2007 to Mavericks Server.
I don't think you know the limitations — Exchange Server provides rather more than what Postfix and Dovecot do.
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FWIW, please do not thread-jack, it just confuses the discussions — or at least it usually just ends up confusing readers. This is a very different question from the original, and should be its own separate thread.

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After an new OS release that are always complaints about installation and configuration problems. First comers to using any new software tool provide valuable feedback we generally hope will help improve the new product. It's how things have worked since the first 6503 Apple II's and 8086 IBM PC's.
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The toolbar icon for TimeMachine doesn't "spin" when it backs up. It's not a big deal. But it's convenient to see the circle around the clock whirling so we know when TIme Machine is backing up.
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Kudos to the Maverick's developers for releasing an OS X version that's THIS CLEAN. And hugs to Apple's management for making it a free download upgrade for developers!!!
Full disclosue: I don't now and never have worked for Apple. but I do own a few shares of Apple stock that we purchased many years ago at $14.00 / share. I'm not a big shareholder. But based on my recent seamless upgrades to Mavericks and iIOS 7, I'm a happy one who's not likely to sell any time soon.
If Apple can do for ALL THEIR HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PRODUCTS what they seem to have done for OS X and iOS, they've got at least a fighting chance to recover from their losses after their stock peaked at about $700.00 /share.
Keep up the good work!
Dr. Bob Blomeyer

After an new OS release that are always complaints about installation and configuration problems. First comers to using any new software tool provide valuable feedback we generally hope will help improve the new product. It's how things have worked since the first 6503 Apple II's and 8086 IBM PC's.
I've been using and upgrading PC's since THOSE DINOSAURS! And I can't remember EVER having an OS upgrade go as smoothly as my recent upgrade from Mountain Lion Server (OS X 10.8.5 w. Server 2.2.2) to Mavericks Server 3.0.
I chose to do a clean Mavericks install on a clean partition created on a 1 TB disk that was upgraded into my trusty MacBook. I used the DiskmakerX app to create a Mavericks installation USB drive. When the screen came up with the option to import users, programs & files (took a pass on email) from the Mountain Lion Server partition, I let it run overnight to transpose everything of value into the clean Mavericks installation.
The next morning the only program that wasn't PERFECTLY installed and configured on Mavericks was Server 2.2.2. I deleted it and bought/installed Server 3.0. After Server 3.0's setup ran that only thing I had to do manually was start Postgres! My domain setting, DNS, all my web applications that were set up on Mountain Lion Server were all GOOD TO GO again on Mavericks Server!
I'm disclosing this here, publicly because it was a BIG PAIN to install and deploy all my websites using Mountain Lion's server app. To say the easy transposition into Server 3.0 was an unexpected and pleasant surprise amounts to massive understatement.
Now I'm going to describe two small anomolies I've noticed in either Mavericks or Server 3.0 that other users might want to be on the lookout for. They're not fatal. But they might be "habringers" suggesting underlying problems in either the new OS or the new Server's internals.
The toolbar icon for TimeMachine doesn't "spin" when it backs up. It's not a big deal. But it's convenient to see the circle around the clock whirling so we know when TIme Machine is backing up.
Mavericks Server isn't reporting newly upgraded apps as available under the Updates Tab of the Server's Software Updates subsystem. It might be inconsequential. But with a new OS version it never hurts to let the developers know about the "little things" that don't apparently work.
Kudos to the Maverick's developers for releasing an OS X version that's THIS CLEAN. And hugs to Apple's management for making it a free download upgrade for developers!!!
Full disclosue: I don't now and never have worked for Apple. but I do own a few shares of Apple stock that we purchased many years ago at $14.00 / share. I'm not a big shareholder. But based on my recent seamless upgrades to Mavericks and iIOS 7, I'm a happy one who's not likely to sell any time soon.
If Apple can do for ALL THEIR HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PRODUCTS what they seem to have done for OS X and iOS, they've got at least a fighting chance to recover from their losses after their stock peaked at about $700.00 /share.
Keep up the good work!
Dr. Bob Blomeyer

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