Podcast Producer without OS X Server?

Is it possible to use the podcast producer application without access to a Mac OS X Server?
Thanks in Advance,
cxu

Thanks for your reply.
When you say management tools - do you mean the GUI stuff. Seems terrible to have to do command line configuration when Apple have written a decent gui for it??
So, is there a decent GUI I can use, or is it at all possible to get Apples GUI on the client??
Thanks
Ben.

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