Question about Lion Server usage...

Hi there!
I'm new to Lion Server (at most, I had used the SL sharing preferences, but never the Server Admin or any of those tools...)
I'm having some troubles understanding Lion Server. First of all... where are all the files stored?? I know the web server files are stored at /Library/Server/Web... but what about all mails, wikis, and those files?
That is one question... the other one is... while fiddling with the wiki server I noticed that when I created a user, it's profile page is saved on the wiki and when I delete that user, the wiki document is still there! Wasn't it supposed to be deleted as I deleted the user itself?
I can't seem to find a manual or something, only for SL Server not Lion.
Can someone please help me out?
Thanks!
- Eduardo

Eduardo
At the moment there is very little for Lion Server. What little there is, is here:
http://www.apple.com/uk/support/lionserver/
and here:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/lion_server_upgrading_migrating.pdf
The administration manuals take some time to become available which is usually the case when Apple release a new version of the Server Version. However most of what's there does not change that much and generally the 10.6 Administration Manuals will contain most of what will eventually become the 10.7 Administration Manuals. Again this has always been the case going back to at least 10.3 Server. Technologies introduced in 10.5 Server such as CalDAV, Wiki and Blog etc did not change that much in 10.6. Apple also moved away from Cyrus as one of the Mail MDAs to Dovecot. But again the locations of where these were stored did not change. Going back to CalDAV and CardDAV these now appear to be amalgamated into one store.
As ever with any version of the Server - regardless of platform or age - it's a good idea to have plenty of backups and to experiment first with a test/lab environment before rolling it out to a full production server.
HTH?
Tony

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I don't expect anyone to answer here as nobody here answers to my questions at all which just increases my Apple frust I developed during the last weeks and months.
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