Services in Snow Leopard

Hi.
I'm sorry, I know there are many discussions, like this online...
I need to put a script that I wrote among Snow Leopard services..I mean those that I can activate in the "Keyboard and Shortcuts" panel.
I tried to save my script as a service using Automator, but it is now displayed in the "Services" menu of every Application! I wanted it to show up only when Finder is active. How can I do that?
Thanks.

I don't understand - when you take some file that already exist on the hard disk and modify it, your script is acting on a file. If the "Service receives selected _files or folders_ in Finder", then your service will be available in the contextual *Services Menu* when you right-click on files or folders, and those selected items will be passed to your workflow.
It sounds like you may not want a service - you can make a script available when the Finder is active by using the *Script Menu* (AppleScript Editor > Preferences > General) and placing your script (or an alias) it in the ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Finder folder. You can't use a keyboard shortcut with the Script Menu though, so you might take a look at FastScripts, which uses the same script locations but adds keyboard shortcuts.
You can also drag a script application onto the Finder's toolbar.

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Just started evaluating SBS 2011. I have been setting up SBS servers since SBS 2000 and have many many years using this however licensing has always bugged me with SBS server and in 2011 the story is no different. It is an 'if, and + but' licensing scheme as I like to refer to it and I have seen instances where volume license professionals and SBS consultants have got this wrong. In a recent case i was proved to be correct in my licensing setup at a client site and the license audit proved wrong - thats how confusing it is. However my clients heads where left spinning with it all and the hours it took to a lot of hours to resolve.
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Firebird74 wrote:
Compared to the Mac Server license model then you would wonder why people tolerate this at all. What does SBS Server have over Snow Leopard Server other than Exchange and how does Mail services in Snow Leopard compare?
"Other than Exchange" is huge. Not that I'm a huge fan of Exchange (it has it's own issues - no software is perfect), but especially with the Mac having a full Outlook client, having in-house Exchange can be VERY nice. Exchange 2010 Outlook Web Access (OWA) is also increadibly nice and feature rich. You almost don't even need Outlook anymore. Indeed, the typical non-power user would probably be just as happy with OWA as full Outlook. The only other system with as feature rich webmail would be Lotus Domino (and if you want to debate Lotus Note/Domino I will be more than happy to - not in this thread tho).
Here's why I continue to deploy SBS - and now, especially SBS 2011, to the non-profits I support. First of all, it's cheap for non-profits. Microsoft has a very gracious charity licensing program. Second, SBS "just works". I often wonder how the SBS division in Microsoft survives since they actually seem to be customer focused They know who their customers are and their product is targeted squarely at that market. I have been using SBS since the SBS 2000 days, and the progress the product has made over the last decade is simply astonishing.
Once you get past the initial server install and the hour and a half of updates and reboots (typical Microsoft product!) you have an almost 90% functioning and integrated Windows network with a full directory, feature rich email, powerful group calendaring, full remote access for email, collaboration, files and remote access to your office computers, collaboration through sharepoint, file sharing, bare-metal restore capable incremental backup - the list goes on. The amount of stuff packed into SBS is truely astonishing.
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Having said that, I'm still going to work with a friend who owns a small business to upgrade his SBS 2003 box to 2011. He has a critical business application that runs on SQL server so he's stuck there, and other applications like QuickBooks only work with Windows servers. That and they are heavy, heavy users of email and group calendaring. As much as I like Mail and iCal, even with some of the third party add-ons to iCal it just can't stand up to what you get in true enterprise-class systems.
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I don't think it has to stay this way forever, but for right now MS has a better solution for small businesses.
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Does your Internet connection have a static IP address? If not you will need to use a service like DynDNS.org and if you want to use it with your own purchased domain name you will need to use the paid for level of service.
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