Address Book Server Enterprise Edition
With Address Book Server you can synchronise your Address Book with others on the same network as well as over the internet. Contacts are synchronised with your own instance of Address Book Server.
Address Book Server comes in two parts a server and a client. The server should be installed on a centrally accessible Mac. The client goes on every Mac, whose Address Book you would like to synchronise.
During synchronisation contact information is fetched from the ABS server, compared with the local content, and any changes are written back to the server. Changes made via Address Book are synchronised in real-time with the server. Other clients will be brought up-to-date during their next synchronisation. This can either be done by making a change to one of their contacts, manually via System Preferences or on a schedule.
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The enterprise edition has replaced the standard edition completely, as it offers more features then the standard edition. The standard edition is still available, however only on request basic. Read more about the features of the enterprise edition.
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Minimum Requirement (Click for details)
Current Features
- Bi-directional sync to keep your Address Books up to date.
- iSync integration to transfer contact information in the background in real time
- Address Book schema are fully supported
- Discover Address Book Server via Bonjour. Easy configuration.
- Support for off-site clients (Without Bonjour)
- Scheduled automatic synchronisation
- Internationlisation German, French, Romonian
- Recover deleted contacts
- Administration tools
Address Book Client - Native iPhone support coming soon
To cater for the increasing demand to support the iPhone, a native client is being developed. This initial release of the iPhone client (ABCMobile) will allow users to access their Address Book Server directly and browse contact details. Read more
Release - 25th August 2008
The enterprise edition has replaced the standard edition in the download package. As it offers more features then the standard edition, there is very little reason to continue support two different versions of the same product. To reduce confusion, the standard edition will be phased out. It will remain available on demand.
Support for synchronising a subset of contacts already shared on the server. Prior to this release, all contacts already shared with the server were automatically subscribed to by the client. From this release going forward it is now possible to select a subset of groups from the server.
The server discovery mechanism has been improved to find multiple server on your network. Each client is only able to synchronise with one Address Book Server at a time however.
SSL support has been added to the client to ensure the security of remote connections. Instructions for generating your own server certificate have been added to the manual.
Outstanding
If you would like to submit a suggestion on what other features you would like to see added to this product please contact us.
- Vista / XP client (Q3 2008)
- Testing, testing and did I mention testing
- Standalone server implemented in Java for cross platform
- Web interface to view / update contact details when not in the office
Potential features - Please comment
Userfriendly web access to contacts
This is now available in the Enterprise Edition.
Thunderbird and Vista Support
It is a long term goal to also support other platforms such as Linux and Vista, not only on the server side, but also on the client. This will most likely result in a Thunderbird and Vista Contacts client. However currently this is still a while off. If you are a developer and would like to get involved in this project please let us know.