OS X Mountain Lion Server For Dummies

Setting Up Calendar Service

You use the Server app to get calendar service up and running. Depending on what you want to do with your calendar service, several configuration tasks are involved, though not necessarily in this order:

Start Calendar Server

Restrict access

Enable e-mail invitations

Enable SSL encryption

Add locations and resources

Turn on push notification

Enable web calendars

I describe how to do these tasks in the following sections.

Starting calendar service and restricting access

After getting your network ready, just a few mouse clicks get Calendar Server running:

1. In the Server app, click the calendar icon.

2. Click the big switch to the On position (see Figure 11-1).

You’re done.

Figure 11-1: The Calendar pane of the Server app.

As with other services, ...