Of all the improvements that Snow Leopard offers corporate users, native Exchange compatibility is by far the most obvious. And unlike configuring Microsoft’s own Entourage, a long-standing complaint among corporate IT staff, how one configures Exchange accounts in Snow Leopard is fairly obvious as well. That said, it’s also the single most requested topic we’ve received since Snow Leopard was first announced, and the subject of our very first 10.6 article.

File permissions are something systems administrators deal with every day. Usually when somebody can’t read something on the server, and they need you to figure out why. In multi-user environments, however, what people can’t read is often as important as what they can, and by default the Mac OS X Finder may allow people to read far more than your users expect.

Apple’s Server Admin tool is the heart of the OS X Server experience, allowing you to do observe and administer servers from any location with a laptop and an internet connection. There are times, though, when you don’t even have that available. If you have an iPhone, you can still check in on the operation of essential systems with Harlekins’ Server Admin Remote.