For most of us our contacts are handled through services that keep that information in sync like iCloud or Google. For most of us this works fine and we see no need to change how we handle our contacts. When some thing works, why change it? For others there might be a need to handle their own contacts. Maybe, they work in a business that needs to keep any client contact records private. Or maybe a home user wants their kids to get used to using a contacts manager but they want to control the whole experience to keep their kids safe and so they don't clutter up their personal contacts list. There are many reasons someone might want to host their own contacts server. OS X Server includes a contacts service that allows your host your own CardDAV server and even has the ability to push changes to all your devices and includes a directory contacts list. In this screencast tutorial I cover how to set up the contacts service in OS X Server. I go over each of the settings and show how they work on your client devices.
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