In this movie, we will briefly look at FileMaker Server's history and how it's features evolved over time. FileMaker Server was first introduced in 1994 primarily to boost performance when sharing files with multiple users. And that was at a time when FileMaker Pro 2.1 was out. Since then there have been many quantum leaps to take us where we are now. Shortly after the initial release FileMaker Server added support for the IPX Network Protocol which made it much easier to use on Windows. When FileMaker Pro became relational with version 3 we were also given a New Version FileMaker Server and this time it supported the much faster TCP Network Protocol. And we could still host 100 files to 100 users. Version 4 of FileMaker Pro added ODBC and web support but all of that connectivity still had to go through the clients. FileMaker Server did not change. The next quantum leap came in 1999 when FileMaker Pro and Server 5 were introduced. This time around the user count went up to 250 and 125 files and for the first time we could administer FileMaker Server remotely. It was around this time that Apple launched OS X. So FileMaker Server was raised to accommodate this with version 5.5. That was also the only version of FileMaker Server to run on Linux. New features introduced included the ability to update Plug-ins by downloading them from the server. Domain authentication for users and the ability for the developers to make Schema changes when the file was hosted. Nothing changed with FileMaker Server when FileMaker Pro 6 was introduced. The biggest quantum leap however came in 2004 when the FileMaker 7 product family was released. This included a brand new FileMaker Server and for the first time all web and ODBC traffic went directly to the server instead of through a clients. The Server was now also able to perform some tasks itself. It had a brand New Admin Tool that looked the same on both Mac and Windows. The server now supported encryption of data traffic between FileMaker Pro and the Server and also a totally new web publishing technology was introduced with XML and XSLT. The maximum user count remained at 250 and the file count at 125. That file count became pretty much a moot point since each FileMaker file could now contain up to a million tables. FileMaker Server 8 mainly improved performance and provided support for FileMaker Pro 8 and 8.5 features. But FileMaker 9 however delivered more power with Server-side Scripts, a New Admin Console that let us upload files directly to FileMaker Server. And the standard web publishing and XML capabilities moved from FileMaker Server Advanced to the cheaper regular FileMaker Server. FileMaker Server 10 and 11 came with even more Server-side processing capabilities. It now added import and exports and E-mail to it's Server-side Scripts. It came with your Backup Settings, supported groups of admin users with limited admin power. The maximum user count went up to 1,000 in FileMaker Server Advanced 10 and to unlimited in FileMaker Server Advanced 11. Around mid 2010 we also were introduced to a completely New FileMaker Go which is a totally new FileMaker Server Clients and all of a sudden WAN performance became a bigger issue than it ever has been. And now we have FileMaker Server 12 with many new features. Most of them targeted at that better performance and stability. WAN performance especially has been overhauled with an eye towards a better performance through 3G with FileMaker Go on the iPhone and iPad. But also the Web Publishing Engine has been given an overhaul. And there is more important improvements such as 64-bit support, Streaming of Container Data and the brand new Progressive Backups. All of which we will cover in the following movies.
| Course: | FileMaker Server 12 |
| Author: | Wim Decorte |
| SKU: | 34324 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-047-3 |
| Release Date: | 2012-06-22 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 84 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |