Alternative to a shared drive
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Soldato
Do you not use office ? Just use onedrive which is part of office 365.
If it's for shift planning and your org. already uses Office 365 in other areas, then look at deploying https://staffhub.ms
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Owncloud? Pydio? Dropbox? OneDrive? Google Drive? Box?
Soldato
EDIT:- Disregard - it wouldn't be cheap
What about a Remote Desktop server? My company hosts remote desktop servers that users login to to access a company shared drive - works exacly like having a server in your office would in terms of Active Directory / file access permissions etc.
You could look into setting up something similar on Azure or AWS?
Nate
What about a Remote Desktop server? My company hosts remote desktop servers that users login to to access a company shared drive - works exacly like having a server in your office would in terms of Active Directory / file access permissions etc.
You could look into setting up something similar on Azure or AWS?
Nate
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As already mentioned. Business case time!
Just find a piece of software and look at the costs yadda yadda yadda - I think you need to show it has use outside of shift rotas though, because there's no real cost saving to be had there
Just find a piece of software and look at the costs yadda yadda yadda - I think you need to show it has use outside of shift rotas though, because there's no real cost saving to be had there
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Just wait until the GDPR come in next year...... **** just got real.
And no... Brexit won't save you.
Nate
https://www.sync.com/business/
might be worth looking at, its pretty cheap $5pm per user for business.
might be worth looking at, its pretty cheap $5pm per user for business.
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Why not just use a NAS box with file sharing capabilities such as a Synology?
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Because you don't want to be responsible for backups, security and any potential breaches.
This is what we use that meets our security requirements. https://tresorit.com/
However, this is managed by a senior director. Not the office assistant.
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Damn. We've just moved from DropBox to an on-site file-server type setup. Wish I had known about this before!
I used to use a company for called Egnyte for cloud storage/backups.
They have an app for the Netgear readynas as well as other NAS/Windows/MAC/Android devices which real times syncs any changes to an online copy, the permissions are handled per account and the permissions sync with any devices it is added to also. I don't remember it being hugely expensive per month, but haven't used it for a while i believe you have a basic hosting plan with a certain amount of space and adding new users incurs a cost so we normally did the accounts by groups.
It did work rather well, would access the data locally through the nas for fast transfer then could also access it at home/about through the web.
Can also map a webdav shared drive direct to online, but transfer may be slow if large files.
May not fit the bill, but may be worth a look.
They have an app for the Netgear readynas as well as other NAS/Windows/MAC/Android devices which real times syncs any changes to an online copy, the permissions are handled per account and the permissions sync with any devices it is added to also. I don't remember it being hugely expensive per month, but haven't used it for a while i believe you have a basic hosting plan with a certain amount of space and adding new users incurs a cost so we normally did the accounts by groups.
It did work rather well, would access the data locally through the nas for fast transfer then could also access it at home/about through the web.
Can also map a webdav shared drive direct to online, but transfer may be slow if large files.
May not fit the bill, but may be worth a look.
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I had a shared drive once, never again it was a nightmare when I wanted to get my car out the garage and my neighbor left theirs on the drive 