Keeping Remote Sites up to Date

What kinds of remote sites do you need to support/connect?

Sharepoint site for sharing documents
- Brendan uses an older version
Syncing files between file shares
Windows Server Remote App
- Small Business Server and Essentials
Moving files to the cloud
- hosted server
Syncing with dropbox
Office 365 transitions workflow to the cloud
VPNs
- Complicated for users
- SecurePoint client makes it easier
Cisco mobility to connect (forwards all traffic via the VPN?)
- Local storage with encrypted storage
- files are stored remotely
Windows BranchCache?
Bittorrent sync, Dropbox, Syncthing
Caching servers that sync overnight
Microsoft DFS Replication (don't bother!)
- OneDrive for Business is still not working
OpenVPN over OpenWRT
Hamachi
SSH tunnelling for remote access
Remote support: SSH tunnelling, VNC, Fuse and SSHFS
ownCloud with WebDAV
- ownCloud does not do symbolic links very well (OK on synchronized clients, not on WebUI or WebDAV mounts)
WebEx (free for first three clients)
- http://www.webex.com/products/remote-support.html
http://www.remoteutilities.com/download/ : free for 10 clients
AWS cloud?
Using git for synchronization

Attaching remote files to local email
Syncing multimedia files (photos)
Downloading things from the VPN is slow
People want things to work without learning anything
Initially contact to a remote client: how do you get them setup?
- join.me, bomgar, TeamViewer, screensharing with Skype (slow)
Users do not provide enough detail
Slow connections on the remote end
ADSL connections with slow uploads
Can we stop the cloud?
Synchronizing calendars
- ownCloud WebUI does not provide all the tools to manage appointments
- What webdav clients exist for Android? acal, solcalendar don't stay synchronized
- SunRise calendar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=am.sunrise.android.calendar
- business calendar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=netgenius.bizcal
- There is an Exchange connector for Android

syncing over DSL
online collaborative systems for sharing documents
newer versions of Sharepoint allow concurrent editing of documents
confidential/sensitive information being uploaded to The Cloud (tm)
- But any computer that is online is on the Cloud
Storing medical information on the Cloud?
VPN routers?
- They have VPN servers themselves (IPSec and PPTP)
- How do they find the clients? They use a road warrior setup
German company: SoftMaker (word processor software)