Keeping Remote Sites Up To Date/Meeting notes for 2015-07-13
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Keeping Remote Sites up to Date
What kinds of remote sites do you need to support/connect?
- Second location
- public facing location at one site
- People working remotely without having an office
What things do remote users need to do?
- File sharing: spreadsheets, word documents, PDFs
- Database use
What tools do you do to enable them?
- 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.remoteutilities.com/download/ : free for 10 clients
- AWS cloud?
- Using git for synchronization
What clouds are easy to set up?
- ownCloud on VPSes or your own servers
What is painful?
- 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
Troubleshooting mobile devices?
- Remote support viewing on smartphones? WebEx, LogMeIn
Other considerations
- 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)
ISPs
- Execulink supports vDSL now?
- Teksavvy has business offerings
- They have good support
- Yak
- Eyesurf : okay but limited
- Acanac ?