Better computer for brownfield situation
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@IRJ said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
Moving everything to OneDrive would essentially meet all your goals
I'd like to get this back on topic.
In talking to the client I have the following information:
A generic user logs into the PC. They want this generic user to have access to the OneDrive files mostly (if not exclusively) in a read-only mode. These removes the need to track individual access for the most part. They don't care who's reading the information (not worth the hassle to gain this information)
Additionally - they would like a Policies and Procedures manual online - something that basically starts from a table of contents with links to whatever. This needs to be brain dead easy to update and add new pages onto. If editing the TOC is equally braindead simple, that's a huge bonus.
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While a few computers more or less have a single user on them, that is not the case for most computers in the office.
Everyone today use Outlook on the web to access email - and people are constantly logging each other out of email so they can log themselves in.Using OD4B definitely becomes more challenging in this setup.
For clarification sake - even though they wanted some files, etc, to be private - they've previously never had a solution for this - except for saving things inside email - i.e. they had files stored on nearly every computer separately - where ever the task for that file was accomplished - that's where the file was stored (yep, no backups).
I'm trying to come up with a solution that will provide them a little bit of security - for the files in question, while not completely clamping them down on security. (amazon password is literally written on a post-it on the wall).
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@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
Additionally - they would like a Policies and Procedures manual online - something that basically starts from a table of contents with links to whatever. This needs to be brain dead easy to update and add new pages onto. If editing the TOC is equally braindead simple, that's a huge bonus.
Check out confluence for this. Very affordable for a small team
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@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
A generic user logs into the PC. They want this generic user to have access to the OneDrive files mostly (if not exclusively) in a read-only mode. These removes the need to track individual access for the most part. They don't care who's reading the information (not worth the hassle to gain this information)
I would probably use SharePoint online for this
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@IRJ said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
confluence
Damn, they have 15 users, to large for free.
I know Scott has talked about using SharePoint for something like this in the past. Or using a Wiki...
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@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
@IRJ said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
confluence
Damn, they have 15 users, to large for free.
I know Scott has talked about using SharePoint for something like this in the past. Or using a Wiki...
How about Bookstack?
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@black3dynamite said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
@IRJ said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
confluence
Damn, they have 15 users, to large for free.
I know Scott has talked about using SharePoint for something like this in the past. Or using a Wiki...
How about Bookstack?
https://www.bookstackapp.com/It works well if you design it right. But there is no ToC page. That would have to be separately maintained. But again if designed right you may not need a ToC.
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@JaredBusch said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
@black3dynamite said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
@IRJ said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
confluence
Damn, they have 15 users, to large for free.
I know Scott has talked about using SharePoint for something like this in the past. Or using a Wiki...
How about Bookstack?
https://www.bookstackapp.com/It works well if you design it right. But there is no ToC page. That would have to be separately maintained. But again if designed right you may not need a ToC.
OK - there's an idea... I'll take a look.
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This is interesting - I wonder if it works with the included O365 version, or if you must pay for AAD p1 or p2?
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@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
@JaredBusch said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
@black3dynamite said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
@IRJ said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
confluence
Damn, they have 15 users, to large for free.
I know Scott has talked about using SharePoint for something like this in the past. Or using a Wiki...
How about Bookstack?
https://www.bookstackapp.com/It works well if you design it right. But there is no ToC page. That would have to be separately maintained. But again if designed right you may not need a ToC.
OK - there's an idea... I'll take a look.
here are my old ass insctructions: https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/16471/install-bookstack-on-fedora-27
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@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
Additionally - they would like a Policies and Procedures manual online - something that basically starts from a table of contents with links to whatever. This needs to be brain dead easy to update and add new pages onto. If editing the TOC is equally braindead simple, that's a huge bonus.
Wiki. Doesn't really get easier. If the can't use a wiki, there's nothing that they can use.
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@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
@IRJ said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
confluence
Damn, they have 15 users, to large for free.
I know Scott has talked about using SharePoint for something like this in the past. Or using a Wiki...
All of those things are wikis.
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@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
They want this generic user to have access to the OneDrive files mostly (if not exclusively) in a read-only mode.
This is not at all how OD4B or OD was designed to work and will only cause 10x the issues it resolves. You need to make that crystal clear. That is not what OD4B is for.
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@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
Using OD4B definitely becomes more challenging in this setup.
In the same way it becomes more challenging to drive your Honda civic across the ocean.
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You can look into Azure File Shares
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-how-to-use-files-windows -
@Obsolesce said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
@Dashrender said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
They want this generic user to have access to the OneDrive files mostly (if not exclusively) in a read-only mode.
This is not at all how OD4B or OD was designed to work and will only cause 10x the issues it resolves. You need to make that crystal clear. That is not what OD4B is for.
I'm not sure any solution fits the workflow here. Do you have a suggestion?
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@Obsolesce said in Better computer for brownfield situation:
You can look into Azure File Shares
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-how-to-use-files-windowsCool thanks - I'll take a look!
It definitely seems more normal fileshare like than SP - though SP can be webdav mapped as well.Though - I'm curious where you'd see OD4B failing if the users are mainly using it as read-only?
