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Opening in Local Office from the Web client
06/29/2021 - The MyWorkDrive Web client supports editing in local office for desktop users on Windows and macOS. This permits users to edit documents accessed via the web client from locally installed office applications. This is a different feature from editing in Office Online (Office 365) and is available whether Office 365 / Office Online is enabled […]"
Office Online Editing Comparison
06/25/2021 - There are a number of ways you can offer Online Office Document Editing to users connected to MyWorkDrive. Currently we support editing in Office Online through Office 365 and Office Online Local Server for browser based Online editing. We also support editing documents through the browser in locally installed Office. We are developing several new […]"
Office Online Server Setup
06/24/2021 - Customers who wish to run thier own local Office Online server (the local equivelent to Office 365) can use these guides to assist in the setup of their servers. Office Online server can be used in conjuction with MyWorkDrive to provide secure web editing of office documents on local storage without the need to migrate […]"
Known issues and Best practices for file caching appliances - Nasuni, Synology, Morro Data, etc
06/16/2021 - We have a number of clients running MyWorkDrive as the remote access Web client and map drive for files stored with remote caching appliances/tools from companies like Nasuni, Synology and Morro Data. With these, the files are stored in the cloud and pulled down locally to the on premise device when accessed by the user. […]"
SSO Setup Overview
04/14/2021 - MyWorkDrive supports SSO Logins via ADFS and SAML for all clients and features in MyWorkDrive, including the Cloud Web Connector. Before you start: Ensure the MyWorkDrive server is trusted for delegation as per our Delegation Article Prerequisites Ensure users have a upn suffix applied for domain name to match Azure AD Login name so they […]"
MyWorkDrive Active Directory Trust Support
03/09/2021 - The information and guidance in this article is only applicable when using MyWorkDrive on an Active Directory domain joined server with Active Directory for the user data. It is not applicable when installing MyWorkDrive in a directory-less environment with Entra ID identity for the user database. MyWorkDrive supports placement in an Active Directory Trust Resource […]"
Client Branding settings
02/03/2021 - There are basically five elements to branding. All of the changes are made in Admin. 1) Installation name, which is set on Settings and appears on the login screen of the Webclient. 2) Logo, which is set on the bottom of Enterprise. The logo appears appears on the login screens for all clients. The logo […]"
Access Based Enumeration
12/10/2020 - Access-based enumeration (ABE) displays only the files and folders from a Windows file share which a user has permissions to access. If a user does not have Read (or equivalent) NTFS permissions for a folder, Windows hides the folder from the user’s view. This feature is active only when viewing files and folders in a […]"
File Share Testing Tool
10/16/2020 - ContentsFile Share Testing ToolRSAT Tools ErrorValidating with Effective Access File Share Testing Tool MyWorkDrive has a built in testing tool to let you test whether a user has access to a share or file. The tool will report success or failure and give details to guide in resolving the issue. This will show if any […]"
Granular Permission settings on Shares
10/02/2020 - ContentsSMB with Active Directory IdentityCommon QuestionsSharePoint, OneDriveWith Entra ID Auth and Azure Storage“All Users” Groups SMB with Active Directory Identity MyWorkDrive Server Version 6 introduced granular permissions on shares, to provide additional flexibility to administrators to manage how users access shared files and documents. It provides settings for Clients, Files/Documents (via DLP), and Invited Guest […]"