Server Guides

Data Leak Prevention

04/22/2018 - MyWorkDrive Enterprise licensees have the option of enabling our data leak prevention feature to assist them in their compliance requirements. Data leak prevention (DLP) in MyWorkDrive additionally allows the system administrator to prevent downloading and public sharing of files on a Global, Share, Group or User basis. Files can still be edited or viewed online […]"

Delegation Setup for ADFS/SAML, File and DFS Servers in Active Directory

04/22/2018 - The instructions in this article are only applicable to MyWorkDrive installations using Active Directory for user identity and SMB File shares. Delegation is not required when using Entra ID as the user directory.     ContentsOverviewTypes of DelegationEnable via MyWorkDriveConstrained DelegationSetting Constrained Delegation via ADUC UI Active Directory Users and ComputersWith PowershellTestingResource Based Kerberos Constrained […]"

DUO Two Factor Authentication

04/22/2018 - The instructions in this article are only applicable to MyWorkDrive installations using Active Directory for user identity. Duo MFA is only supported when using Active Directory. When using Entra ID for user directory or with a SAML SSO, please use the multi factor authentication options in Azure/Entra or your Identity Provider. Two Factor Authentication (2FA) […]"

Firewall Settings for MyWorkDrive Server

04/22/2018 - ContentsOverviewOutgoing firewall requirementsServer Version 5.4 and higher relay requirements:Server Version 5.3 and below relay requirements: AntivirusTroubleshooting Office 365 and Cloud Connector firewall issuesClusteringDMZ / LAN Ports and connectionsLAN Ports RequiredHigh Number Dynamic Port Range9389 ADWSSecure LDAP LDAPS 636 and 3269 Overview Administrators my wish to lock down the MyWorkDrive Server client site to be accessible from […]"

HTTP to HTTPS Redirect Webclient Site

04/22/2018 - Overview For customers who are not using *.myworkdrive.net as their production MyWorkDrive Web URL, you may wish to redirect http to https. To complete this task you must have your own company SSL Certificate bound to the Webclient site and have ports 80 and 443 open on your firewall inbound to the MyWorkDrive server. […]"

MyWorkDrive Cloud Virtual Machine Setup and Evaluation Guide

04/22/2018 - Overview The Virtual Machine image of MyWorkDrive server in Azure and AWS is a great way for companies to evaluate the MyWorkDrive service or to permanently run their file servers in the cloud. The MyWorkDrive virtual machine image creates a server that can be joined to an existing Windows Active Directory Domain or use Entra […]"

MyWorkDrive Technical Overview

04/22/2018 - Information Architecture Overview: The MyWorkDrive product architecture works by taking existing file shares and making them accessible over https as an IIS Website. The MyWorkDrive software is installed either directly on the Windows File Server (assuming it’s free of other IIS roles) or on another Windows domain member server on the same LAN. MyWorkDrive recognizes the […]"

Office Online Editing

04/22/2018 - Overview MyWorkDrive Server supports online editing of documents in the browser in Office 365 Online*, Only Office and Local Office Online Servers. MyWorkDrive allows users to edit Office Documents in a browser while saving changes back automatically to on-premise file servers. Comparison Grid A comparison grid of the Office file online editing options is available […]"

Previous Versions Setup Guide

04/22/2018 - MyWorkDrive connects to Windows Volume Shadow Copy Snapshots (VSS) services to enable previous versions restores from our Web Client. When enabled users can right mouse click and restore previous versions of files contained in Volume Shadow Copy Snapshots. View the video here:     Requirements: 1. Enterprise License Required 2. Each file server must […]"

Redirecting DNS to Internal when clients are on the same LAN as the MyWorkDrive server

04/22/2018 - ContentsConnecting Directly to a Local Share While in the OfficeInternal DNS with MyWorkDriveConnecting directly via SMB Connecting Directly to a Local Share While in the Office In a situation in which your MyWorkDrive environment is on-premises, and your users are on site, and you are using a direct connection or local proxy (ie, not using […]"