Data Source for team
Another quick question. We have an enterprise licence for a team of 5.
I'm looking for the best way to share data connection information for the systems we support, in the most cost effective solution.
I have an SQL server in Azure which I put the connection information into. Works fine until I connect over VPN to the customers network. Then we loose the data connection. I guess it's firewall related but we are not able to request they make changes for us.
What's the best way of structuring this so that we all use the same copy of the data connections, we limit a couple of people to just view and use the connections, and they key people can update them, and it's available all the time. We are using version 8.0, does the offline data source in version 9 work around this issue, and does it copy offline chances back to the server once the connection is restored?
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Version 8 does not have the read/write offline mode, it was introduced in v9. It would manage your scenario perfectly.
For managing the offline mode of the data source automatically, the settings are in the VPN tab of your sessions, in the inner "advanced" tab (not the one for the session, but the small one for the VPN.). You can check both " go offline on connection" and "go online on disconnection"
I wanted to include a link to our online help, but I realized that this isn't documented. I'll look into it.
Maurice
Thanks for the reply Maurice. I've just purchased the licences for our team.
I'd like to get my head around the configuration. We already have about 70 connections in the tool but stored locally on each team members PC. Of course the information is getting very out of sync.
I'd like to set up the correct viewer / editor permissions for the data source, and I'd like to centralise the data source so we can access it when in the offline mode (connected to the corp vpn). It would also be good to understand if we can store any common powershell scripts in a central location as well.
Any guides you could point me to on this would be really helpful.
Hi
We tend to centralize everything in the online help, so here are links of interest to you
http://help.remotedesktopmanager.com/bestpractices_security.htm
the whole of the administration section starting at
http://help.remotedesktopmanager.com/administration_datasourcesettings.htm
For offline access
http://help.remotedesktopmanager.com/datasource_offline.htm
As for powershell scripts, they have their own entry type, either for local or remote execution.
http://help.remotedesktopmanager.com/sessions_powershell.htm
http://help.remotedesktopmanager.com/macroscripttools_powershellremote.htm
Maurice