The sole author on this site is a long-time running system engineer working in the banking IT sector (IT Operations). Passionate about Mac, NAS/SAN, virtualization, and Docker environments.
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💡UPDATE: Added Secure SignIn reference under "Hardening your user account" heading. Here we are at the end of this 101 series. To wrap this up, this article will focus on security and secure access in general. You will see what would be best to do in specific cases
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So far we have installed DSM (Synology OS) on the NAS, configured user(s) and groups, as well as made some folders where we can place some content. Now the time has come to install some apps and services to make the best use of your NAS. Back in the
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The most important part for most NAS users is the use of shared folders. As the name suggests shared folder will allow you to organize your data in meaningful categories that you will be able to tweak with encryption, give or deny users permissions, quotas, and more. Most functions on
Today is January 28th, 2021 and it is Data Privacy Day (or Data Protection Day)! It was first initiated in 2007 as the European Data Protection Day, which was later on known as Data Privacy Day. In any case, it is an international event that occurs every year on January
Nowadays this might not be a question many people would ask themselves, but with the increased problems with privacy, security, cheaper hardware, more open source, and free software, it would be worth at least looking at the possibility of hosting your services on your hardware. Now don't get
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📢UPDATE: 06/08/2022 - New 18TB HAT5310 HDD added to the list. Also, the new specs of the whole series have been added. 📢UPDATE: 8/4/2022 - New 4TB HAT5300 HDD is coming soon (May 11th, 2022) to fill in the existing lineup. 📢UPDATE: 27/08/2021 -
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When you say Active Directory in 99% of the time, one name comes to mind, Microsoft. I'm sure that people reading this article are here for a reason, and are aware of the mentioned name, and what it means. In case you are not here is the TL;
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UPDATE: 19/3/2021 - Today Synology announced they will retire their Cloud Station suite on DSM (not SRM) as of April 30th, 2021 A few months back Synology had announced 3rd party DEV materials that are needed for 3rd party support of various apps. Today I would like to
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📢UPDATE: 15/12/2021 - Active Backup for Business v2.2.1-12074 works with Windows 11 (21H2 22000.318) Also, restoring that backup as a virtual machine inside ESXi v7, and Synology Virtual Machine Manager, was successful. 📢UPDATE: 02/06/2021 - added new information on ABB data transfer compression
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After two delays Cyberpunk 2077 is finally here! From the developers that brought the Witcher franchise for us, now comes a futuristic 1st person RPG. I have been waiting a long time for this game (as we all did right?), and have managed to stay away from all the spoilers,
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UPDATE (not 100% verified): 16/4/21 - There are some indications that we might get another update in the next few months, but there are also news (again unofficial) that Syno might push for a summer 2021 final realease (from Syno support chat). Still to be verified. UPDATE: 27/
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UPDATE: 04/08/2021 - Drive v3 is officially out of the "beta channel". You will get a "out-of-date" notification that will require you to update the Drive server and client apps to the new version. After you update your server side, your Drive clients will