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.
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
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UPDATE: 29/06/2021 - added YT video for C2 Identity (renamed from C2 Directory) Offering a FREE plan with: * Up to 250 user accounts * SSO support (for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365) * 1 Local LDAP server support * Up to 10 client devices Along with Synology Directory Server and LDAP
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Since Dec 31th 2019 when Synology first announced DSM 7 preview, much has changed. On Sep 8th, 2020 we had hands-on with the first version of DSM7, and already then it was stable. Initial upgrades and user feedbacks were very positive. So what does this new version of Disk Station
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UPDATE 09/12/2020 - info regarding 3rd party app supports published by Synology https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/Third_Party/supported_third_party_packages_beta UPDATE: 08/12/2020 - new DSM 7 - 41222 beta is live! More info here! In my general DSM7 article