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Remote Office VPN
BlackBox:
We work remotely from home, or like the owner who's now out of State at his cabin for a couple of weeks, using RDP/RD Web through our RDSH (fka Terminal Server).
This makes it easy for anyone to work wherever they are, and they're remoting directly into their physical workstation so they're not relegated to their home computer's system resources/performance for Civil 3D (we don't use Revit, but since it's just like sitting at your office desk, shouldn't be an issue?), which also minimizes how many licenses we need, and because they're basically streaming pixels it's low overhead on the network & still fast on their end when at a far distance from the physical office... Besides, this also makes it easy for us to cut anyone off at any time, if/when there is a change in staff.
All of this is built-into Windows Server, so as long as your server sits behind a security appliance, etc the only thing you'll possibly need to pay for are CALs (if you didn't already have them).
ronjonp:
VPN here through Unifi Gateway. It's worked pretty well for us, but we're a small company of only 8 employees ( 5 of which work remote regularly ).
Has anyone tried Google File Stream? Supposedly it's like Google Drive Sync but you don't have to cache all the data on the network.
MickD:
--- Quote from: Jeff H on August 04, 2021, 02:18:22 PM ---What do you guys use so people can work on AutoCAD files from two separate offices?
Will we have problems using Revit worksets using VPN from server to revote office?
--- End quote ---
When I was working for a large engineering office we did a lot of work for BlueScope Steel (used to be BHP) and they had a good system* in that we had to 'check out' drawings to do changes or any work on them. This allowed us to download a drawing or drawing package and work on them locally to do the changes etc. Once checked out there was only read-only access to the files and they were marked as 'WIP' or similar to inform the user they were checked out for changes.
Once the job was done and everything signed off you 'checked in' the drawing/s to the main repo.
For this office we had our own local server with backups etc but this could be done at home with a personal cloud repo to keep backups just in case.
The point is, having a VPN for use as a repo/server is ok but it won't guarantee who's working on what when etc.
Is Autodesk Vault still a thing? Maybe that is a possible solution?
*In theory at least, it was Citrix and the UI/UX was terrible!
Lonnie:
--- Quote from: MickD on August 05, 2021, 07:54:36 PM ---
The point is, having a VPN for use as a repo/server is ok but it won't guarantee who's working on what when etc.
Is Autodesk Vault still a thing? Maybe that is a possible solution?
*In theory at least, it was Citrix and the UI/UX was terrible!
--- End quote ---
Vault is still a thing but it's really on the expensive side. (For this sort of thing.) It's now sql I believe and blobs the files. (http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=56913.0;topicseen). Bently's Projectwise is likewise a thing. Once again expensive. If all your doing is a checkout system there are several out there at decent prices. Sharepoint (yuck yuck patooeee) comes to mind if you.
What are you trying to do? I was under the impression you were trying to work as a single office running the files from a central location. This too is possible with a little pain.
JohnK:
Instead of Vault you can use any old Version Control system (Fossil would be a good choice).
Here was an initial concept thread I created a while ago.
https://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=47004.0
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