2021-W48 anDREa Update

2021-W48 anDREa Update

Some users may see their Workspace twice

As part of upgrading features, we must move some Workspaces to another Azure subscription, owned by the same client. All affected Owners have already received an e-mail.


Bug - Transfer of large files (>100 GB) between workspaces

Situation

As Owner of Workspace A you'd like to transfer >100GB to Workspace B (you are Owner or Member of Workspace B), this results in:
  1. 0 KB file being transferred.
This does not happen when:
  1. Transfer request <100GB
  2. The requestor is Member

Background

Once a workspace-to-workspace transfer is requested by an Owner, the data request will have the status Approved (file copy pending). This means that the transfer is already approved while the file is still being copied to a blob container before being transferred to the target workspace. Azure has no way of letting us know when the copying process is done, so the code was built to ask Azure every 15 seconds if the copying is done for 30 minutes max. Because copying of more than 100 GB takes longer than 30 minutes, a timeout is triggered and results in a 0 KB file being transferred.

Status bug

This bug is being worked on and the maximum time will be increased to 2 hours, so that about 500 GB files can also be transferred. Currently this is being reviewed and tested.

Workaround

For Workspace to Workspace transfers >100GB, do the request via somebody with the role Member in the source Workspace.
If there's no-one available to request this, please create a ticket and one of the support team members will assist in this matter.

Access Control of Workspaces

Last Tuesday somebody asked if I could do a quick demo of how myDRE works. I took one of the Workspaces I work in and showed a few things. One of the things I showed how easy it was to add/remove a person. For this I took the account of colleague I knew. What harm is there to add/remove somebody before they can even access the Workspace?

The bad
  1. Never-ever invite a person in a Workspace who has no business in that Workspace.
The good
  1. All the owners of that Workspace got an email that this user was added
  2. One of the owners started to ask questions
Note to myself:
  1. Use a demo workspace
  2. Or, do the reverse: remove an existing member, and add this person back.
  3. Drop the idea in Feature Requests - Ideas

Let yourself be heard

There is a Community section on support.mydre.org.  Feel free to post Feature Requests and Ideas.
Tip / invite to participate
  1. If you have ideas, feature requests, post them in: myDRE | Feature Requests - Ideas Community


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