Recent weekly updates
2022-W03 anDREa Update
Microsoft Industry Circle Event about anDREa On Tuesday January 18th, Microsoft West Europe organized a large webinar event about enabling collaborative research in the Microsoft Azure cloud. This event highlighted the services of anDREa with an ...
2022-W01 anDREa Update
First of all: happy new year and the best whishes for you all. May it be a healthy and productive 2022! Follow announcements via Telegram Important Announcements: https://t.me/+X7HkVDGZFGYzMTM0 Important announcements regarding myDRE. This will only ...
2021-W52 anDREa Update
It has been an impressive year. It is wonderful to reflect back on the things we have achieved, even while our ambitions were higher :-). Support Maybe one of the most impressive accomplishments is in the support. anDREa decided to go with their ...
2021-W51 anDREa Update
Last weekly update from anDREa in 2021 The current year has been an exciting year for anDREa. Quite some researchers have been using the platform since the researchenvironment.org days, the DRE on the Radboudumc Azure cloud. In March 2021, mydre.org ...
2021-W50 anDREa Update
myDRE NOT vulnerable for CVE-2021-4428 - Apache Log4J2 Apache Log4j is a Java-based logging utility. It was found to harbor a vulnerability to attackers. anDREa does not use Apache Log4J2 or forks in production, hence the myDRE platform and ...
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. Read more at: My Workspace is visible ...
2021-W47 update from anDREa
End of year cleaning To enhance security of the DRE platform the number of Workspaces in an Azure subscription must be 100 max. The Azure subscription to which one or more of your Workspaces belongs exceeds 100. Just over 90 Workspaces need to be ...
2021-W46 update from anDREa
Issues in mydre.org portal post-deployment Last week we experienced issues post-deployment after pushing improvements to production. Unfortunately, we encountered a few issues regarding VM access, data egress, and Linux VMs. The full announcement can ...
2021-W45 update from anDREa
Production deployment moved to week 46 Due to an unforeseen issue we were unable to deploy scripts to all the VMs that is needed to separate Inbox and the Share. This will happen over de weekend of the 2021-11-12, you won't notice this. If everything ...
2021-W44 update from anDREa
In the update of this week, there are the following topics: Heads up on new functionalities in Week 45 *** Invitation to participate in the Community section *** Change the time zone in a VM - possible, but think thrice *** Virus Scanning *** ...
2021-W42 update from anDREa
In this weeks update there are the following topics: ISO 27001 *** Does anDREa have access to data? *** Offboarding and Exit Strategy ISO 27001 On 2021-10-29 anDREa BV will be internally audited by an external party for ISO 27001. Nicely in time for ...
2021-W41 update from anDREa
Global Microsoft Azure outage Last Wednesday (October 13th 2021), news reached us that Windows Virtual Machines (VMs) could not be created, deleted or switched on. As you may or may not know, the myDRE platform is built on Microsoft Azure. Therefore, ...
2021-W40 update from anDREa
anDREa BV and ISO 27001 In many of the documents that can be found in the Knowledge Base or via ISO 27001 - Overview you will read: anDREa is committed to protecting the security of its business information in the face of incidents and unwanted ...
2021-W39 update from anDREa
myDRE & Security by Sarang Before you read this section: myDRE is not vulnerable to the threat below, your data and account is well protected against the threat below. From time to time scary articles pop-up like: New Azure Active Directory password ...
2021-W38 update from anDREa
Outlook till end of 2021/beginning of 2022 We've just started a new Sprint, so from a technical side there is not much to report. So a good time to share the high-level objectives for the near future. Priority till end of 2021/beginning of 2022 ...
2021-W37 update from anDREa
Introduction Features, bug fixes, and improvements This week a number of features, bug fixes, and improvements will be pushed to production. Click here for the details. What happened to andrea-consortium.org? anDREa website can be found ...
2021-W35 update from anDREa
General anDREa has an opening for a UX expert for redesigning myDRE.org. In the past week we have been setting up requirements for the new user interface and we are currently talking with a potential partner for UX/UI expert position. We also have ...
2021-W34 Update from anDREa
General Holidays affect the development capacity, but we're moving nicely forward. The good thing is that Microsoft sent us an Azure Sponsorship Offer that will help to move some backend improvements forward. One such thing is multi-region support. ...
2021-W33 Update from anDREa
This should be the first of many where we will update you on released and upcoming features, things that are happening at anDREa, etc. Recently added features/improvements Type Description Bug Daily snapshot missing on some of the new and migrated ...
Popular Articles
Activating your new @mydre.org account
Before you can access your DRE workspace(s) at mydre.org, you need to activate your @mydre.org account. Below, we explain the steps in this activation process, along with screenshots for illustration. Prerequisite: your new @mydre.org username, along ...
R and RStudio using External Access rules
This method of downloading R packages is outdated! This article will not be updated any longer. IP addresses are often subject to change. Therefore, the domain allowlisting feature has been introduced and it is self-service for Accountable and ...
Atlas.ti
Older versions of Atlas.ti will show the option to validate your license offline. Unfortunately, this procedure no longer works. You can still use Atlas.ti by allowlisting the domain atlasti.com, as explained under Step 2 in Validating your Atlas.ti ...
Python, Anaconda and JupyterLab
With domain allowlisting now being a self-service feature, this is the preferred option. For proxy settings in Anaconda in combination with domain allowlisting, please follow this article: ...
Proxy configurations Anaconda
First version: 2022-10-31 Latest version: 2023-11-16 Last change(s): Clarification in the introduction; clarifying instructions; added screenshots. This is a community effort. The article was created by the anDREa Support Team in their spare time. If ...