Tips & Tricks
Configuring Hardware Keys (e.g. Yubikey, Feitain) for passwordless login in myDRE
Overview This guide explains how to set up a hardware key like YubiKey (Series 5 or any FIDO2-compliant security key) for passwordless login to the myDRE portal. Using a hardware key enhances your account security and simplifies your login process. ...
Zipping files for quick up-/download
When you want to up- or download a lot of files or whole folder structures at once to/from your workspace, compressing the data into a single file (e.g., zip) is highly recommended. There are a few things you need to take into account when doing ...
E-mail notification before auto-shutdown triggers
Introduction By default, all DRE VMs will be automatically shut down at 19:00 UCT +01:00 (Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, etc). This auto-shutdown is there to prevent you from incurring unnecessary costs because you forgot to deallocate the VM(s). The ...
Change the timezone in a VM
Generally this is not something you want to do! Consider the following: an Azure VM is allocated to you. This VM is not running locally, but runs in a Microsoft Azure Data Center. It is common practice to use UTC-time for cloud resources, this ...
Using the Azure Portal
DRE is suitable for any type of user. However, perhaps you already have lots of IT experience and you know your way around Azure. That's when it might be interesting to know that you can also access your workspace resources through the Azure Portal. ...