Tips & Tricks
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. ...
Multi Monitor Support
Though it is possible to edit the downloaded RDP-file for multi-monitor support, it is a bit of a pain to do it every time. If you have more than two monitors, two might suffice and the other(s) can be used for searching on internet, or other ...
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This method of downloading R packages is outdated!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 ...