News: vBoxxCloud version 2.0 is now live!
Published: 26/06/2014
vBoxxCloud version v2.0.0.563 is now live and a lot of features are updated!
Release Notes:
File locking
Users can now place locks on files and folders within Team Shares! Locks are global and prevent all other users from making changes to files that were locked.
- Admins can lock/unlock files and folders regardless of organisational policy
- The desktop sync client can prompt users to lock Word and Excel documents that they open within a Team Share:
- This auto-lock feature can be turned off and on at the ‘Edit Team Share’ page (off by default)
- Included a button on the Team Share page to bulk enable auto-locking on Team Shares
- Word for Mac & .xls are currently not supported
- Unless specified in hard-lock extension list (description below), locks are ‘soft’ in that they still allow users to make changes locally
- Locked files will get a lock icon overlay
- Unwarranted changes (renames, deletes, updates, moves, etc) will not upload until a lock is removed
- Offending users will be notified via a systray notification and an exclamation mark icon overlay
- Added hard-lock (file-system enforced locks) for specific extensions:
- Extensions are defined at the organisation policy level and are: .doc,.docx,.xls,.xlsx,.ppt,.pptx,.pdf,.txt,.xlsb,.xlsm,.csv,.docm,.dotx,.dotm,.pub,.wpd,.odt,.ott,.oth,.odm,.ots,.odp,.odg,.otp,.odf,.oxt,.odc,.ods,.vdx,.vsx,.vtx,.one
- On Windows, hard locks are implemented by setting the following DENY ACE for the EVERYONE SID:
- Create files/write data
- Create folders/append data
- Write attributes
- Write extended attributes
- Delete
- On OSX, we set the UF_IMMUTABLE flag (essentially user lock)
- Added functionality to desktop client to correct permissions on locked/previously-locked files
- From Windows desktop client GUI, under the Advanced tab, push Ctrl+Alt+C to show "Correct Locks" button
- On OSX agents, select ⌘+Option+C to show "Correct Locks" button
Download as .ZIP
- Users now have the ability to download folders as a .ZIP file from the web portal by right-clicking any folder and selecting ‘Download ZIP’
- Empty subfolders will not be included in the .ZIP download
- vBoxxCloud strip characters outside of extended ASCII in files and folders when creating the ZIP file
Revision Rollback
- Users can rollback all files within an entire root or folder to their revisions before a certain date
- Provides great protection against CryptoLocker-like viruses
- Users have the ability to select a specific date and time or just restore by date
- Example: If a Team Share was infected on June 23rd at 9:00AM, user would select the restore time to be June 23rd, 8:59AM to restore all files before the infection happened
Note: Clock is set to 24 hour and is based off the time zone of the vBoxxCloud server
Enhancements/Fixes:
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Shares |
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API |
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Organisation Policies |
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Dashboard and Web Portal |
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