I want to migrate my client's environment from drop box to SharePoint Online without using third party tools.
Can somebody guide me through the free tools that are available and also which other approaches exist.
I tried using Migration Manager creating drobox account however I am getting below error.
Just to clarify upon your issue, I opened up a free account in DropBox and I tried to create a connection within the Migration Manager Service, as it is described in the documentation.
I also got the error that you had:
Based on which I believe that it is required of you to have purchased an Enterprise Dropbox Account and that the free edition of DropBox is not supported, since you need an account that will be Dropbox administrator account to link with your Microsoft 365 migration.
As an alternative you could sync the DropBox Account Contents onto a File Storage and set up a Migrations Manager File Share Connection in order to upload all of the contents.
I have an SSIS project opened in Visual Studio 2012 Data Tools, and it uses several connections to source- and destination databases. We have a domain service account that has access to these data sources.
How can I configure the connection managers inside VSDT to use that service account?
I must use integrated security, because the source database doesn't accept mixed-mode authentications and I must run VSDT under my own domain user to avoid conflicts with TFS.
Answering your question - you cannot. In Connection Manager you either use integrated security with underlying account or login/password for mixed security.
Workaround for your situation. Develop packages, build and commit in VSDT under your account. For testing only run another copy of VSDT under designated service account; this account should have enough privileges to open your SSIS project and run it.
I have a Win32 application written in VB6 that uses an MS Access database as its data file.
I have about 30 clients who use this application. Each currently has it setup in their local network. Some clients have a Terminal Server for staff to access their network remotely.
A number of my clients are inquiring about the possibility of using the application in the cloud.
I am considering the possibility of ultimately making the application web based in some form, however that will take many months to do. So, in the meantime, I am looking for suggestions as to how clients could run this application in the "cloud".
Would it be possible to run it using Microsoft Azure in some way?
I am also wondering whether I could rent a Virtual Private Server myself, and then set it up to allow multiple clients to connect to it (with each using their own individual data file). My main question around this option is whether there would be additional license costs for users who need to connect (eg. like the old Terminal Services "Client Access Licenses").
One function of the application is that users are able to "attach" electronic files (word documents, pdf's etc) to file notes. These "attachments" are stored in a subfolder of the data file location (ie they are not stored in the data file). So the solution must be able to support uploading local documents to the "cloud" service.
Any ideas would be most welcome.
Many thanks,
Rohan
You could try it with "Virtual Machine" feature of MS Azure.
Acces portal.azure.com
In the left navigation bar, choose "Virtual Machine"
Click "Add", type "windows" into the search field & press
Enter
Choose the Windows VM you want
Connect, upload your VB6 app & test it...
Please be inform that some Windows VMs require MSDN subscription or cost very much.
The Azure feature you are looking for is likely Azure RemoteApp. It allows for desktop applications to be installed in the Azure "cloud" and then used by users from any device using Remote Desktop Services functionality. This way you can control the environment where the application is installed, and not have to configure every users device; which is especially helpful with older legacy applications like VB6 apps.
https://www.remoteapp.windowsazure.com/en/
EDIT: Unfortunately on August 12, 2016 Microsoft announced they are discontinuing Azure Remote App. New purchases of RemoteApp will be discontinued October 1, 2016, and the service will be replaced with an offering from Citrix called Citrix XenApp Express.
I think you should simply create a virtual server for each of your clients. Do not create 1 virtual server for everyone, that will be a nightmare and very insecure for client data.
The clients would still just access over terminal services or Remote Desktop as they have before, just the server is now in the cloud.
Then you can bill each client for the what you are charged for their server.
RUN EXCEL/ACCESS DATABASE ON THE CLOUD WITHOUT PROGRAMMING!
I can solve your problem without using Azure or similar. We would first convert your Excel/Access database to a Progen4GL-based applications, which will then run on the cloud. See downloads on www.progencloud.com.
If you can, send us a similar Access/Excel file. We will convert it to a Progen4GL database that you can run the on the cloud with full read/write access. As Progen4GL reads in Access/Excel files without programming, we can do it for your for nothing. It takes only a few minutes for the to conversion to a Progen4GL Database. We will return it to you as a Cloud application. See Progen DataOWL on www.progencloud.com and try it yourself. You will need some help from us to run it on the Cloud as the website doesn't have full details.
Ravi Raizada raviraiz#aol.com
www.progencloud.com
I have created an Azure VM for the purpose of testing a new installation process for my software. The VM is using Windows 10 Preview.
Yesterday I uploaded an ISO file which contained our software plus installers for SQL Server Express (various editions). (About 1.8 gb)
I ran our custom setup program which installs SQL express, restores a new user database, adds firewall exceptions etc. etc.
This morning I cannot RDP into that VM. The connection is made, but when I attempt to login, I am simply returned to the Windows Security Dialog, with the message "Your credentials did not work..."
I know I am typing the password correctly, I have double checked things like typos in the user name and password, Caps Lock is not on ;-) and so on.
This happened to a VM I had set up last week too, after a similar test and after attempting various options including resetting credentials using Powershell (found here) I accepted that I must have forgotten the password or done something wrong, so I started again.
Now the same things has happened I am wondering if that level of activity (uploading 1.8gb then running a setup which retrieved and installed .Net runtime 3.5) on an Azure VM that runs under an MSDN Premium subscription Azure account, caused the user account to be locked out for a period of time - have I hit some limit of uploads to that machine or activity or some other limit I'm not aware of?
I am working on an application that uses the automation interface to work with Office documents. This application will be run on a Windows Server environment which is accessed by clients using RDP (Remote Desktop). In order for Office to work from RDP, it needs to be activated with a Terminal Services license key. If Office is not licensed in this way, I need to show an error to the user.
My question is: how can I detect if Office is activated with a Terminal Services license key? I tried using ospp.vbs and slmgr.vbs but I couldn't find a way to detect if Office is activated with a Terminal Services license.