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Can’t Migrate Your File Server to SharePoint?

Want to supercharge remote worker productivity, but...

Compliance or security concerns force you to keep data on-premise?

Legacy apps won’t let you retire your file servers?

Too much data to migrate — and the cloud costs are just too high?

You’ve tried and failed with SharePoint migration in the past?

When employees work from home or remote locations, it's very convenient to use SharePoint in Microsoft 365 to access company files and collaborate. However, there are many situations where you simply can not use SharePoint. Or you may have tried unsuccessfully to migrate file servers to SharePoint and are now looking for an alternative way to support your remote workers. Of course, you can still use VPN and RDP to provide remote file access to employees who work from home. But VPN and RDP have their own problems.

There's a better way if SharePoint is not working for you.

Status Quo?

Modernizing file server access while maintaining existing infrastructure

You can't use SharePoint for the above reasons, so you use VPN and RDP to access company file servers. But you want SharePoint-like features including offline access, web browser interface, mobile access, and modern collaboration tools.

Offline Access and Editing

OneDrive allows synchronization for offline access and editing. This enables remote work where WiFi is limited or corporate firewalls are congested, maintaining productivity regardless of connection quality.

No VPN Dependency

VPN/RDP requires stable connections - any interruption disrupts work. SharePoint avoids these issues by not depending on VPN, providing more reliable remote access without connection headaches.

Cloud Portal Integration

As a cloud application, SharePoint integrates with enterprise portals using SSO (Azure AD, OneLogin, Okta, Duo) and can be protected by Zero Trust solutions like Microsoft Application Proxy.

Drive Mapping & File Locking

While SharePoint has drawbacks, users miss drive mapping for external references (XREFS) and request better file locking features and NTFS permission integration found in traditional file servers.

Case Studies

CASE STUDY #1 Security and Compliance

NBFC needs a shared storage solution that is not in the public cloud. NBFC needs a shared storage solution, comparable to SharePoint from an end-user perspective, for its external employees and contractors. The storage solution must first integrate with a single sign-on solution and be subject to regular certification audits and must meet certain compliance and regulatory requirements.

In this case, SharePoint is well suited for the general public, but not for organizations that have higher security requirements and compliance regulations. In the end, NBFC uses its own VMWare infrastructure to set up a self-hosted file-sharing solution that resembles SharePoint.

NBFC Case Study
ONEIL Case Study

CASE STUDY #2 Compatibility with CAD software

Pogue Construction needs to support field technicians working from job sites

Pogue Construction has field technicians working from job sites where the WLAN is too sporadic to establish a stable VPN or RDP connection to the company file server. It needs to provide offline file access capabilities like SharePoint provides online. However, the CAD software they use is not compatible with SharePoint because the external file reference (XREF) works on file servers but not in SharePoint. Another reason to keep the data on the current file server is that the data set is too large to transfer to SharePoint.

CASE STUDY #3 Healthcare MSP & Compliance

DedicatedIT needs remote file access solution to help healthcare clients

DedicatedIT is an MSP whose customer base is 80% healthcare. The majority of customers who can move to SharePoint have actually moved to SharePoint. However, there are also customers who cannot have a SharePoint-only conversation due to existing EMR systems and specific healthcare compliance requirements. Originally, these customers had to log in via RDP to connect. Now they have an easier way to access their files and folders with the same user credentials and the same NTFS permissions that protect those files and folders..

NBFC Case Study
ONEIL Case Study

CASE STUDY #4 Adobe Creative Suite compatibility

Hoffman York needs support for employees who work from home

Hoffman York is a marketing agency that has needed to support employees who work from home since the outbreak of the pandemic. They had considered using SharePoint, but files created with Photoshop, InDesign, and Premiere have a large footprint on the file server that can not be easily migrated to the cloud, with the apps' compatibility with Adobe Creative Suite uncertain. Originally, employees used RDP to access Adobe Creative Suite. However, due to VPN "crowding," many employees were getting kicked out of the corporate firewall every hour or so. They needed a better solution, and they found one.

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What can NFC Vault do for you?

NFC Vault extends existing Windows file servers with secure remote access, mobile file sharing, data protection, and cloud migration while meeting business needs for security, privacy, compliance, and control. NFC Vault increases the productivity of your mobile workforce without sacrificing data ownership, privacy, and security

WHAT DO WE DO?

We offer a solution to these problems

VPN ISSUES

Have you spent many hours troubleshooting VPN connections?

MOBILE NEEDS

Do you have employees who work from home and need mobile file access via a web browser?

DATA SPRAWL

Did you have two or more data stores to manage, but they were getting out of control?

IMPLEMENTATION

Have lengthy cloud migrations, additional user training, and compliance regulations held you back?