New Features Introduced in Portal 8.3.3300.8
New Dashboard
The dashboard has been redone to provide more portal monitoring as well as a section detailing the new features.
The Notifications section has been changed to provide the same look and feel that the edge filer administrator has.
You can hide the new features to display the following:
- Users and devices registered on the portal.
- The number of files and folders and the cloud storage used.
- An overview of either the storage or folder type over time.
- A summary of the number of users and new users over time.
- A summary of the number of files over time.
- A summary of what is licensed and the license quotas and current use and what is remaining.
- License usage over the last week showing both the provisioned licenses and actual licenses in use for the cloud drive or for edge filers.
Folder and Subfolder Quota Management
Folder and subfolder quotas can now be managed centrally, automatically propagating changes to all connected edge filers.
Quota management is only applied to edge filers connected to the portal that use the next generation file system. The CTERA Messaging service must be enabled to manage cloud drive folder quotas. However, it is not required to manage subfolder quotas.
File Types that Support Global File Locking
You can edit the Supported file types list with the file types you want locked.
All files in the folder with an extension in the Supported file types list are locked when opened for editing so that only one user at a time can edit the file. Locking applies to files that were already in the folder when the locking was applied as well as to files added to the folder after locking is applied. A message is displayed that the file can be opened only for viewing when other users try to open a locked file.
Zones are Enabled By Default
Additional improvements to standardize the look and feel. For example, to manage a storage node.
Continued Improvements to the Look and Feel
Additional improvements to standardize the look and feel. For example, to manage a storage node.
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Upload Only File Sharing Permission
A new permission has been added to file sharing, via public links and collaboration: Upload Only, set in Managing Collaboration. Upload Only share recipients are able to upload content to the folder but cannot see any of the content that is in the folder.
New Features Introduced in Portal 8.3.3000.12
CTERA Portal version 8.3.3000.12 includes a number of new features for team portal administrators:
New Look and Feel
The team administrator portal user interface has been modernized. For example:
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Global File Locking
When files are shared by users CTERA provides, in addition to conflict file handling, the option to lock files. Cloud drive folders can be configured so that only one user at a time can access the file for editing and the file will be locked for all other users.
- The CTERA Portal must be licensed for global file locking.
- Global file locking requires that the CTERA Edge Filers are version 7.11.4900.11 or later.
For details about configuring file locking, see Configuring a Folder with File Locking.
Deprecated Features
Features that are not supported have been removed, such as:
- Local backup log.
- The Applications configuration template.